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Two nice things about AIS: low power and no radar detector interference 
In Response To: AIS first and maybe foremost 
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() The AIS uses virtually no power so it is on whenever I am underway and a lot of time when I am not. The radar though uses power, and also when it is actually running it triggers the SeaMe transponder and idiot light. So its detection feature (you are being scanned by radar) is rendered useless when on.
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- Modern ship captains: Do you look at AIS or Radar?
- I don't know about where you're going, Jon; but
- Pangas don't use AIS and neither do
- You're no modern ship captain, then Steve.
- I remember hearing this one unfold on VHF
- I remember as well..
- Both boats with fully operational radar. That's disturbing.
- I always hope for wind in thick fog
- I've been thick fog with lobster boats roaring from pot to pot
- Me too. Sailing will save you. If you can't, just slow down.
- I would like to read the story but I refuse
- That's my point. "of little use" is better
- I remember hearing this one unfold on VHF
- You're no modern ship captain, then Steve.
- I don't know that COLREGS have changed but...
- AIS first and maybe foremost
- Two nice things about AIS: low power and no radar detector interference
- Two nice things about AIS: low power and no radar detector interference
- You can't assume large ships will always show up on AIS
- Turned my radar on today for the first time since the launch day test
- I don't know where you are, but I can tell you this. In the Gulf ICW, beween Galveston Tex and New Orleans La