1 Notices ..................................................................................................1
1.1 Safety warnings......................................................................................1
1.2 General notices......................................................................................1
2 About your AIS class B transceiver ...................................................3
2.1 About AIS...............................................................................................3
2.2 Static and dynamic vessel data..............................................................4
2.3 What's in the box?..................................................................................5
3 Installation ............................................................................................7
3.1 Preparing for Installation ........................................................................7
3.2 Installation procedures...........................................................................8
4 Configuring your AIS transceiver.....................................................15
4.1 Switching on your AIS transceiver for the first time..............................15
4.2 Introduction to the proAIS software......................................................16
4.3 Installing the proAIS software...............................................................16
4.4 Configuration using proAIS ..................................................................17
5 Operation ............................................................................................18
5.1 Using the AIS transceiver.....................................................................18
5.2 Indicator functions................................................................................18
5.3 Switch functions ...................................................................................19
5.4 Using proAIS with your AIS transceiver ...............................................19
6 Troubleshooting.................................................................................23
7 Specifications.....................................................................................24
Figure 1 The AIS network........................................................................ 3
Figure 2 Items included in the product.....................................................5
Figure 3 AIS transceiver overview........................................................... 6
Figure 4 Electrical connections to the AIS transceiver ............................6
Figure 5 Typical installation configuration................................................ 7
Figure 6 AIS transceiver dimensions....................................................... 9
Figure 7 AIS transceiver mounting ........................................................10
Figure 8 GPS antenna mounting........................................................... 11
Figure 9 Position of the GPS antenna connector .................................. 11
Figure 10 Position of the VHF antenna connector...................................11
Figure 11 NMEA0183 output connections...............................................12
Figure 12 Switch connections..................................................................13
Figure 13 RS232 connection...................................................................14
Figure 14 Connecting the power supply.................................................. 14
Figure 15 Indicators.................................................................................15
Figure 16 Entering static data into proAIS...............................................16
Figure 17 proAIS GPS status page ......................................................... 20
Figure 18 proAIS Diagnostics page......................................................... 20
Figure 19 proAIS Other vessels page...................................................... 21
Figure 20 proAIS Messages page........................................................... 21
Figure 21 proAIS Serial data page ..........................................................22
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