Recently we have found ATON's that are AIS beacons. These have a very long range....we've seen them at 24 miles so far and they give you their exact location within 10 meters. Very good news I think as an additional nav aid. We don't seem to find that the software in plotters or the nav programs seem to handle them very well. They don't treat them as "ships" so you don't get a range and heading from them unless you move the curser to them. Has anyone encountered these yet and if so does your nav software treat them as you would expect..or perhaps it doesn't even "see" them. As always YMMV.. Dave & Nancy Swan Song Roughwater 58 Caribbean Cruise '07

I've seen a number of things that report as "Base Stations" on AIS. Not sure it that's an ATON. I've seen them at ranges out to 60 miles. John Marshall N5520-Serendipity On Aug 10, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Dave Cooper wrote: > Recently we have found ATON's that are AIS beacons. These have a > very long > range....we've seen them at 24 miles so far and they give you their > exact > location within 10 meters. Very good news I think as an additional > nav aid. > > > > We don't seem to find that the software in plotters or the nav > programs seem > to handle them very well. They don't treat them as "ships" so you > don't get > a range and heading from them unless you move the curser to them. > > > > Has anyone encountered these yet and if so does your nav software > treat them > as you would expect..or perhaps it doesn't even "see" them. > > > > As always YMMV.. > > > > > > Dave & Nancy > > Swan Song > > Roughwater 58 > > Caribbean Cruise '07 > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking-under-power > > To unsubscribe send email to > passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water World > Productions, formerly known as Trawler World Productions.