Just watched your video as I just bought the torqeedo 1103 LS shaft for my fishing boat. Yes a bit expensive but well worth it. Certainly won't be going back to lifting a leisure battery up a dam wall again with 70 steps.
9:00 So when you haul the sprayhood over, will the AIS antenna be under the hood? How sharp are the edges of that metal ribbon? Could it possibly cut the spray hood or the bladder? Really informative video, thanks. Deserves waaaay more views. Had to laugh at the AED (antenna erectile disfunction).
0:37 No offense, but you're mixing up the terminology on this device, and there are differences in these devices. This is not an EPIRB or type of EPIRB. EPIRBs are designed to be installed on boats. The activate automatically, are designed to float, and can transmit longer due to larger batteries. This is a personal locator beacon - PLB. Personal beacons are just that, personal. They're designed to be used by hikers, skiers, anyone in the outdoors who might need to signal for help. PLBs can be used on boats, but most are not specific to boats. The particular model you have there, the ACR ResQLink+ is simply a regular PLB that is designed to float. Unlike an EPIRB, it does not activate automatically. It also does not have any AIS functionality, which is a separate location reporting system that uses VHF radio, and is not related to satellites at all. Also, distress signals from PLBs do not necessarily rely on the receiving satellite traveling "a little further" to relay its message. PLBs can transmit to a varied network of satellites - some in low earth orbit, and some in geostationary orbit, which maintain the the same position over the ground at all times. In the US for instance, there are two geostationary sats overhead at all times. Your PLB can transmit to them very quickly, and most signals are received within 5 minutes. This fact is an improvement over the functionality of something like Garmin Inreach, a 2-way satellite messenger (not a PLB) that can only communicate with a private sat network in low earth orbit, with satellites coming and going about every 100 minutes.
I'm a windsurfer for holland and when i surf in a river or lake i always take my phone and an ais beacon with me. The phone is for alarming and the ais to be found. When i go surfing on the sea i also take my Plb with me. Just to be sure.
Hey Peter, I don’t believe there is although I could imagine this kind of combination being a possibility just as the 121.5Mhz SART transponder was amalgamated with both the 406Mhz original EPIRB design AND a GPS to create a modern EPIRB unit. I wonder if there would be any transmission issues through a single antenna? it certainly would reduce the ‘extras’ hanging off my lifejacket!
100% correct. thanks for the correction! after a few takes making things I only have 50% control of the words coming out of my mouth and sailing as you know is awash with acronyms!
unfortunately, the standards didn't permit combined AIS/EPIRB until this year :( McMurdo made a combined unit, but it's boat-mounted and far too big for a lifejacket
difference between the two the EPIRB alerts the authorities while the AIS is not an official alerting medium. But when this alarms on boats people should not ignore it.
exactly right, and it’s then up to the individual sailor (or the skipper of the sailor’s boat) to identify which emergency reporting method is most likely to lead to a positive outcome. thanks for the comment
Your words and language is wrong. An EPIRB is not an Electronic Position etc.... It is an EMERGENCY Position etc... An EPIRB has a bigger battery lasts longer and will activate in sea water . The ACR ResQLink is a PLB and does not activate automatically in sea water.
You are absolutely correct- thank you for the correction. I think that is a case of a lazy long term habit of thinking of the ACR as 'EPIRB-like' transforming into now incorrectly describing it as such.
@@CSMtheMariner Hope you didn't mind ....your overall video is a much better quality than I could do, I am learning how to produce/upload youtube videos (Sailing Vessel Naida)
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Thanks for that. Coincidently I have just picked up on this as it is featured in this months PBO.
Well done Chris
Great video, thanks for sharing real used products!
Just watched your video as I just bought the torqeedo 1103 LS shaft for my fishing boat.
Yes a bit expensive but well worth it.
Certainly won't be going back to lifting a leisure battery up a dam wall again with 70 steps.
Great job, thanks
9:00 So when you haul the sprayhood over, will the AIS antenna be under the hood? How sharp are the edges of that metal ribbon? Could it possibly cut the spray hood or the bladder?
