You guys may find this neat.

[Molson]

I work for a local municipality. Having a keen interest in boating, and all things nautical, I keep an eye on Marinetraffic.com every so often, as we have one industry in town that a ship comes into a few times a year. Our coverage is spotty here, there is one receiver owned by a local HAM operator. So I brought it up with our IT manager, saying, hey, we have a great fibre network, 24/7 power, why not see what they say. So we filled in the application, and today this arrived:



Cool!

Now we need to see if we can get a donated VHF antenna, as we don't have a budget for this.

 

[Molson]

or not. lol

 

[islandhopper00]

I think it's neat!...................what does it do?

 

[2000SR380]

So... This translates the Marine traffic AIS signals onto your network, and then transmits it on VHF??

 

[Molson]

This takes the AIS information from the transceiver on the ship, and feeds its to the MarineTraffic.com site. So anyone watching the site can see where the ships are.

 

[2000SR380]

Very cool! so as long as you have internet you can access local AIS information?

 

[Molson]

Check out www.marinetraffic.com

Essentially yes, as long as there is coverage in the area, you can see local AIS information.