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  1. Miktrotik is also quite good - I have installed a lot of both https://www.gowifi.co.nz/mikrotik/rb912r-2nd-ltm_r11e-lte.html
  2. I am not familiar with that unit - but my experience with other NetCom gear has not been great and there support was terrible. In boating units it would be very relatively cheap to buy : https://www.gowifi.co.nz/teltonika/rut360.html Teltonika is a great brand and the support from GoWireless is unparalleled. I guess not the answer you want - but it might be the easiest fix.
  3. Good job getting the MMSI - its was on my todo list to get that (Raymarine doesn't seem to make it easily accessible for Safety Messages). I will report it to RSM see what they can find out - starting to suspect it might be prank. Even the pattern of numbers in the MMSI seem a bit too "made up"
  4. HMB Staff are pretty good. I dont know anything about czone but am pretty good with internet/networking - whats the issue?
  5. Spoke to the Harbour Master - they are not broadcasting these messages. I think its something to do with Vesper or maybe Navionics chart cards?
  6. I too get it mainly at Motuihe but also off the back of Waiheke. Other people have reported it on B&G gear with Vesper. I using Navionics for my charts. Havent seen anything in the AIS standard which would allow conditional display of messages, i.e. if boat is in position X and speed is grater than Y then alert. Would love to know MMSI of who is sending it - maybe a program where you can log AIS traffic for debugging?
  7. PS: I was watching the HDOP during one of these position lost messages - the HDOP never changed from 1.42 - which is pretty acceptable horozontal fix quality.
  8. I have ordered a new GPS antenna. In the meantime I have checked quality of the GPS fix on my chart plotter against Vesper GPS. Chartplotter gets about 12 satellites with differential fix. Vesper gets about 7-8 - is that the db down the left (y) axis? Does anyone else have a Vesper and can send me a screen shot of the normal fix quality? Cheers
  9. That makes sense. I presume it's probably the AIS (Vesper) GPS? It's very intermittent, like once every 4 hours, so may need to do a NMEA recording to see what's happening. Atenna is on radar arch and been good for ages.
  10. We keep getting this message at seemingly random times - sometimes at anchor, sometimes underway. Its getting quite annoying to say the least. Our system is a Vesper XB000 and the screenshot is the message on a Raymarine Axiom MFD. Anyone know why we are getting it and how to stop it? I emailed Vesper and they want to know the light sequence on the XB8000 LEDs so I will have to wait for the message to appear again before I go back to them. "The position not available" aspect of it makes me wonder if the GPS fix is lost - but even so I shouldn't be spammed with these messages?
  11. Chartplotter aside - as a cruiser I find the sailing functions do what I want. There is VMG, lay lines, and some racing functions to do with start timers etc. Take a look in Raymarnie Lighthouse 3 manual online to see the latest feature set. I have two Axioms on my boat and happy with them.
  12. Rewired my Actisense EMU-1 with ABYC compliant colors :-0 Now I have all my engine and tank data on N2k
  13. I began to run out of USB ports for all the things conencted to the Pi, the cables I needed to connect the Pi to my various Victron products are $60 each (ouch) whereas with the CerboGx I still need a cable but a much cheaper one. The Cerbo GX also has more ports for integrating with chart plotters and the like. By the time I worked out what I had spent on waterproof enclosures, various accessories, I worked out that the CerboGx (which is cheap for what you get) would have been not much financial difference in it.
  14. I wonder if you could just buy a USB to N2K gateway (like NGT-1) to get commands to the Autopilot (and if you have N2K that would give you depth and various other things). I have a Pi on my boat running Victron Venus OS for power monitoring, but I am going to buy the real thing one of these days.
  15. Whats the current situation - will sea time count as MIQ time for the full 14 days?
  16. Elon has signaled he wants starlink to be mobile. VOIP with current specs should work easy.
  17. It turned out the unit was fault. BEP replaced and it works with SingleViu, Thanks.
  18. Has anyone here had any experience programming a BEP TS1 tank sender? I didnt find the software particularly intuitive and want to check I got this right: I modelled the (non linear) tank in 3DS max and put cut lines at 20%, 40%, 60% 80% volumes and calculated the height H as measured from the top of the tank. Using the TS1 software linearization menu entered those H values and hit calculate. This gave me the 31,56,77 and 89. What unit is the 31,56,77,89 in? Is that Ohms on the 10-180 Ohm scale? The next issue was that I could not get my new VDO SingleViu fluid level gauge
  19. You can't regulate against every possible scenario. It becomes whack a mole.
  20. New gauges installed. So happy not to have to look at the old birds nest that used to be there.
  21. Thanks guys. I looked at the Klein ones, but since have order ex USA a Wirefy set with 5 dyes incl. heat shrink. Won't be here till Monday, but not going out this weekend anyway. I found trying to use the Nylon dye didn't always work (could pull wire through) and damaged heat shrink.
  22. I need to crimp about 50 heat shrink terminals, and I have since found out that the dye for Heat Shrink is not the same as nylon. Does anyone out East Auckland have one they could hire out for the day?
  23. bigal.nz

    AIS unit

    XB8000 - here. Great unit.
  24. ....."because the Marine Reserves we have are not large enough......" Which is also what was said on page 2 of this thread - the MRs need to be of a certain size to avoid the edge effect (people fishing on the edge). How many more reports does the government need saying the same thing? At least the Rahui's just get on with it - no beauacracy.
  25. There is a pattern to it yes. Appearing on one particular channel of the sonar.
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