Really informative video, thanks. Deserves waaaay more views. Had to laugh at the AED (antenna erectile disfunction).
Chris, what made you go for the ACR over the PLB1, please?
0:37 No offense, but you're mixing up the terminology on this device, and there are differences in these devices. This is not an EPIRB or type of EPIRB. EPIRBs are designed to be installed on boats. The activate automatically, are designed to float, and can transmit longer due to larger batteries. This is a personal locator beacon - PLB. Personal beacons are just that, personal. They're designed to be used by hikers, skiers, anyone in the outdoors who might need to signal for help. PLBs can be used on boats, but most are not specific to boats. The particular model you have there, the ACR ResQLink+ is simply a regular PLB that is designed to float. Unlike an EPIRB, it does not activate automatically. It also does not have any AIS functionality, which is a separate location reporting system that uses VHF radio, and is not related to satellites at all. Also, distress signals from PLBs do not necessarily rely on the receiving satellite traveling "a little further" to relay its message. PLBs can transmit to a varied network of satellites - some in low earth orbit, and some in geostationary orbit, which maintain the the same position over the ground at all times. In the US for instance, there are two geostationary sats overhead at all times. Your PLB can transmit to them very quickly, and most signals are received within 5 minutes. This fact is an improvement over the functionality of something like Garmin Inreach, a 2-way satellite messenger (not a PLB) that can only communicate with a private sat network in low earth orbit, with satellites coming and going about every 100 minutes.
So for coastal cruising and within 6 to 7 miles offshore max you would recommend an AIS system?
The E in EPIRB stands for ”emergency” and not electronic...
I'm a windsurfer for holland and when i surf in a river or lake i always take my phone and an ais beacon with me. The phone is for alarming and the ais to be found. When i go surfing on the sea i also take my Plb with me. Just to be sure.
Is there an EPIRB with AiS beacon attached..... Best of both worlds?
Hey Peter, I don’t believe there is although I could imagine this kind of combination being a possibility just as the 121.5Mhz SART transponder was amalgamated with both the 406Mhz original EPIRB design AND a GPS to create a modern EPIRB unit.
I wonder if there would be any transmission issues through a single antenna? it certainly would reduce the ‘extras’ hanging off my lifejacket!
peter yes there is if you go to the ocen safety site you see this. its about £410
EPIRB is emergency position indicating radio beacon, not electronic.
100% correct. thanks for the correction! after a few takes making things I only have 50% control of the words coming out of my mouth and sailing as you know is awash with acronyms!
im surprised that no one made a 2:1 system!
I was thinking the same…
unfortunately, the standards didn't permit combined AIS/EPIRB until this year :( McMurdo made a combined unit, but it's boat-mounted and far too big for a lifejacket
@@jackiecs8190 ACR recently made a PLB with. both RLS and AIS
SEAANGEL SA16+ (NG) did made it but it never got aproved
@olivierleduc7305, Just saw one at West Marine, "ACR ResQLink AIS". It's a little long, but narrow enough to fit on a PFD.
difference between the two the EPIRB alerts the authorities while the AIS is not an official alerting medium. But when this alarms on boats people should not ignore it.
exactly right, and it’s then up to the individual sailor (or the skipper of the sailor’s boat) to identify which emergency reporting method is most likely to lead to a positive outcome. thanks for the comment
That's why I always take my ais combined with my phone with me. So phone to alert and ais to be found
Your words and language is wrong. An EPIRB is not an Electronic Position etc.... It is an EMERGENCY Position etc... An EPIRB has a bigger battery lasts longer and will activate in sea water . The ACR ResQLink is a PLB and does not activate automatically in sea water.
You are absolutely correct- thank you for the correction. I think that is a case of a lazy long term habit of thinking of the ACR as 'EPIRB-like' transforming into now incorrectly describing it as such.
@@CSMtheMariner Hope you didn't mind ....your overall video is a much better quality than I could do, I am learning how to produce/upload youtube videos (Sailing Vessel Naida)
You keep calling that an EPIRB and it is not an EPIRB. It's a PLB, Personal Locator Beacon. And you call yourself a trainer? lol