[Xastir] Filter commands for Ships

[David]

Hi....i understand that ships in VK waters show up in aprs.fi
here in Townsville,Queensland there is a recieving station on Cape 
Cleveland and it recieves the AIS sigs from the ships....im not sure as 
to how aprs.fi gets the data

73 David VK4BDJ



Tom Hayward wrote:
>> What is the correct filter commands for large ships e.g. tankers, stock
>> carriers?
>>
>> I've tried the filter on symbol "s/SY", however I'm not getting any large
>> ships.
>>     
>
> Large ships use AIS, not APRS. If you are only connected to APRS
> servers, you should not see AIS data. I'm not sure where you would
> need to connect to get AIS data.
>
> Tom KD7LXL
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