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Ships off the Gulf
Ships broadcast position reports on two VHF channels. The receiver in Destin takes both, plots them, and forwards the traffic on.
- Radio
- Nooelec NESDR SmarTee v5 into a discone
- Channels
- 161.975 and 162.025 MHz, decoded simultaneously
- Feeds
- MarineTraffic, VesselFinder, aiscatcher.org
Marine traffic off the Gulf
A discone on the Florida coast hears every ship and boat in VHF range. AIS-catcher decodes both marine channels at once, plots them, and forwards the traffic to MarineTraffic and the other aggregators.
- //Hardware · Nooelec NESDR SmarTee v5 ·
- //Decoder · AIS-catcher, dual channel, 161.975 / 162.025 MHz
- //Feeds · MarineTraffic · VesselFinder · aiscatcher.org
- //Site · Destin, FL. Gulf coast, in a
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Where the data goes
The station feeds the public aggregators. A vessel position near Destin on one of those sites may well have come off this antenna.