Standard Horizion GX2200
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tsturm":20djrkh1 said:I picked up a GX2200 AIS/GPS/VHF a week or two back finished the install & tried it out yesterday. Very nice, economical, easy to use / wire unit!!!
the gpsstore.com @ $299.00 -$40.00 rebate, & free shipping to AK, = not bad!!!
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Great radio, and excellent functionality. IMPORTANT!!! Do you have an MMSI number programmed into it? and do you have it set up to send AIS data to your chart plotter?
The addition of the MMSI number enables the DSC function for emergency "one button" use.
Also, are you using the Automatic fog horn capability?
That VHF has a lot of features available.
Harvey
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hardee":196c4gb3 said:tsturm":196c4gb3 said:I picked up a GX2200 AIS/GPS/VHF a week or two back finished the install & tried it out yesterday. Very nice, economical, easy to use / wire unit!!!
the gpsstore.com @ $299.00 -$40.00 rebate, & free shipping to AK, = not bad!!!
Great radio, and excellent functionality. IMPORTANT!!! Do you have an MMSI number programmed into it? and do you have it set up to send AIS data to your chart plotter?
The addition of the MMSI number enables the DSC function for emergency "one button" use.
Also, are you using the Automatic fog horn capability?
That VHF has a lot of features available.
Harvey
Plotter & MMSI yes, fog horn & loud hailer no.
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tsturm, Good for you. BoatUS article a while back said that less than half of the new VHF installations that are DSC capable, are installed with MMSI numbers included. The horn and hailer are more a personal choice. In our PNW area the fog generally comes along with some great cruising weather, so I did the horn too. I use it on occasion, and the hailer almost never. Where I do use teh hailer is coming into the marina, on the listen mode, to know if someone is yelling at me.
Harvey
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colbysmith
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I never thought about using my hailer for that. (Listening mode coming into the marina.) But due to the last two replies, probably just as well.
Marco Flamingo
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I've never used the fog horn, but generally use the listening mode when in fog. The listening mode can be extremely sensitive.
Mark
Mark
Marco Flamingo":3ck4w9n4 said:
YES it is, amazingly so.
Curious, why not use the fog horn when in the fog. Just seems logical to me. I also think, that there is a requirement to use any available adjunct to meet the current conditions.
If visibility is impaired, then navigation lights, and all around light, are required. For me, I think answering to the USCG investigator would be less stressful if all navigational adjuncts are operating. Also might make that less likely to have to happen.
Harvey
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Marco Flamingo":2paude3b said:
Mark, what do you use for your fog horn?
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The beauty of the radio/fog horn is that i relieves you of the obligation of observing your watch, or a timer, and making some acceptable sound, with an air horn, or some other device every two minutes. On our larger boats we had a powerful air horn, and an automatic timer on the solenoid valve. That is a bit of over kill for a C Dory.
colbysmith
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Chuck, the GX2150 (and looks like the GX2200 also) have listening modes with the loud hailer. Basically just like having a big microphone outside your boat. Colby
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Two Bears":325ydbck said:
The 2200:
Every radio with a loud hailer i have had over the last 30 or so years has had the listen back feature. Basically, the speaker is used as a microphone. The loud hailer speakers are relatively small, Not hi fi by any means. Help ful especially in a large boat, or in a pilot house boat, so you can hear both the "mate" on the deck, without yelling. Some folks have fog horn/ radios (I happen to be one of those, but I don't have the second horn hooked up). So you can listen "aft"--as well as forward. The sound is somewhat directional.
Two Bears":rwxpuazk said:
Hey Chuck, Yup, it was one of my dreams, along with having a boat that had it's own name on it..... but that's another story. Actually, (the loud hailer and listen back) features mentioned above are right. The hailer is good out to about 100 feet, and the listen back will pick up voice from about that far. I use the listen back when coming into the marinas on a regular basis. The hailer, I use rarely.
Harvey
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Marco Flamingo
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hardee":2wkigp0a said:
You might be underestimating the effectiveness of the listen feature. I have used it to listen to hushed conversations clear across the marina. 100 yards and more easily and since it is fairly directional, it cuts out noises from behind and to the sides (assuming one forward speaker). That's how you find good fishing spots.
In the fog, I am sometimes startled by a sudden loud engine noise only to realize that it is just a bird taking off 1/2 mile away. That's one of the limitations of the hearing feature, it is not stereophonic, meaning that when you do hear an engine or, just as likely, two guys talking while fishing, you have to go on deck. Once on deck, you'll realize that you can't hear the noise that you just listened to. I'd likely be going slow enough so that with a little weaving I can get a good idea of the direction of the noise. I still go on deck a lot in a fog (the weather, not me).
Mark
As to my fog horn use or non-use, I am not always in exact compliance with USCG regulations. I have also occasionally exceed the legal speed limit when driving. I don't recommend either to anybody. Also, anybody is free to claim that they are a better, safer, and more handsome boater or driver than I am.
Thanks Mark, I have never used the hailer in a conversation at anything over 100 feet or so. I have used it at that distance for conversations with other vessels/paddlers etc. You are right, though, and I have heard voices from farther out.
BTW, I think you are the only person I know who has ever driven over the speed limit. :shock: scary :wink:
Harvey
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BTW, I think you are the only person I know who has ever driven over the speed limit. :shock: scary :wink:
Harvey
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