AIS650 NMEA outpout

[David Fletcher]

I have an AIS650 which is about to be installed and would be connected to my MFD and Ray 260 Vhf via stng.

My question is could I connect the nmea output wires on the power cord of the AIS650 to supply lat and long from the AIS antenna to the DSC function on my Icom 802 ssb radio.

I believe the Icom radio will only accept a sentence from a dedicated $GPS$ versus the signal from the RS130 / RS150 which is supplied to my E series MFD which in turns supplies a sentence which the ICom does not accept .

I hope this might work versus the purchase of a third GPS receiver.