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I don’t have such ambivalence about any other aspect of the encoding guide you linked to, which, incidentally, seems pretty strongly aimed at commercial shipping using Class A AIS. Then again some displays, like Raymarine’s, can optionally use target icons that reference the Vessel Type, though I don’t think that’s allowed on type approved displays. in vessel names actually helps situational awareness, as vessel names are usually easier to see than the other details (which do of course include types like sailing, pleasure, fishing etc.).
Second, I think that having S/Y, F/V etc. One thing I’m doing by voluntarily using a Class B AIS is to make my vessel and personal contact info easily available to the authorities, and I’m happy to do so as I think it can help them keep things safe and orderly. to clean up its AIS name, and it wouldn’t be hard to do. Guilty as charged, Kai, but let’s discuss.įirst of all, I’ve yet to hear of the Coast Guard asking any M/V, S/Y, F/V etc. PS : According to John Sherman in an informative comment below, the new HX890 does not support some useful features - like transmitting a DSC Position Request, or All Ships Urgency and Safety messages - that were available in previous Standard Horizon models like the HX870 and HX851. While that means you’re no longer monitoring the VHF band, you can sweep the FM band for available stations which you can save as presets, and even the little (and long gone) SH HX471S I still have sounds pretty good, especially for news and/or talk radio when, say, you’re on a project up the mast. The new feature I really like is that both can be tuned to the FM broadcast band. I have not seen any publicity about them, but the HX890 Handheld VHF/GPS and the HX40 Ultra Compact Handheld are not only detailed at but in stock at various outlets for about $270 and $170 respectively.
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And similar software is available for the existing HX870 handheld and the brand new HX890.
And it could be terrific for, say, a fleet manager setting up multiple radios optimized for particular boating tasks.
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It’s already nice, I think, that the GX6000 already allows you custom configure the Soft Keys, Channel Names, and more, but that’s all much easier with the PC software.
You do need to link a Windows PC to the GX6000’s USB port and download the firmware updates and the YCE08 software found under the Files tab at SH’s GX6000 web page, but then the possibilities even get fun.Īnd now the fun part: As shown on the lower screens, the YCE software lets you download the current settings of the radio, modify them easily using the PC’s big screen and keyboard, and then upload them back to the radio. I once updated a Simrad RS35 VHF/AISrx radio over N2K using an SD card and a Simrad MFD, but marine radios are not usually upgradeable in the field, and the Standard Horizon process is easily the most sophisticated I know of.
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They didn’t seem to know either, at least at first, but a few weeks later they sent an update for testing. This evidence that the radio was properly decoding AIS signals even while both Garmin and Raymarine MFDs showed screwy target positions strongly indicated that NMEA 2000 translation was the problem, though I did not know for sure that it wasn’t caused by some wackiness on Gizmo’s complicated N2K network when I reported the issue to Standard Horizon. Note the realistic bearings and distances for vessels like S/Y Angel and Snow Star. Here’s the GX6000 I began testing in June photographed at the same time I grabbed the Garmin 742 screen at top.