and receiving 125% more messages than a SR162 AIS receiver.
Hi AN Dev., living on top of the cliffs in the sw of Cornwall, I've got the Western Approaches before me (yes, I know, someone's got to live here!) so the Shiptrax version is of some considerable interest to me.
Referring to your quote above, can you clarify whether you actually mean the Shiptrax is receiving 125%
more or it is picking up the same plus 25% - to expand/explain just what I mean, if the SR162 is picking up 4 messages, is Shiptrax picking up 5 (ie 125%) or 9 (125% more) messages? A very important difference, I think you will agree.
I hope this doesn't come across as nit-picking, but the english language is a fickle friend - you often hear/read of scientists these days making statements, saying like "25 times less" or "70 fold less", which are nonsense grammatically. Unless you're dealing with fractions/decimals of less than 1, no figure times another is going to be less than you started with. Mathematically "times" means multiplying which infers increasing and larger, not smaller, division results in smaller products.....................
If, indeed you do mean 125%
more, this is a fantastic progression and improvement, but only if it is quantifiable under the same conditions and consistent - I would be willing to trial a Shiptrax if there's one going begging!
