On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:29:15 -0400, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:

Sailor is a REALLY nice marine SSB but the ones I have seen are almost
impossible to tune on Ham bands. THe Icom 802 is a lot more flexable if
not quite as high quality.

As Larry's sig almost always has his W4 (indicating his age :-)) call
sign on it I suspect that Ham bands are important to him. :-)

Press 3 buttons while turning the Icom M802 on and its transceive
frequency range expands to 1.6-30 Mhz.....including all the ham bands.
Before turning the boat over to the "just sailor" clan, press the 3
buttons again and it switches the HF SSB back over so it will only
transmit on the pre-programmed marine channels....more goof-proof for
the CB crowd....(c;

73, Larry W4CSC......er, ah, which IS a vanity call because I'm NOT
THAT OLD!! I was SO young they had run out of K2 calls so I had to
get WA2 then WB4 when I moved to SC in '64....(c;

Whisky Four Charleston South Carolina.........is the idea...


Larry W4CSC

3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million
gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air
conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right?