[PUP] AIS Transponder

[John Ford]

Actually I have seen a large coast guard ship in the chesapeake bay  
that was transmitting AIS, it was one of the ones that work on the  
buoys.  At first it caught me completely off guard but it makes sense  
that they need to be seen when working near the shipping channels.


On Jun 2, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Philip Eslinger wrote:

> 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
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