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Trouble with broadband is you have to change out your whole instrument system to use it.. 
In Response To: The SeaMe might not trigger response ()
because only one manufacturer is selling it, and of course there is no interoperability. If it doesn't trigger a response, that indicates that the transponder would not respond to another broadband equipped vessel, which would actually be bad. But it would be interesting to know.
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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
- The SeaMe might not trigger response
- Trouble with broadband is you have to change out your whole instrument system to use it..
- FMCW radar still uses the x-band at a nominal 9.4GHz
- Trouble with broadband is you have to change out your whole instrument system to use it..
- The SeaMe might not trigger response
- 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