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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Barkley Sound Day 15 – “I didn’t sink!”
Wow, today was busy and long… Even though we never left the boat. Morgan had seemed to be getting to
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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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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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Dealing with my (ir)rational fear of an open ocean MOB
One of my biggest fears relative to our upcoming ocean crossing is the possibility of someone falling off of the
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New toys… and a plea to other boaters to use VHF DSC
It was Saturday and we were packing and getting ready for our 10 day trip in Puget Sound and the
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