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Forum: Marine Electronics 05-07-2016, 19:08
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

Just been looking at traffic in Gulf of Aden... quite a few un-named warships on AIS and also.... ships which have... under 'destination'.. 'Armed guard aboard'.

So... I have plan that cunning you...
Forum: Marine Electronics 04-07-2016, 19:29
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

Australia and Unzud take boat people very seriously....

You would be surprised how many boats get caught trying to bring in cocaine and stuff.

Quite a few years ago, in NZ, I was advised it is...
Forum: Marine Electronics 03-07-2016, 17:42
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

Can't you see me waving?

The GE pic is pretty much up to date... the presence of both my boat and 'Lojan' ( due east on the outside...with a bowsprit... I'm currently babysitting their dog) puts...
Forum: Marine Electronics 03-07-2016, 16:24
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

I have just had a looksee at Bass Strait ... pretty much all terrestrial are 2 to 3 minutes. Long delay often means station has shut down after arrival etc.
Found an interesting one up by Lakes...
Forum: Marine Electronics 03-07-2016, 15:06
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

What Chris said at 73 :thumb:

And also...
these new AIS-Sarts only transmit at 1W and the antennas are that short I reckon they would be near omni-directional...
Forum: Marine Electronics 03-07-2016, 07:41
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

I would venture that 99% of the ships that are being reliably received by the sats have bog standard vertical AIS ants...

Why don't your parents just buy an ordinary VHF ant. Mine is a basic GME...
Forum: Marine Electronics 03-07-2016, 07:20
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

Well, Yes, I would still be impressed. But I wont be paying.. even if it were to be only $100 a year because I don't have the 'need ' for all that info.

Also, I don't feel the 'need' to tell the...
Forum: Marine Electronics 01-07-2016, 10:01
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

If your boat were to go off with a very loud bang one day S-AIS records may be all they have.

With simple yotreps position reporting via HF I have found it quite 'flakey' ... quite often gaps of...
Forum: Marine Electronics 01-07-2016, 09:46
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

Marinetraffic was set up about 10 years ago by a Greek university. https://www.marinetraffic.com/blog/a-day-in-numbers/?utm_campaign=June-2016-newsletter&utm_medium=email-link&utm_source=newsletter...
Forum: Marine Electronics 30-06-2016, 11:48
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

Ping's First Law of Probability says the odds are very good.
Forum: Marine Electronics 30-06-2016, 11:19
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

Chris, I could just see unnamed 'sat ' ones... no details, no track. ... before signing up for the free trial.

Now I get the works...almost.

Interesting that even the 'empty bits' of ocean are...
Forum: Marine Electronics 30-06-2016, 08:55
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

Good stuff...
So not all class B AIS is created equal...
'Class B SO: Shipborne AIS transceiver (transmits and receives) which operates using SOTDMA. Class B SO must have an integrated display,...
Forum: Marine Electronics 30-06-2016, 06:55
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

I've just had a bit of a look at big ships in the North Pacific and North Atlantic...pretty much everything seems to be at 15 to 16 hours and some out to 19 hours so expect there is a bit of...
Forum: Marine Electronics 30-06-2016, 06:40
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

If you read the link at #11 it seems that sat monitoring of Epirbs started in about 2010 when they had one sat up.... that looks pretty new at my age.

To quote a bit of it

'Each satellite...
Forum: Marine Electronics 29-06-2016, 18:16
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

I don't for one... two many creditors/ex-lovers/angry husbands trying to track me down :)

However I am fascinated by the technology.

I don't think too many will be stumping up the $3000+ a year...
Forum: Marine Electronics 29-06-2016, 16:31
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

And if you really want to know what Wayne and Kathy are up to......
Forum: Marine Electronics 29-06-2016, 16:22
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

No probs Ben

The third one is a US flag boat , Lady Arisha, doing an east bound passage to Panama or wherever....
Forum: Marine Electronics 29-06-2016, 11:20
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

Ben,
It seems even though I have cancelled I still get the 14 days free trial , it simply doesn't move on to a paid conscription, so shoot me the name of your parents' boat and I'll see what it...
Forum: Marine Electronics 29-06-2016, 11:12
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

OK...somebody had to be the bunny....
Just signed up for the 14 free trial.... had a looksee and then cancelled...you wouldn't want to forget to cancel...after 14 days it automatically takes...
Forum: Marine Electronics 28-06-2016, 17:03
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

Back in Feb the only position reports I was giving to the world at large was via Yotreps.

However half way between NZ and Chile the Chilean MRCC emailed me via Sailmail ( they would already have...
Forum: Marine Electronics 28-06-2016, 10:13
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

I thought I would check it out with a 30 day free trial of Premium...however.... premium doesn't give you the sat details... you need the all bells and whistles one to get that at $365 a month...
Forum: Marine Electronics 28-06-2016, 09:52
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

Hmmmm... well in that link they say than can monitor 1000's at a time and offshore yachts would be a small poprtion of the total
"Each satellites continually receives AIS signals from all ships in...
Forum: Marine Electronics 28-06-2016, 08:26
Replies: 85
Views: 8,273
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Satelite AIS.

According to this ( posted on another thread ) the answer is 'yes'.
https://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/BMW%202010_files/AIS-SART%20SeaTrials-BMW_JKing_21May10.pdf
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