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Comment by yardie

5 years ago

That’s AIS which is standard on all commercial ships and optional, AIS-B, on pleasure craft. It’s transmitted on channel 70 VHF. You can get the same information from a site lie MarineTraffic.com or build your own receiver from rtlsdr library and a cheap tv receiver.

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