Digital Selective Calling.

Anyone try using it yet? Anyone using it regularly. Anyone have their
MMSI? How many people have connected their VHF-DSC radio to their GPS
to broadcast position? How many people even know what DSC is, let alone
how to use it?

I've had my MMSI installed for a few years now, but I have yet to make
or receive a DSC call, nor have I yet heard a DSC emergency distress
call - which should signal every DSC radio in range. I don't know
anybody else's MMSI, although I do know one person in our boating group
who says he has his (and no, its not because I don't have any friends,
wise guys).

USPS has a nifty DSC simulator you can load onto your computer and I've
been playing with it (as well as teaching their new VHF-DSC how-to
seminar). DSC is pretty cool, but I can see how it could be a bit
complicated or cumbersome for some.

I'm just wondering how people feel about DSC, and if this is going to
catch on at all.

Larry Weiss
"...Ever After!"