Keep your customers safe in shipping lanes
AIS helps keeps your customers safe in shipping lanes
Sitting at home at Christmas, it' s easy to reminisce over those near misses we' ve all had. To help avoid those near misses, AIS - the system that' s mandatory on all commercial vessels over 300 GRT - shows the owner details of a ship' s current position, course, speed and most important the identity, making a voice or DSC VHF contract easy to establish.
Digital Yacht's latest AIS400 is a simple GPS and AIS receiver which picks up transmissions from both these transponders and will provide a data output to any compatible chart plotter or navigation software package.
Most modern chart plotters have an AIS input and AIS overlay that brings the owner's product to life, providing an overlay of vessels in the vicinity.
Move the cursor of the chart plotter onto a target and it'll show the vessel's call sign and name which makes it easy to establish a voice or DSC VHF call if required.
The AIS from Digital Yacht also acts as a GPS receiver for any integrated system and comes complete with GPS antenna and requires just a simple connection to a VHF aerial.
Digital Yacht - 01179 554474 or www.digitalyacht.co.uk
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