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4 weeks ago I think it is a great idea. However, note that the vessel name must come from a message 5 which might not be available immediately (typically ships and helis broadcast mostly 1-3 and message 9). So, two things need to happen, we need to track for the relevant MMSIs when we receive a shipname and store it somewhere in a database and secondly still use the MMSI as callsign until we know what the shipname is. For helis this might never be received if they only send message 9.
Something to think about but requires some new logic, so I think it will be a bit more than one line of code.
Hi All,
Just wondering if it's possible or if it is an exotic request,
Is it possible to replace the MMSI callsign with a vessel name callsign, IE currently on VRS the callsign is displayed as "V:503405000", but I would like to display the vessels name in callsign "ACCOLADE II" instead if I have a vessel's name against a MMSI in my ICAO map or other. Even for aircraft, most of our recue aircraft in Australia have default fixed callsigns, MMSI 111503031: 0x7C7591 has a fixed callsign of RESC550 (Rescue 550) for example. Yes I changed a parameter to display the full MMSI from 6 to 9, I don't know if it's possible or just too hard, but would be a nice feature to have. I've been looking at the code and either just over looking a possible line on the code to make it work or over thinking.
Gary.