Fun With Radios: Failure Edition
Sometimes it’s just time… On Mobert, our primary VHF radio is an Icom ic-m422 Marine radio which is installed at
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Technology
Bishop Bay to Kumealeon
Our morning at Bishop Bay was Lazy, eventually we pulled anchor and headed out of the bay and around Grinnell
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Making Sure You See What Your Radar Sees…
Mobert is now just about 10 years old and as such the Raymarine electronics that she came with are of the
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Child Over Board! Ack!
Okay, so in the previous two posts I’ve talked about Man-Over-Board and various systems for detecting and helping recover the
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Know when to hold ’em, know when to walk away… (from the head that is.)
I can knock another project off the list. One thing we didn’t have visibility into was how full the holding
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How the AIS-SART Shows up on screen
Yesterday I successfully tested the VHF-DSC and AIS transmission features of the OceanSignal MOB1 attached to one of our lifejackets. First
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Proximity MOBs, SARTS, and PLBs..
When last I wrote, I went on about my fear of man overboard conditions and then introduced three types of
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