Interfacing AIS VHF radio to MFD

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

Welcome to the Raymarine Technical Forum Brad,

Raymarine's a/c/e/eS/gS-Series MFDs are indeed designed to support receiving AIS PGNs from a NMEA 2000 source. Similarly, these MFDs support transmission of GPS PGNs to a SeaTalkng/NMEA 2000 backbone to support their use by other devices which have been interfaced to the SeaTalkng/NMEA 2000 backbone. As such, should your third party VHF radio / AIS receiver/transceiver support reception GPS PGNs from a NMEA 2000 source and should it also support transmission of AIS PGNs (recommend checking the third party VHF radio / AIS receiver/transceiver's documentation or contacting the third party product manufacturer's technical support team), then the third party VHF radio / AIS receiver/transceiver may simply be interfaced as a spur to the SeaTalkng/NMEA 2000 backbone in the manner which you have described.