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05-29-2010, 09:08 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: marshfield
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vhf reception
is there anything i can do to get better radio reception/transmission? i've got a 6' antenae but in my boat it still pretty low (no t top). i rarely use/listen to it because it sucks. is there some sort of booster for the antenae/radio i can get?
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my 1st wife didn't like me fishing so much
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05-29-2010, 09:24 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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Digital antenna
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LETS GO BRANDON
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05-30-2010, 08:03 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Marshfield, MA
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Shakespere antennas I have always read and found to be excellent. Haven't read anything about the digital and whether that would be compatible with your existing unit. Even thou your unit is low should be usable. Clean antenna connection??? Is your radio in the weather or in the console? Even thou it is "waterproof" maybe it took a hit. Or the routing of the cable too close to other noisy wires?
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Jon, 24' Nauset-Green Topsides, Beamie, North River. Channel 68/69. MSBA, NIBA
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06-01-2010, 09:54 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Gloucester Massachusetts
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When you connected antenna wire to radio did you solder it in or just attached same?
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06-01-2010, 10:05 AM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie
Digital antenna
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i hear all good about Digital antenna.
I had an 8ft Shakespeare on my center console (no ttop) and would get 20 miles easy. Picked up NWC chatter from Gloucester harbor..
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06-01-2010, 03:14 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: marshfield
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i think i'm going to start from scratch, new all around. any brand of radio better than others. looking to spend 200 on the radio. mr h - you splash that new rig yet?
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my 1st wife didn't like me fishing so much
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06-01-2010, 05:37 PM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
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i just picked up a standard horizon gx1500 for 140$ from boemarine.
works great.
sure did.
my season just opened up a few months 
Little tricky at the launch with some wind while your waiting for the knuckleheads to pull out.
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06-01-2010, 05:41 PM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
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ps... thats the fiance's bag  |
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06-01-2010, 05:42 PM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
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FYI: I have the Uniden Solara with DSC (digital calling feature). Not sure the DSC is active in the NE area yet as haven't found a person to call using it.
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 Given the diversity of the human species, there is no “normal” human genome sequence. We are all mutants.
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06-01-2010, 05:45 PM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PRBuzz
FYI: I have the Uniden Solara with DSC (digital calling feature). Not sure the DSC is active in the NE area yet as haven't found a person to call using it.
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got mine hooked up (and working) too... uses your mmsi number correct? |
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06-01-2010, 06:23 PM
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Location: marshfield
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sure it's the fiances bag
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my 1st wife didn't like me fishing so much
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06-01-2010, 06:41 PM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
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that is sooooooooooooo not my color  |
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06-01-2010, 07:32 PM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MrHunters
got mine hooked up (and working) too... uses your mmsi number correct?
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Yes MMSI but need 2 to talk....mine = 338077114 |
Given the diversity of the human species, there is no “normal” human genome sequence. We are all mutants.
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06-01-2010, 07:37 PM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
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