AIS on Garmin chartplottwr

[wood940]

Any recommendations on AIS receiver for a Garmin chartplotter (GPSmap Xs)?

[Karanga]

Originally Posted by wood940

Any recommendations on AIS receiver for a Garmin chartplotter (GPSmap Xs)?

I have a Garmin 7416 xsv chart plotter.
Originally, the Garmin VHF supplied receive only AIS feed to the screen. I installed a Garmin 800 AIS, but some issues indicated it might be a faulty unit, so I got my money back, and installed a Digital Yacht AIT5000.
All of these, and almost everything else available, will do the job of supplying the data to the chart plotter.
The issue I have is the display of the data. Unfortunately I have been spoiled by the excellent (market leading) display of OpenCPN.
I do not like the Garmin AIS data display.
# The Garmin display requires me to "review" a target, with the data contained in up to 3 pages that I have to scroll through (and it still doesn't display everything available).
# Also, if a signal is not received from a target within 40 or so seconds, it shows it as a lost signal.
# The configuration options are minimal.
# The CPA display is a bit challenging to understand.

[ranger58sb]

Originally Posted by wood940

Any recommendations on AIS receiver for a Garmin chartplotter (GPSmap Xs)?

Depending on how old your MFD is...

Probably any receiver that puts AIS info on the NMEA 2000 network.

Our Garmin display is a GPSMap 7612xsv -- so at least one generation out of production -- and it receives info from our Furuno AIS via NMEA2000.

-Chris

[pcmm]

I agree, the older Garmin MFD's are terrible for dealing with AIS data. I have a unit (Echomap) that is 7 years old and it receives AIS data from an AMEC Widelink 600w over NMEA0183 and it works but on the Garmin I have to dig through 3 levels of menu's to see the list of ships its receiving. Not very good at all as this takes time and is not intuitive at all. Newer units (I'm currently looking at an Axiom 9) are much better in this respect

[NYSail]

I have a 7607 Garmin gps and put a Garmin 800 ais. Works great, however I had issues with fault power cords when installing……. 2 bad before 3rd worked..

Good luck

[CaptTom]

I want to reiterate what @ranger58sb said...

Any NMEA 2000 AIS transceiver will work. That's kinda the whole point of having a standard. No two devices at my helm have the same manufacturer's tag on them, and they all play pretty well together. My primary plotter is a Garmin.

Buy each piece of hardware based on features, quality, support and value.

[wood940]

Thank you all for the suggestions and advice.