Flash: forum on Ft. Lauderdale show
As those of you in the industry no doubt know, there’s a lot of talk going around about the wisdom of trying to run the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show next Thursday, a week late....
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Class B AIS, part 2
Today, I’m afraid, we must speak of “frequency agility.” Part of the Class A standard is that transponders must be able to change channels if ordered to by the presiding local coastal authority. The digital command is received...
Class B AIS, the devil’s in the details, part 1
Finally I have some specifics about the Class B AIS transponder standard, which is “very close” to finalization: • Like Class A, static data will be broadcast every 6 minutes on alternating channels. A...
The 1,000 day electronics test, a guest blog
My good buddy Ben “El Geekalones” Ellison has graciously given me some space here in his MEB (Most Excellent Blog) so that I can alert you all to the doings of another good buddy...
Furuno FLS, a category stimulated
I first researched forward looking sonar (FLS) back in 2002, and later tested an EchoPilot Bronze on my 25′ Ralph. I really, really like the idea of being able to see underwater ahead of the...
Wilma & Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show
Monday, 9:00 am: on Friday afternoon the organizers of the Fort Lauderdale show postponed the opening from Thursday to Saturday, but I’m beginning to wonder if it will happen at all. As you can...
Raymarine A65 & Navionics Silver, strategies
Next week in Ft. Lauderdale I’ll get an on-the-water demo of the new Raymarine A65 along with its included Navionics Silver chart card…so details then, apparent strategies now: * The A65 is a 6.5”, though full VGA,...
Free the weather, my ass!
Argh! I haven’t gotten too exercised about Senator Rick Santorum’s bill to limit NOAA’s distribution of weather forecasts because I thought it simply too ridiculous to pass, but yesterday I came across this steaming pile of pure...
Now it’s the Si-Tex/Nasa/Nobeltec AIS receiver
It turns out that Nobeltec has decided to market the Si-Tex (Nasa) single frequency black box “AIS100” receiver instead of the Comar SLR-100 as I had first presumed. I dare say that this move, along with adding AIS...
LowranceNET NMEA2000, bad news, good news
Oy, I’m a tired puppy after 5 days of NMEA conference and yet more plane rides. Yesterday’s featured a puking infant during a bumpy landing in Boston followed by a final leg into Rockland on a little...
