AIS...Who Has What in 2020

Looking at installing an AIS transceiver.
I have a Raymarine plotter and Samsung tablet running Navionics. Would like everything to talk to each other.

Interested to know who is using what, feedback and recommendations?

Thanks

I'm using the Vesper too, it was very useful sailing up to the Whitsundays last year, especially past Mackay and Bundaberg with all the shipping. The vesper works well with Raymarine, I have it wired into my RM backbone. Another bonus along with anchor watch is you and or your loved ones on shore can see exactly where the boat is, via ship tracker. It even shows you track history.
The coast guard can also see you much easier at the main bases with computer screen set ups.
cheers Richard

I have the Raymarine AIS 700 with the Raymarine c-97 chartplotter/ mfd

Wavesong, the A75 has WiFi, so to keep it simple you could download the Raymarine app and mirror your chart plotter onto you Samsung. You can even control the MFD and autopilot from the tablet. If by chance your plotter packs up you can still fall back onto Navionics on your tablet.

I removed a Raymarine receiver only and replaced it with a GME transceiver. Because it goes to my master plotter (a E95), and than goes via Sea-talk to another two plotters plus an iPad. And it was half the price of a Raymarine transceiver.

I don't have a MOB AIS transmitter mainly because I sail solo, but if you're not solo, something like this could possibly be a life saver. Otherwise a PLB or even better, both!.... www.aliexpress.com/item/32830867908.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.100009.3.432e217bpkVIWM&gps-id=pcDetailLeftTopSell&scm=1007.13482.95643.0&scm_id=1007.13482.95643.0&scm-url=1007.13482.95643.0&pvid=84011533-881c-4bd6-897e-4ef432f7b7b7&_t=gps-id:pcDetailLeftTopSell,scm-url:1007.13482.95643.0,pvid:84011533-881c-4bd6-897e-4ef432f7b7b7,tpp_buckets:668%230%23169576%231_668%23808%235965%23548_668%23888%233325%235_668%232846%238112%23546_668%232717%237561%23320

I have nothing here in Japan. And I mean nothing.
Smaller fishing boats (under 50 tons) are what will get ya here and no one has even heard of AIS.
Um, BTW, no one has VHF yet.

gary

They love licenses and qualifications.
When I got my Japanese A class marine license 4 years ago ($ 1,500 and six days off work.)
There was not one question on GPS or VHS. Lots on nets and correct signal shapes. (Cones, balls, and cylinders)

I asked the (75 year old) instructor about this. He loved to talk and after more than 50 years at sea had his share of stories.
There is no Leisure boating in Japan.
You take a professional qualification or nothing.
Think about that. The simplest license is $800 and that is what you need to ride a jetski. The test involves coastal navigation, weather prediction and Radar navigation.

VHF is covered by the general marine radio license. Where you have to learn morse code at a certain rate. I forgot the cost, but it isn't peanuts. So no one bothers with equipment because of the licensing.
You probably need a marine radio license to even fit an AIS.

In Japan they have a system called descending from heaven.
When a senior bureaucrat retires at 60 he is moved into a well paid position ( around $300,000 per year ) in a statutory department that he has absolutely no knowledge of.
Someone with a background in chemical pollution would become the big cheese at the Marine license department.
Now, he will turn up at work two days a week at most.
And if any underling was to enter his office and suggest the there is a new system called AIS and it should be incorporated into marine safety. That bod would be transferred to the boonies. So every one just keeps their head down and does what their grandfather had done.

Same sex marriage will never happen here, Not relevant but an example of social sclerosis.


gary