[PUP] AIS Transponder

[Philip Eslinger]

While The Coast Guard and the Navy do not broadcast AIS,  they can  
read it.  We  have a couple of CG officers who own a sailboat in the  
slip next to ours and the subject of AIS came up a few weeks ago.  He  
told me that they just got the ability to read AIS.  I would think  
the Navy has also gotten that ability.

Crossing the Pacific to Hawaii, we got into some weird VHF skip  
phenomena.  1000 miles away from California, we were still receiving  
Coast Guard Los Angeles on the radio.   It also picked up some AIS  
contacts back in Long Beach over 1000 miles away.

Phil Eslinger
Flat Earth N5025
Ko Olina, Hi