Connecting VHF with AIS to MFD

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BrentB

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Has anyone connected a VHF radio with AIS to their MFD (chartplotter)

Connecting a Standard Horizon GX2200 VHF with GPS and AIS receiver to a Garmin chartplotter Echomap Plus?

How was the AIS performance?
 
BrentB":b9pcyuv3 said:
Has anyone connected a VHF radio with AIS to their MFD (chartplotter)

Connecting a Standard Horizon GX2200 VHF with GPS and AIS receiver to a Garmin chartplotter Echomap Plus?

How was the AIS performance?
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Works great! :thup
I can sit in the slip & watch tankers come into the inlet.
The first time the collision alarm that you haven't set up properly goes off it will scare the S___T out of you!!
 
I wired the same radio to my Garmin 3210 and it worked great for a while and then just quit sharing the data. I disconnected the main plug on the back of the Garmin and found one pin that was broken off and shorter than the rest. I figured that is the problem and have not yet checked the wire splices. I will get around to it soon. It was really quite a cool thing to have.
 
BrentB":3sblznup said:
To connect the radio to MFD on my system, is connecting a few wires together. I dont have a network (yet)
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Mine is hard wired also. my radio is not nema 2000 ready. neither is my fruno radar (hard wired into another 0183 nema sonar)
 
BrentB":neq3bm74 said:
Has anyone connected a VHF radio with AIS to their MFD (chartplotter)

Connecting a Standard Horizon GX2200 VHF with GPS and AIS receiver to a Garmin chartplotter Echomap Plus?

How was the AIS performance?
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Brent, Are you asking about a VHF with AIS recieve which is the more common type, or are you asking for performance of a VHF with an AIS transmit/recieve system, a less common device with a more complex system?

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
Hi Harvey

VHF radio with AIS receiver

I was planning to upgrade radio to SH GX2200 with DSC and AIS receiver and interface to a Garmin Echomap Plus MFD and gain AIS overlay
 
I have the earlier model radio (without internal GPS), and it's connected to my Garmin GPSMAP via the older NMEA 283 (I believe) system. Works well. Hardest part is just figuring out which wires connect to which wires. Have wiring diagrams from both your radio and MFD, and study closely which tiny wire is which. If you're MFD is like my GPSMAP 541 or 840, you can turn the AIS repeater on or off. It is definitely nice having the targets pop up on the larger MFD screen, than the tiny VHF screen. But if you are in a crowded marina where everyone seems to leave their AIS on, it's also nice to turn off the display of targets. If both your electronics have the newer 2000 network system, it's just easy plug and play, if you have the proper backbone cables. Colby
 
The NMEA protocols are 0183 (released in March of 1983) which is a simple network. The second is the 2000 which uses the backbone. Unfortunately not all brands are fully compatible in either protocols. But the 0183 is more likely to be shared. Nothing wrong with 0183--just requires some soldering, or making small wire connectors (soldering is fine, as long as you "splint" the joint with adhesive shrink wrap.

We have used older and smaller Garmin MFD to show only the O183 data from the Standard Horizon radio. That keeps the clutter from AIS off the Primary chart plotter used for navigation.
 
Bob is correct (as usual :) ) I meant to say 0183. I used small wire solderless connectors with mine. The kind that are usually used with telephone wire.
 
I have a Standard Horizon 2150, which is the precursor to the 2200. Functanally they are the same now. Rogers Marine in Portland OR did the instal. That VHF will send AIS targets to your plotter via NEMA 0183. That overlay, or AIS layer, on the plotter is part of what makes using the AIS info so easy. I would highly recommend setting up to have that capability especially if this is on a second Installed VHF. Then, if you get the AIS clutter as Bob mentioned, like in a marina, if it is not easy to turn off that AIS layer on the plotter, you can just turn off the VHF. BOINK, all the AIS targets are gone.

Happy AIS using. (Your gonna love it :)

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
Brent,
I have the radio and chart plotter that you asked about. I spent time on the phone with both Garmin and Standard Horizon techs and neither one could help with the connections. I ended up figuring it out on my own.
Blue wire from Standard Horizon connects to brown wire of Garmin Ecomap.
Sorry for the delay in my response, but I had to go to my boat and recheck the wiring to confirm my answer.
 
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