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Fix junk characters in AIS on Raymarine MFDs#373

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Fix junk characters in AIS on Raymarine MFDs#373
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Raymarine Axiom (at least) do not grok AIS strings padded with 0xff and expect padding with 0x40. I do not know if this applies to all STRING_FIX in all NMEA messages; so this is a surgical fix until more information is gathered.
"It fixes it for me" and probably warrants more data collection.

Other users report the same issue:
https://forum.openmarine.net/showthread.php?tid=4681

Raymarine Axiom (at least) do not grok AIS strings padded with 0xff
and expect padding with 0x40. I do not know if this applies to all
STRING_FIX in all NMEA messages; so this is a surgical fix until more
information is gathered.
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