As a civilian Department of the Navy marine electronics technician with 35 years of experience, I DO have a clue. Shipboard Navy personnel do not...
I sent an email to the ship on Saturday and they replied thanking me for the information and that they have informed the ships navigator and hope...
Turns out that this is a brand new ship on it's way to it's commissioning ceremony in Florida next month. The error was probably done by...
Well, you'd think those "professionals" in the US Navy would get it right, but I see a Navy warship at anchor on a port visit with the first three...
Mandatory ships did not have to be fully compliant with GMDSS until Feb of 1999 but they still were required to monitor channel 16 until Feb of...
FCC part 80.5 Definitions Ship or vessel. Ship or vessel includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance, except...
ALL US vessels traveling to or communicating with a foreign port must have a station license, including voluntary/recreational vessels. Voluntary...
Milltech Marine has one for $495. Installation is easy, but if you can't do it, then yes there will be installation costs. An FCC station license...
There are class B transponders available for less than $500 and they are relatively easy to install. Eric
I'm not at all sure of your point. Recreational boaters who are using class B transponders cannot enter voyage data. They can't feed the unit with...
In the U.S., end users are not allowed to program any data into their class B transponders. It must be done by the vendor or professional...
Go to marinetraffic.com and see for yourself. More and more recreational boaters are using transponders as opposed to receive only as the price...
With the U.S. version, you would normally program a scratchpad memory channel for receive/transmit use. You get into that mode by pressing all...
Here's the original keypad available from Jameco. I changed the bottom row and the right button on the next row up. I just used a graphics program...
Iv'e used a keyboard available from mcm electronics on a couple 222's. I just mounted it to the front panel after removing a section of the old...
