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Showing posts with label radio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label radio. Show all posts
Thursday, October 17, 2013

VHF upgrade project

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Please welcome new contributors Rick & Dar aboard m/v September Dream !  I think you will enjoy following along with them as they cruis...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

New HF/SSB Backstay Offset

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Paul on s/v Solace deals with a convenient but inappropriate hand hold... Solace HF/SSB antenna cable ran down the backstay with a two...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Adding NMEA GPS Location to a VHF Radio

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Over on s/v Astrea , Nate introduces his VHF to his GPS... It all started when I turned on the Furuno RDP-149 NavNet VX2 chartplotter and...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Parasitic losses

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If you have an SSB, you are probably like most boats - you have an insulated backstay for an antenna.  And because that insulated backstay i...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Music in Margaritaville

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Steve and Lulu on s/v Siempre Sabado find a way around the "marine tax" on "marine" speakers: Been trying to come up w...
Monday, March 14, 2011

On being well-grounded

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Maintaining a good ground for your SSB without compromising your DC grounding system and thereby causing electrolytic or galvanic corrosion ...
Monday, November 8, 2010

Liquid antenna

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If there is one thing cruising boats have plenty of, it is sea water.  Everyone uses it as the ground or counterpoise in their antenna syst...
Monday, November 1, 2010

Standoffish?

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One of the problems with running this blog is that I end up with lots things that I see that I need to do. This is another... I have been ...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

VHF: handheld vs remote?

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If you were in trouble and needed to send a Mayday, which radio would you want to use?  The one in your hand with the 4" antenna 6'...
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