I spoke to Garmin Tech Support yesterday. According to the guy I spoke with, the latest version of the Garmin 3010 software (3.5) does indeed support both high speed NMEA and AIS sentences. My nobeltec AIS receiver has just arrived and I'm headed down to the boat this weekend to try it all out.
In the Garmin Web Site, the latest update from 3.4 to 3.5 for GpsMap 3010C shows as below:
Changes made from version 3.40 to 3.50:
Improved the retail demonstration mode. Added NMEA output sentence for Autopilot B (GPAPB). Optimized the NMEA transmit rate. Corrected a problem with the route data/numbers list not updating correctly when the route has 9 or more waypoints. Corrected the position of the sun/moon on the celestial page when the sky orientation was set to Track Up.
I do not se anithing about AIS. Anyway, I would like to know of your experience in real.
You are rigth; I have donloaded today the updated mannuals of GpsMap3005/3010/3205/498 and the AIS support is there.
It seems prety basic yet: there is a new option in the NMEA/IN/OUT for High Speed (38400) and a AIS Tab in Map Page to select the zoom scale to AIS targets appears. The mannual says it diplays MMSI, Ships position, course and speed . I have not seen any option to alarms, but seems that we can set the heading line of the sips (?) on time or distance.
> You are rigth; I have donloaded today the updated mannuals of > GpsMap3005/3010/3205/498 and the AIS support is there.
> It seems prety basic yet: there is a new option in the NMEA/IN/OUT for > High Speed (38400) and a AIS Tab in Map Page to select the zoom scale > to AIS targets appears. The mannual says it diplays MMSI, Ships > position, course and speed . I have not seen any option to alarms, but > seems that we can set the heading line of the sips (?) on time or > distance.
> Can you posy here your tests rsults asap?
> Thanks
> Pascal
Sorry for the delay. First, I did confirm with Garmin that the release notes that are published with their upgrades are sketchy at best. Second, I was wrong about version numbers. It looks as AIS is supported in v4.1 and above. I'm now running v4.2
I'm using the black box AIS receiver from Nobeltec (probably OEMed). I have the whole thing hooked up, but so far I havent seen anything show up on the display. My boat's not yet in the water, so it may just be that nothing interesting has come in range.
My next step is to connect the output of the AIS box to the onboard laptop's serial port and take a look at the data stream. It may be that I have the box wired incorrectly, or that there is something wrong with the box. At least with the laptop I can fire up hyperterminal and take a look at the raw data.
> > You are rigth; I have donloaded today the updated mannuals of > > GpsMap3005/3010/3205/498 and the AIS support is there.
> > It seems prety basic yet: there is a new option in the NMEA/IN/OUT for > > High Speed (38400) and a AIS Tab in Map Page to select the zoom scale > > to AIS targets appears. The mannual says it diplays MMSI, Ships > > position, course and speed . I have not seen any option to alarms, but > > seems that we can set the heading line of the sips (?) on time or > > distance.
> > Can you posy here your tests rsults asap?
> > Thanks
> > Pascal
> Sorry for the delay. First, I did confirm with Garmin that the release > notes that are published with their upgrades are sketchy at best. > Second, I was wrong about version numbers. It looks as AIS is supported > in v4.1 and above. I'm now running v4.2
> I'm using the black box AIS receiver from Nobeltec (probably OEMed). I > have the whole thing hooked up, but so far I havent seen anything show > up on the display. My boat's not yet in the water, so it may just be > that nothing interesting has come in range.
> My next step is to connect the output of the AIS box to the onboard > laptop's serial port and take a look at the data stream. It may be that > I have the box wired incorrectly, or that there is something wrong with > the box. At least with the laptop I can fire up hyperterminal and take > a look at the raw data.
> I'll see what I find!
Maybe you should just listen to the appropriate frequencies and see if you can actually heaer any of the transmissions, to determine if your AIS receiver is actually hearing anything.......
You wrote: > In article <yTr1g.367$PL2.330@dukeread03>, brad <b...@weathergage.com> > wrote:
>> Pascal wrote: >>> Hi Brad,
>>> You are rigth; I have donloaded today the updated mannuals of >>> GpsMap3005/3010/3205/498 and the AIS support is there.
>>> It seems prety basic yet: there is a new option in the NMEA/IN/OUT for >>> High Speed (38400) and a AIS Tab in Map Page to select the zoom scale >>> to AIS targets appears. The mannual says it diplays MMSI, Ships >>> position, course and speed . I have not seen any option to alarms, but >>> seems that we can set the heading line of the sips (?) on time or >>> distance.
>>> Can you posy here your tests rsults asap?
>>> Thanks
>>> Pascal
>> Sorry for the delay. First, I did confirm with Garmin that the release >> notes that are published with their upgrades are sketchy at best. >> Second, I was wrong about version numbers. It looks as AIS is supported >> in v4.1 and above. I'm now running v4.2
>> I'm using the black box AIS receiver from Nobeltec (probably OEMed). I >> have the whole thing hooked up, but so far I havent seen anything show >> up on the display. My boat's not yet in the water, so it may just be >> that nothing interesting has come in range.
>> My next step is to connect the output of the AIS box to the onboard >> laptop's serial port and take a look at the data stream. It may be that >> I have the box wired incorrectly, or that there is something wrong with >> the box. At least with the laptop I can fire up hyperterminal and take >> a look at the raw data.
>> I'll see what I find!
> Maybe you should just listen to the appropriate frequencies and see > if you can actually heaer any of the transmissions, to determine if > your AIS receiver is actually hearing anything.......
Also an excellent idea, and quicker. No soldering!
The AIS receiver selled by Nobeltec is the NASA engine. In this mean time, Raymarine released the 3.16 software update for C-Series with excelent support for AIS. I just hope that Garmin do something like Raymarine and upgrade the software of GpsMap 276C to support AIS too. Keep us informed.
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