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Captain Ali, an ASA instructor and 15-year Chesapeake Bay racer, joins Maryland School of Sailing host Tom Tersey for a structured seminar on Automatic Identification Systems covering history, operation, and practical collision-avoidance use.0:15 AIS traces its lineage to the WWII Identification Friend or Foe transponder system before migrating into commercial marine use.3:22 Class A and Class B (and Class B+) differ in transmission frequency, power output, and the self-organizing TDMA algorithm that lets B+ claim time slots more efficiently in heavy traffic.33:54 AIS signals carry two data streams: dynamic data (speed, course over ground) and static data (vessel name, MMSI).5:48 The Garmin multifunction display reports closest point of approach but does not reliably indicate whether a target will cross ahead or astern; a paper maneuvering board resolves that gap.10:52 Coast Guard AIS on aids to navigation comes in three forms — physical (device mounted on the buoy), synthetic (shore-transmitted at the buoy's charted position), and virtual (a point in space with no physical buoy) — and synthetic AIS can mask an off-station or dark buoy, creating a collision risk.7:08 Internet-based AIS services such as MarineTraffic extend range beyond VHF line-of-sight but add latency.22:50 A Wi-Fi AIS multiplexer rebroadcasts received VHF AIS data to tablets and phones aboard, enabling anchor-watch traffic alarms.27:05 AIS man-overboard beacons require test mode activation on the MFD to verify the signal chain before an emergency.18:18

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