Thread: Dsc
View Single Post
Old 07-12-2010, 08:01 AM   #9
skipperdude
Guru
 
skipperdude's Avatar
 
City: Whittier AK
Vessel Name: Apache II
Vessel Model: 1974 Donald Jones
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,147
Re: Dsc

My Radio is an Icom M422.* If you ask me* Icom has a pretty screwed up way of making the connections for the DSC.

The biggest problem is that the wires are about 18 ga and they are co-axel.
*To make the connection you have to strip back the co-axel and twist it up to butt splice to your ground .
Then the data or hot which is about a 24 ga wire gets spliced.
*Call me pickie but I like a nice tight wireing set up. *This just looks ganglie.

The smallest butt splice I can find are the pink or red ones, the ones that are heat shrinkable. They are to big. The only thing I could was to wrap it up with electrical tape.* It seems to me there should be a connection of some sort for that small a ga of co axel.

Sure it works. It just isn't tidy.

SD
skipperdude is offline   Reply With Quote