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Had a sneaking suspicion. The "Garmin Anomaly". Unfortunately the Garmin AIS sets the 4 bits that indicate the type of AIS transmission to all 1's meaning data not available. The...

I'm unsure whether this is still open, but in its current form is unsatisfactory. Ultimately the download in the background succeeds, but when OpenCPN and/or the chart downloder loses focus,...

A great discussion piece Sebastien. You could introduce the concept of major & minor units (not sure if that is the right terminology though). For distance I personally prefer Nautical...

What an interesting discussion. Just for the hell of, or perhaps as an exercise in academic masochism, I performed a simple test, generating PGN 1290283 to see how a MFD...

> Once again this standard is hidden to me, but in https://gpsd.gitlab.io/gpsd/AIVDM.html Eric Raymond specifies the field exactly as in the ais standard. I have a copy of the NMEA...

Hopefully this will take into consideration support for connections to multiplexers where the multiplexer ports have connections to devices that may or may not support checksums. In my own case...

We'll just have to agree to disagree. The NMEA 0183 standard defines the sentence format, start delimiters, lengths, valid characters, checksum and the sentence fields. To determine the validity of...

> As far as I understand it is usual to display vessel speed in knots. As I've said before, you are clearly not a sailor. Some sailors may use imperial...

@Elmue I'll say this only one more time. You are not a sailor, you have never set foot on a boat and your comments only serve to display your ignorance...

Having little chuckle to myself..... Have a read through of #4567