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Default Boat Radios, or Why I am not an Engineer

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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