Busy Saturday morning in the Cromarty Firth

tarbat · October 10, 2009, 08:33:38 AM

Another beta testing screenshot.

When we drove past the Cromarty Firth yesterday we saw there were 5 oil rigs in for servicing, although only two appear to be transmitting AIS.

jannuh · October 10, 2009, 10:50:54 AM

Q: what more columns do you have in the myships part of the screen??

tarbat · October 10, 2009, 10:54:28 AM

Changed, Tracked, Tracking, PE, Status, Callsign, Country Flag, Name, Ship Type, Dest, DOB, DWT, Ln, Bm, Dr, Spd, Crs, Hdg, IMO, MMSI, Lat, Long, Country, Cargo Type, ETA, GPS Bow, GPS Stern, GPS Port, GPS Starboard, TypePosFix, DTE Flag, Nav Status, Rate of Turn, Pos Acc

I've suggested adding Distance, so you can sort by distance from home location.

jannuh · October 10, 2009, 11:10:50 AM

The list looks good!
Distance is nice too; except for plotting ships, AIS is also nice for DX-ing (Tropo Ducts) ;-)

btw: can it also decode the typical inland-ais messages??
(more info here http://www.ccr-zkr.org/Files/ris/leafais2008_e.pdf )

tarbat · October 10, 2009, 11:49:18 AM

Currently decodes message types:
01 - Position Report with SOTDMA
02 - Position Report with SOTDMA
03 - Position Report with ITDMA
04 - Base Station Report
05 - Ship static and voyage related data

jannuh · October 10, 2009, 12:46:07 PM

Msg type 8:
024462072;Ship voyage data;2324994 ;len 70.0m beam 7.5m;eri 8010 haz 0;draught 0.00m load 2 091010 000455;serial#1(A)[8]

tarbat · October 10, 2009, 12:49:56 PM

Quote from: jannuh on October 10, 2009, 12:46:07 PMMsg type 8:
024462072;Ship voyage data;2324994 ;len 70.0m beam 7.5m;eri 8010 haz 0;draught 0.00m load 2 091010 000455;serial#1(A)[8]

That's not what I'd understand as a message type 8 - http://www.aisparser.com/sdk/structaismsg__8.html

But it is likely that other message types may need decoding. The most obvious one is message type 9 - http://www.aisparser.com/sdk/structaismsg__9.html

I'm no expert on AIS messages though :(

jannuh · October 10, 2009, 01:30:09 PM

It is a SP "translated" type 8 msg, not in raw format.

I better hide somewhere in a dark corner, not being an expert, not even a novice in this kind of things..

Johnn · October 10, 2009, 05:28:21 PM

-Hi There
Is this screenshot via a network or real time via a antenna? if so what range are you getting?
Cheers

tarbat · October 10, 2009, 08:09:41 PM

It's taking a feed from ShipPlotter to simulate hardware.

radarspotter10 · October 14, 2009, 09:28:50 AM

Quote from: tarbat on October 10, 2009, 08:09:41 PM
It's taking a feed from ShipPlotter to simulate hardware.

tarbat.
like the screenshots looks good, can not wait for it to be release.
from pat

VK2GEL · October 18, 2009, 06:37:44 AM

+1 for distance readout for DX.

tarbat · January 21, 2010, 01:47:03 PM

This is why I like ShipTrax. It shows me when the Cromarty Firth is really busy with ships, so I can grab my camera/binoculars and head out for an afternoon of ship-spotting!!!

Allocator · January 21, 2010, 07:10:55 PM

Busy in the Irish Sea!

Johnn · January 21, 2010, 09:00:47 PM

Hi there
What do the binoculars mean on those screenshots please?
Thanks

Busy Saturday morning in the Cromarty Firth

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