On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:01:32 -0800, "Chuck Tribolet"
wrote:

And Larry seems to think that radio has to be tuned to 70 to receive DSC calls.
It doesn't. It scans 70, as nearly as I can tell, no matter what you do. It least my
SH Spectrum does, as does a buddy's more recent SH, and another buddy's
Icom.


The SC-101 class radios allow the user to disable the channel 70 scan,
effectively disabling DSC reception. My brother-in-law's new Icom 502
came set that way - confused us when I tried some DSC tests with him -
his older, cheaper Icom could receive my calls regardless of the
selected channel, but the new expensive unit had to be set to 70. (He
discovered this setting while reading the book later in the day, after
we'd left our boats - we assume that DSC reception will work as
expected once he enables the Ch70 scan)


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