"Lumpy" wrote in message
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Dave wrote:
You state that this could be a 'non profit' or 'standard' business...
and that it could be for safety purposes... in which cases i agree
with others that have stated that there is a possible liability
issue, whether you see it or not...

Thank you for seeing it. Imagine some kind of incident
occurrs where this system failed. They examine all
the equipment on the ship, on land, wherever.
They find that the tower was used, 50 years old, purchased
from an SK ham estate sale, installed by some local
amateurs over Labor Day weekend, using the original
guy lines and hardware that were on the tower in
it's previous install, and in violation of someone's
CCR's because it now holds some kind of commercial
aid to navigation and the tower owner was away for
the weekend visiting the Hamfest in Dayton.

Even if nothing goes wrong, there's something very
wrong with that picture.

Not to mention, I still don't understand what all
these ground based RECEIVERS are supposed to do.
How does a receiver on shore assist navigation
for a vessel in the water?


Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke

www.n0eq.com

The information trasmitted by the ships gives heading, speed, callsign and
other data such as length, beam and draught.

Mike.