[CA] [CA11] Using proAIS2 with AIS500 transceiver

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

David,

All serial to USB adapter are not designed to the same standards, nor are the drivers for these adapter all of the same quality. Ask any owner of a PC running a navigational application which was designed to run on a computer and unable to establish communications between the navigational application and the marine electronics, had unreliable communications with between the navigational application and the marine electronics, was struggling with COM ports which changed in assigned number and settings with each power ON/OFF cycle of the computer, or was bitten by the "crazy mouse" symptom where the computer incorrectly interpreted serial data communications from the electronics as commands from a point device.

If you have found another serial to USB adapter which has proven itself and is not subject to the afflictions listed above, then by all means continue to use it.