Totally boring boating geekette hobby

[Krisrmd]

So, I'm bit of a radio geekette.
I used to have a boat {ie: a hole in the water into which one throws in money}
There's AIS (Automatic Identification System) used to track boats, kind of like ADS-B (for aircraft)

If I haven't bored you, or you haven't fallen asleep yet,...

Decide to make my own AIS station..to help track boats (free/open source, except I pay for the equipment/internet time)
Not into the $$$ monetary AIS stuff that's out there... I like free for everyone, ..but that's just me..

Tracking here (Lower Mainland)..my "station" is the green circle/tower in Richmond
https://aiscatcher.org/?lat=49.1529&lon=-123.2385&zoom=10.57
Wait for the boats to show up.. sometimes delayed a bit
One can zoom/drag the map into almost any street/location, ..it's pretty cool!

Mounted the Raspberry Pi /tuner on the wall this AM (stats went down to 99% today- due to downtime)


/end geekette

Cheers!
Kris

 

[Jesse]

You are geeky - What else u geeky in?

 

[Krisrmd]

You are geeky - What else u geeky in?

I'll have to make a YIG & YAG T-shirt sometime.. as opposed to the usual Ying & Yang T- shirt?

Have a YIG oscillator (Yttrium Iron Garnet) in an old RF spectrum analyzer.
And a YAG (nd-Yttrium Aluminum Garnet) laser.

Therefore, the geekette T-shirt!?

 

[Jesse]

Go girl go

 

[Frances]

although I should talk! Geeks-R-me!

 

[Corinne]

Let's just say a few of us are in the same league