AIS Receiver advice

[Phil23]

Further to my previous login I would appreciate opinion on the locally (NZ) manufactured AIS Receiver on Marine electronics, best value for money.
My cruising is primarily coastal.
I appreciate the site does not give full technical data however any comment or advice appreciated

 

[AlaskaProf]

Further to my previous login I would appreciate opinion ...AIS Receiver

I have no knowledge of this product, but I can tell you that I bought an AIS receiver (from another TF guy) and within a week I realized I needed to go the extra cost and get a transceiver. Fortunately, another TF guy bought my supernumerary receiver.


My advice would be: do it right the first time; you will like the full capability.:lol:
p.s.: the bigger the display, the better.

 

[boomerang]

AP, I'm wondering why you prefer a large display on the AIS transceiver. I can't think of anyone who uses the display, if it isn't a black box in the first place. I ,personally, like the AIS targets displayed on my plotter screen. To me, that makes the most sense.

 

[AlaskaProf]

personally, like the AIS targets displayed on my plotter screen. To me, that makes the most sense.

My post does seem a bit unclear. I always displayed AIS targets on my plotter, which was in turn displayed on a 13" BigBay daylight monitor...when I had a boat, of course.

 

[Milltech]

Hi Phil, I am not familiar with that particular AIS receiver but in general I always try to caution people about buying products from sites or companies like this, especially when it comes to a critical safety device like AIS. I certainly don't mean to belittle this company, we all start somewhere, but I think you would be better off spending a few bucks more for something that has been tested, certified, built to standards, etc. just my two cents.

Another quick point is we get a lot of customers that buy a receiver and come back in a year or two and wish they would have bought a transceiver. So while it can be a significant jump in pricing, maybe worth an extra consideration to determine whether or not it's worth the investment to you to also be seen by other boats.

 

[Carriage Guy]

For what it's worth, I'm in the process of installing a Quark QK-A024 AIS receiver in our boat to interface with our ipad via wifi, using this 2 year old homebrew implementation YouTube for guidance

. The Quark receiver with WiFi output appears to be $10 less than the AISdigital unit. Quark makes several other configurations of receivers. I have no personal experience with that unit yet but the YouTube appears to have 32 favorable/0 unfavorable comments.