Roger Long wrote:
I just made a quick stop at West Marine during my son's guitar lesson
and it appears I was led astray the first time I looked at the new
radios. None of them (according to the story this time) show the Lat
Long on their display so a GPS receiver without a display wouldn't be
a back up except for the distress signal.

The salesman also told me that the USCG is not currently receiving
position information on the channel 70 calls, at least in the
Northeast. Does anyone know the status of the Coast Guard system? I
don't see much point in buying one of these until they are with the
program.

Roger,
Whoever you talked to at WM was not very well informed on the products
he was selling. All the radio's I looked at had Lat-Long display
including the Icom and the WM 500 which is a WM brand marked Icom.
krj