[Public-List] VHF, DSC and GPS

[John Birch via Public-List]

Kris,
I imagine you checked the internal fuse or fuses in the VHF ?!
Cheers,
JB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kris Coward via Public-List" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
To: "Stephen Gwyn" <stephen.gwyn at gmail.com>; "Alberg 30 Public List -- open 
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Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Public-List] VHF, DSC and GPS


>
> I got a Garmin unit a few years back that spoke NMEA 0183; it was listed
> as being serial/RS-232, but it had only 4 wires, and the message set in
> the manual was NMEA 0183. I wired it into my VHF (though I had to do
> some terrible things with crimps and terminal blocks, since the plug and
> socket types were mismatched, and it worked for a few months before it
> overheated and stopped working entirely. I got another one to replace
> it, and wired it in the same as the first one, but it would appear that
> the first one burned out the radio end of the connection, and my VHF no
> longer has a working NMEA input (though it works otherwise).
>
> I've neither made time for a more detailed post-mortem on that
> situation, nor have I set aside budget for a VHF (and/or AIS) that'd
> give me the lost GPS functionality for DSC distress calls.
>
> I have an MMSI, and the Canadian Coast Guard also has a boat description
> for the MMSI, so apart from the GPS failure, I'm fully set up for DSC
> distress calls. I can't say that I've ever done much (i.e. anything) by
> way of routine DSC calling, though I got my VHF license just as it was
> starting to get rolled out, and the feature set seems nice.
>
> -K
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 01:51:33PM -0800, Stephen Gwyn via Public-List 
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a VHF with DSC capability, and sccepts NMEA 0183 as input.
>> But it doesn't have a built in GPS and my chart plotter doesn't
>> output a NMEA signal. I'd like to buy some sort of inexpensive
>> GPS unit that just outputs position. There are plenty of
>> USB GPS units these days, there ought to be a NMEA one.
>>
>> Does anybody know of such a unit?
>>
>> On a related note, what's the uptake of DSC these days?
>> Who has DSC? Who uses it? Does anybody even have a MMSI number?
>>
>> SG
>>
>>
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