On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:26:39 GMT, "Roger Long"
wrote:

True, but I'm just looking at coastal sailing in Maine at this point.
There are a lot of boats around and many of them commercial and USCG
inspected so it's pretty likely someone will pick up the signal.

Coastal Maine there is always someone around on channel 16. It's
really difficult to get out of sight of at least several working
lobster boats in my experience. You have to speak their language of
course, ayep.

Ignoring all the other stuff already posted, I comment that my cockpit radio
has DSC - at 99 bux.

My nav table radio, with hailer, and DSC, was all of 169 bux.

Anyone who can afford to be offshore shouldn't be unable to buy one of these
straight up, never mind "upgrading"...

Now, I'm looking for the integrated handheld GPS/VHF with that feature :{))

PS the SSB has it, too - and that *isn't* reliant on LOS tx/rx...

L8R

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