On Oct 23, 10:29 am, HK wrote:
So, I was thinking, what with all the technological advances in
communications, why are we still stuck with VHF radios on our boats?
The limitations of VHF radio are obvious to all of us, so there's no
need to repeat them here. And I'm suggesting a move up to SSB or
satellite telephones.

Surely, there is a better way to handle boat to boat or boat to shore
communciations, with features like duplex, much greater range, less static.

Right?

Well, I always thought these did a pretty good job.

http://www.usswisconsin.org/Pictures...t%2024inc..JPG

"Tim" wrote in message
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On Oct 23, 10:29 am, HK wrote:
So, I was thinking, what with all the technological advances in
communications, why are we still stuck with VHF radios on our boats?
The limitations of VHF radio are obvious to all of us, so there's no
need to repeat them here. And I'm suggesting a move up to SSB or
satellite telephones.

Surely, there is a better way to handle boat to boat or boat to shore
communciations, with features like duplex, much greater range, less
static.

Right?

Well, I always thought these did a pretty good job.


http://www.usswisconsin.org/Pictures...t%2024inc..JPG


Ah, yet another example of digital communications.

Eisboch

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:23:08 -0400, Eisboch penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|
|"Tim" wrote in message
roups.com...
| On Oct 23, 10:29 am, HK wrote:
| So, I was thinking, what with all the technological advances in
| communications, why are we still stuck with VHF radios on our boats?
| The limitations of VHF radio are obvious to all of us, so there's no
| need to repeat them here. And I'm suggesting a move up to SSB or
| satellite telephones.
|
| Surely, there is a better way to handle boat to boat or boat to shore
| communciations, with features like duplex, much greater range, less
|static.
|
| Right?
|
| Well, I always thought these did a pretty good job.
|
|
|http://www.usswisconsin.org/Pictures...t%2024inc..JPG
|
|
|Ah, yet another example of digital communications.
|
|Eisboch

Cool, yeah.... and duplex, too!

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On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:53:18 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:23:08 -0400, Eisboch penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|
|"Tim" wrote in message
groups.com...
| On Oct 23, 10:29 am, HK wrote:
| So, I was thinking, what with all the technological advances in
| communications, why are we still stuck with VHF radios on our boats?
| The limitations of VHF radio are obvious to all of us, so there's no
| need to repeat them here. And I'm suggesting a move up to SSB or
| satellite telephones.
|
| Surely, there is a better way to handle boat to boat or boat to shore
| communciations, with features like duplex, much greater range, less
|static.
|
| Right?
|
| Well, I always thought these did a pretty good job.
|
|
|http://www.usswisconsin.org/Pictures...t%2024inc..JPG
|
|
|Ah, yet another example of digital communications.
|
|Eisboch

Cool, yeah.... and duplex, too!

Even bettererer....

http://www.fotosearch.com/bigcomp.as.../u15737827.jpg

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:08:20 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:53:18 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:
|
|On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:23:08 -0400, Eisboch penned the following well
|considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
|
||
||"Tim" wrote in message
egroups.com...
|| On Oct 23, 10:29 am, HK wrote:
|| So, I was thinking, what with all the technological advances in
|| communications, why are we still stuck with VHF radios on our boats?
|| The limitations of VHF radio are obvious to all of us, so there's no
|| need to repeat them here. And I'm suggesting a move up to SSB or
|| satellite telephones.
||
|| Surely, there is a better way to handle boat to boat or boat to shore
|| communciations, with features like duplex, much greater range, less
||static.
||
|| Right?
||
|| Well, I always thought these did a pretty good job.
||
||
||http://www.usswisconsin.org/Pictures...t%2024inc..JPG
||
||
||Ah, yet another example of digital communications.
||
||Eisboch
|
|Cool, yeah.... and duplex, too!
|
|Even bettererer....
|
|http://www.fotosearch.com/bigcomp.as.../u15737827.jpg

Now you've gone analog on me.....

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