[Xastir] Filter commands for Ships

[Tapio Sokura]

David wrote:
> 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

aprs.fi gets the AIS data via direct feeds from AIS receiving stations 
and also via other websites that participate in a kind of AIS sharing 
system. It has nothing to do with APRS or APRS-IS, except that you can 
see both on one website.

   Tapio