Hi Per,I am also sailing during 2 month at summer time. We often go from French
Britany to SpainI use OpenCpn on a MX3310 e-box also managing Jpskmail 2
connected to a FT-100.Sure a box or a piece of software able to convert APRS
messages to "AIS" would be great as any modern marine display could display
both AIS and APRS.Good idea, Per,Best 73s,Christian de F8DZE
To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: per@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pskmail] Sailing with AIS and PSKmail
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:43:20 +0200
Hi all,
Sailing season has ended for me, next week my boat is on land and I'll
prepare it for winter.
So, now begins the "silly sailing season" when I get to prepare for next
years sailing.
This year we had some semi long trips with legs of up to 80-100 nm and a
few weeks at sea. While sailing I have my plotter right at the wheel and
at the moment I lack AIS information there. We did cross the bigger
shipping lanes and of course had to keep a sharp lookout, as always.
I will connect an AIS receiver to be able to see the other ships
earlier/better. The bigger ferries do 30 knots so in a few narrow
passages I would have liked to see where they were going earlier. But, I
would also like to see other boats that use aprs on my plotter and of
course I would like to have pskmail integrated too. So, I built an aprs
to ais gateway. That way I can have both AIS, APRS and PSKmail tracks on
my plotter. It converts APRS pos messages into NMEA AIVDM with AIS
Payload containing AIS message type 1 (Position report class A) which
any AIS capable plotter must handle. I intend to add type 5 also to get
some more data across. I have it on a PC now but that won't do on the
boat, I'm thinking arduino to save power and size.
So, I just wonder if that kind of thing could be interesting for others
with boats? A small box that lets you connect AIS and APRS sources to a
dedicated plotter or software (OpenCPN for PC or android works fine btw).
73, Per
sm0rwo
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