I’ve only had a little on-the-water experience with this and other collision avoidance features that came in the LightHouse Release 15 update last October, but I sense that a lot of boaters will appreciate the intercept zone concept…
I don’t know why Seapilot is selling the Compact at half price — and all its Class B AIS transponders, too — but maybe it’s because many boaters don’t yet realize how much a GPS (GNSS) compass like this can do.
These days I feel obliged to include a warning every time I write about AIS over the Internet. What you see in a nice app like ShipFinder HD (left), it probably does not include every vessel that’s transmitting AIS info, and many areas aren’t covered at all.
Automatic Identification System — or AIS technology — is finding its way onto more boats of all sizes. It is on its way to being
Automatic Identification System – or AIS – is one of the hottest product categories in marine electronics. In recent years, most manufacturers have added AIS
It is always amazing to me how quickly marine electronics evolve. It seems that at every boat show there is something new, something better-while at
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