"Roger Long" wrote in news:V8SCf.147297$XC4.73371
@twister.nyroc.rr.com:

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.



Wrong radios. The Icom M602 VHF and M802 HF both display lat/long
continuously. I believe the cheaper M502 does, also.

I wouldn't suspect the West Marine/Uniden cheap crap to display anything
but the channel you're on.