Class B AIS, the name game
This weekend I’m working on a PMY column about Class B AIS, and now have three transponders up and running, which you’ll hear about it. But I also went over my notes and audio recording…
Yearly Archive: 2008
SPOT gone mega, and FLIBS
Check out the full screen shot for a modern take on the noon position. The world’s largest NMEA 2000 network, i.e. the yacht Sandrine, is experimenting with…
Class B installs #1, Brookhouse solution
A nice thing about Class B AIS transponders, I think, is that by regulation they include a GPS and thus they deliver “own vessel position” along with AIS target info to whatever displays they feed. But that can present an issue if…
Maltese Falcon vs Nordic 40, the tonnage rule
AIS is great, but it’s just a tool to help a skipper mind the rules of the road, including the “tonnage rule” being violated above in San Francisco Bay last week…
Garmin nüvi 500 & GPSMap 640, yipe!
How behind is Panbo? Well, in July I whined about Garmin’s introduction of the touchscreen Oregon handheld before I’d yet written much about the somewhat similar Colorado. While I’ve been testing…
Electronic Marlin teasers, who knew?
What can’t be improved with electronics? Hence the battery going up the hind end of the Sevenstrand Electronic Acoustic Lure above. The idea is…
AIS Class B, really on the map
Check the stats! They indicate that at one moment earlier today one particular network of AIS coastal receivers was seeing 763 AIS Class A transponders from scattered towers around the U.S. And one Class B. Guess whose 5 meter pleasure (and electronics testing) vessel that was?
The Wizard, prize-worthy antenna magic?
How about a 5” square “multi-band bisynchronous simultaneous reception and transmission ” antenna that doesn’t need to be mast-mounted and can handle frequencies from AM and shortwave through FM and VHF and up into cellular, GPS, sat phones, and WiFi…three radios at once?!?
Navionics Mobile, & other iPhone apps
It’s come to my attention that not every Panbo reader is obsessed with AIS! So how about a new charting app for the iPhone? That would be Navionics Mobile, which was just introduced…
Navico NAIS-300 Class B, FCC certified!
Wow, the Class B AIS story is moving fast. If I’m understanding the FCC Equipment Authorization database correctly (select “AIS” from the “Equipment Class” drop-down list), last Friday, 10/3/2008, Navico added one last submission to its NAIS-300 application—the photo above—and the unit was certified that very day, along with…
