adornato
Senior Member
- Joined
- Oct 10, 2007
- Messages
- 121
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Sarah McLean
- Vessel Make
- Mainship 30 Pilot
a few weeks ago i shipped my 2017 new to me Raymarine VHF to New Hampshire from California to install the new MMSI.
couple of hours of work and a 150 dollars later received unit and installed with MMSI and upgraded software.
today on maiden voyage, there was awful intermittent static on channel 16.
i was thinking "here we go again", take out radio , bundle it up, take to UPS, phone calls, emails, etc etc..
funny how we think catastrophic.
then i switched to channel 9 or channel 22.. no static.
I called USCG on channel and asked if they were having problems with channel 16.
Yup.. " dont know what it is, they said" an hour later, no static on 16
sometimes it pays to slow down
couple of hours of work and a 150 dollars later received unit and installed with MMSI and upgraded software.
today on maiden voyage, there was awful intermittent static on channel 16.
i was thinking "here we go again", take out radio , bundle it up, take to UPS, phone calls, emails, etc etc..
funny how we think catastrophic.
then i switched to channel 9 or channel 22.. no static.
I called USCG on channel and asked if they were having problems with channel 16.
Yup.. " dont know what it is, they said" an hour later, no static on 16
sometimes it pays to slow down