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Originally Posted by thekeip
How's this sound....I have a recent model HP 15'' laptop. On it I run Fugawi ENC with the chart of San Francisco Bay. Also, I have my wife's old Garmin "GPS Map 12" plugged in too...need MY positional data...; pluged in the SR 162 AIS receiver ( plug the Garmin into the SR and it will take care of the baud and data merge for you), and...Presto!
I see just what Traffic Control sees, real time. Actual cost was < $800.
Howard Keiper
Berkeley |
Thanks for the info Keip.
I am going to look into this. We have a dedicated
Chartplotter at the helm and when long distance cruising I back that up at the Nav Station with our PC. I run Maptech Navigator Lite and use a USB
GPS for our position.
I will be looking into the AIS receiver and running that in conjunction with the PC software and USB. Sounds cheaper than investing in a new Plotter/Display as my current plotter will not support an AIS receiver and we already have the PC.
Thanks again.