KS-200A+This is a stand-alone AIS Class B+ 5 Watts power,
transponder/ transceiver using SOTDMA technology, the same technology used for
Class A commercial vessels. SOTDMA gives
you faster access to AIS time slots and the more powerful transmission power of
Class B+ will get your transmiss..
An essential item to connect a serial or NMEA0183 device to a computer that doesn't have a dedicated serial port installed. Serial ports were, at one time, quite usual on computers and lap tops. Today, this is not the case and an external device such as this is needed to connect serial and NME..