Year: 2012
76 posts
AIS BASE STATION
Monitoring vessel movements from the shore is useful not just for friends and family but also for security and…
Class A AIS Package For Workboats and Other Commercial Vessels
Class A AIS transponders are frequently being installed on smaller vessels who want the security and performance…
AIS Man Over Board Systems
In 2010, the IMO approved the use of AIS SARTs as an alternative to the traditional Radar SARTS. An AIS SART…
Using Digital Yacht AIS units with OpenCPN
We get a lot of questions from users of OpenCPN, the popular Open Source navigation software, on how to get…
Using a PC at Night – Screen Dimmer
For yachtsmen who have struggled to use a PC at the chart table on a night time passage, with the glare of the…
NMEA 0183 Display Program
NMEA 0183 has become the most widely adopted standard for data communication in the Marine industry. Based on…
Good AIS Etiquette – Fitting a Silence Switch
As the number of vessels with an AIS Transponder increases, yachtsmen should seriously consider fitting their…
CLB2000 Class B For The Commercial Market
We just launched a new commercial grade, Class B AIS transponder. Called the CLB2000, it has been specifically…