Become a Rynda network station
Share AIS lines from your receiver — get the PRO plan for free.
Three steps to the first line
You already have an AIS receiver
An antenna and receiving software — at home, in the office, on the coast or on board. We do not provide equipment.
Sign up and “Add station”
In your account you get the address
feed.rynda.ioand your own port to enter in the receiver settings.First lines within minutes
As soon as your lines reach us, your account shows “We hear your station!”
The PRO plan for a working station
- The PRO plan for free after 7 days of work in a row: at least 20 hours a day with valid lines and at least one vessel heard. After 7 days we check the station ourselves and switch PRO on.
- 3 reports from one monthly allowance — a vessel dossier or a shipowner report, your choice.
- If your paid plan includes more reports, the paid plan applies.
- The reward is removed when all your stations are silent for 14 days or switched off.
What you share and what you agree to
- You share AIS lines from your own receiver.
- You agree that Rynda uses these lines in its products and services.
- We do not pass your station’s lines to third parties as a separate feed.
- We do not provide equipment — you need your own receiver.
- Only you and Rynda administrators see the exact antenna location. Publicly it is shown no more precisely than a few kilometres.
- Up to 5 stations per account.
- You can switch a station off at any time. Lines shared before that stay with us.
- The reward is not a payment: it is a free plan and a report allowance. The terms may change — we will notify you.
Full text: AIS Station Network Terms of Participation.
Receivers and software
Anything that can send AIS lines over UDP will do.
- docker-shipfeeder
- AIS-catcher
- rtl-ais
- Receiver or program with UDP output
What people ask most
Do I need a static IP address?
No. Your receiver sends lines to our address; no incoming connections to you are needed.
How much traffic does it use?
Very little: AIS lines take kilobytes per minute. An ordinary home connection is more than enough.
Can I connect several stations?
Yes, up to 5 stations per account. Each station gets its own port.
Can I connect a receiver on a ship at sea?
Yes. Enter the vessel MMSI in the station settings, and the antenna location will follow the ship. If the location falls behind (for example, after a long break in connection at sea), data resumes once the ship is back within range of coastal stations, or you can update the location with Edit.
Who sees my data?
See the terms of participation: lines go into Rynda products and services and are not passed to third parties as a separate feed; only you and administrators see the exact antenna location.
Connect your station
Signing up takes a couple of minutes; the first lines arrive as soon as your receiver is set up.