Good find Joel!
The cheapest approach is to use a RTL-SDR (Software Defined Radio) dongle ($21 on Amazon, cheaper on eBay) plus a free AIS decoder. It pipes decoded NMEA sentences to OpenCPN. Works great but takes a while to setup. I have a few variations of this up and running. Not sure I would want to solely rely on it but YMMV. http://www.amazon.com/NooElec-RTL-SDR-RTL2832U-Software-Packages/dp/B008S7AVTC How to instructions for those interested: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-cheap-ais-ship-tracking/ Cheers, Aaron R. Admiral Maggie, 1979 C&C 30 MK1 #540 Annapolis, MD ________________________________ From: CnC-List <cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com> on behalf of Joel Aronson via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 3:52 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Joel Aronson Subject: Re: Stus-List AIS receiver That's my intent. Found it on the OpenCPN website. Joel On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Jerome Tauber via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote: Good find. You can use it with Open CPN which is free navigation software. Jerry J&J -----Original Message----- From: Joel Aronson via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> To: cnc-list <cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> Cc: Joel Aronson <joel.aron...@gmail.com<mailto:joel.aron...@gmail.com>> Sent: Thu, Feb 25, 2016 3:38 pm Subject: Stus-List AIS receiver Just bought one of these to connect to a laptop: http://wegmatt.com/ I rather have it at the helm, but for $65. this is better than nothing. I'll use my emergency antenna. -- Joel 301 541 8551<tel:301%20541%208551> _______________________________________________ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com<mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.com> To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com _______________________________________________ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com<mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.com> To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com -- Joel 301 541 8551
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