AIS

14 mars 2011 – 14 mars 2024, a birthday (¹) which does not fall round, but a performance worth saluting ! What was only a startup at the beginning of the use of tablets and smartphones for navigation is today Read more …

Appeared in spring 2017, Digital Yacht's Nomad was the first, and the only one, portable AIS transponder. I carried out a detailed test the following summer, reported on this blog (¹). We feared that this excellent device would be abandoned, car Read more …

Vesper Marine, company established in 2007 in Auckland (New Zealand), specializes in the design of devices for AIS data broadcasting. Their latest product, XB-8000, is a Class B AIS transponder certified NMEA2000® compact, low consumption, responding to Read more …

Garmin® definitely has long teeth ! After Active Captain and Navionics, Garmin® has just announced the purchase of Vesper Marine, specialized in high-end AIS transponders (¹).

Numerous AIS tracking networks broadcast over the internet are available. Among the best known : Marine Traffic, Vessel Finder, SiiTech, LocateEverything, and many others. One of these networks particularly stands out, AISHub, an AIS data sharing center Read more …

  A new generation of transponder (¹) AIS Class B+ claims to make pleasure boats more visible. Here's how…

I relay here an article published in 2014 on the Digital Yacht blog which provides an excellent discussion on choosing which antenna to install for an AIS transceiver. Below you will find a transcription freely adapted by my Read more …

Last May I presented the Nomad, a portable AIS transceiver designed by Digital Yacht. I had to wait until the end of the summer to have the opportunity to test in real situation this device that had been entrusted to me by the manufacturer. Is Read more …

The Digital Yacht company offers Nomad, the first AIS transponder class B mobile with Wi-Fi interface. The Nomad is supplied with a portable VHF antenna of 25 cm equipped with a sucker and a 4 metres cable, and with a Read more …

In recent years, websites allowing the visualization of maritime traffic have developed on the web.. They continuously transmit via the internet the positions received from the ships' AIS transmitters, received by reception bases on land, Read more …

With the progressive generalization of the AIS (transceivers) aboard our pleasure boats (¹), and their obligatory presence on board a large proportion of commercial ships, capacities for display and processing of targets (surrounding ships equipped Read more …

The Department of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, published on 4 August a boating safety alert concerning LED bulbs (¹). The text warns boaters about the risks of jamming Read more …

The Taiwanese company Alltek Marine Electronics, also known by the acronym AMEC, has specialized since 2006 in the design and manufacture of AIS devices. In his presentation, AMEC announces it was founded with the ambition to provide the best in marine electronics Read more …

AIS takes a growing place, for two or three years, in the concerns of leisure boaters. Several articles refer to it in this blog, as for equipment as for applications available for our Mac, iPad or Read more …

During a somewhat sad weekend in January, we joined the port of L'Herbaudière, Isle of Noirmoutier, via the picturesque Gois passage at low tide. We, that is to say, a boating journalist, my wife and myself. Welcomed by two Read more …

I explained, in a recent post, how to receive NMEA data from on-board instruments without using a Mac (or a PC) on board. It is now possible to do the same thing for receiving AIS data with Read more …

It is more and more common to see an AIS receiver, Automatic Identification System (*), receiver above yacht's chart tables. Although only merchant vessels of over 300 barrels and ships Read more …