{"id":1137,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:14:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:14:31","slug":"radar-transponders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/radar-transponders\/","title":{"rendered":"Radar Transponders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p class=\"Body\"> Hi SS&#8211;Seems to me a transponder is THE way to be seen by other ships. Can these be fitted legally in the South Pacific? Are there competing manufacturers? Andrew <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p class=\"Body\"> Hi Andrew&#8212;you sent this so long ago your probably forgot it, and I just found it. Active transponders have been on my wish list for a long time. I am not sure of the latest status, but Paines Wessex was developing a unit in the UK and the guys at ACR said they were going to do one also. There are SAR units, but in theory these are illegal as they broadcast an emergency target. What we&#8217;ve done in periods of inclement weather, with lots of rain and big seas, where radar would not pick us up and we&#8217;d have difficulty seeing the ships, is to broadcast our position, speed, and heading on VHF channel 16 as a &#8220;securite&#8221; call. Regards&#8211;Steve Dashew&#8211;SetSail <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi SS&#8211;Seems to me a transponder is THE way to be seen by other ships. Can these be fitted legally <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/radar-transponders\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-yacht-systems-faqs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36364,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/36364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}