From time to time I am asked about AIS—Automatic Identification System. I have replied that I think it is a good idea, but that I have not equipped GANNET with it because it adds too much complexity and requires too much power for the little boat. Yesterday I came across an ad for a relatively new iCom handheld VHF radio with integrated AIS. I am going to ask for one for my birthday.
https://www.icomjapan.com/lineup/products/IC-M94D/
This morning I happened across entries in the 2021 Weather Photographer of the Year contest. Some are spectacular.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/weather-photographer-of-the-year-competition-2021-05nct6jhx
As I have pointed out before those fools who refuse to be vaccinated endanger not only themselves but others and cost all of us money due to unnecessary hospitalizations that we all pay for through taxes and higher insurance premiums. Now insurance companies and some businesses are doing something about it. Delta Airlines has not mandated that all employees be vaccinated, but it is going to start charging the unvaccinated a $200 a month surcharge to remain in the company’s health care system. Good.
It is apparent that many, perhaps most people have the attention span of a gnat, which may be an insult to gnats. So we have Nat Geo and A. Fib and far too many others. Yesterday I came across in a magazine article “No prob.” written by a staff writer who found typing ‘no problem’ too exhausting.
I am rereading Erik Larsen’s THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY after finishing a superior trilogy by Derek Robinson about the RAF in WWI. As you may know THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY is about a serial killer who was active during the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. There were an unusual number of remarkable men in Chicago then, many of them architects.
Here is a paragraph from the book that I consider cross-training.
1 comment:
In regard to AIS, it seems receiving AIS signals is relatively simple and is possible with the ICOM handheld as well as many fixed mount VHF radios. When a instrument network is onboard, the position of AIS boats can be shown on any chartplotter.
If you want to broadcast your position with AIS, then the setup gets complicated and power consumption goes up.
Ants
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