Ship position receiving and sharing

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Re: Ship position receiving and sharing

Post by robbage »

Did all that and had AISMon monitoring it as well :)
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Someone in or near Fremantle would be the best. To the OP, try getting in touch with VK6DN - Don.
He lives in Fremantle as far as I know and he also runs IRLP node 6200 on repeater VK6RFM. He may be your man, if he is interested in the project he could possibly co-host it.

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Blinky wrote:
VK2GEL wrote:Yes it's only a click and you need to have the squelch off at least at first. Make sure you have FM selected.
and not be scanning between the 2 frequencies as that would probably miss the burst of data.
And it's 9600 baud data, so you need to use the discriminator output on the radio :)
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Thanks Gavin, you can hear the clicks through the normal audio output, but to decode the data you will need a rig with a discriminator output. It's easy to modify most scanners http://www.discriminator.nl/index-en.html or use a rig with a data out pin, usually one of the accessory socket pins.
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If you're using a ham 2m rig with a standard packet connector then you can use the high speed signal for 9600. It's as good as a discriminator signal (and probably is)
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Re: Ship position receiving and sharing

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Well yesterday evening I saw the most activity I have seen in my short look at AIS. Might give it another go sometime but it's low on the priorities list. :D

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Post by VK2GEL »

Looks like someone near Esperance is sharing:

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/defaul ... level1=140

and I have set up near Dampier:

http://aprs.fi/?lat=-19.8&lng=117.5&mt= ... range=3600

Still looking for a sharer in Perth/Fremantle and Exmouth, Ningaloo, Coral Bay or North Plantations please. It's easy:

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/addyou ... level1=150
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for ship locations worldwide try this sithttp:

www.marinetraffic.com/ais

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Gregg wrote:for ship locations worldwide try this sithttp:

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais

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Re: Ship position receiving and sharing

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Isn't it always the way. I have had a visitor from Karratha this weekend so I went to show the AIS display on aprs.fi of the shipping off the NW coast. It's alway worked before but today I notice no AIS traffic showing for the NW. It's been a while since I last looked so don't know how long it has not been working.

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Re: Ship position receiving and sharing

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I'm decoding now using AISMon. I'm about 750m from Swanbourne Beach at work. The audio can be heard but the burst is a lot shorter than I expected.
Even with a good quality receiver using the 9600 port I'm getting a 33% success rate according to the AISMon display. The sound device is on-board so that probably doesn't help. I'll give it a go with a proper sound card some time. Decoding the AISMon serial port with VB6 is going to suck.
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