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Old 05-26-2018, 07:12 AM   #20
ranger58sb
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Originally Posted by dhays View Post
I disagree that leaving them on doesn’t necessarily create a problem. Having active AIS signals from boats that are not currently in operation can clutter up the AIS display in busy harbors reducing its effectiveness at its intended purpose, to help with collision avoidance.

I like AIS, and use it often to understand and sometimes communicate with commercial or other traffic...

But there are so many boats without it that it hasn't become our main collision avoidance tool around here.

FWIW, our installer piggy-backed ours on the MFD circuit in a way that leaves the AIS transmitter always on... unless I rummage around to trip the breaker on that circuit. Don't completely remember why they did that, IIRC something about anchoring... but the result is that ours is usually on, even when we're in the slip.

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