To plagiarize the Vendee Globe entrant, Yes We CAM! JUST GET THE RAM! I am trying to filter myself, after having several IPA's, but may have a hard time.
If you are counting on having a working portable next to you, when you need it most, it's not going to happen. The RAM is only a little over a hundred bucks, and if your current radio doesn't support that, then you need to upgrade. $250 will do it. In 2000, I went on a delivery with a dockmate to Florida from Lake Erie, and he was really good on the radio (he was also a pilot) and when he was trying to tell a little blowboater ahead of us on the Canal that he was going to be passing on his left, 'Those damn sailboats never respond to any VHS calls. I told him he probably didn't have anything in his cockpit. He looked a little incredulous, and I took note. Then a little later In Atlantic City, I was talking to a couple on a Swan I helped dock, and on my tour they showed me their new Standard Horizon RAM mic, and extolled all its virtues. I bought one within a month or returning home, and have gone through a few others since. One emergency will pay for it one hundredfold. The only thing you will regret is the hour or so trying to string the cable from the cockpit to the Nav Station, but after that you will be a happy camper. Bill Coleman Entrada, Erie, PA Hello All, Last season, my handheld VHF failed, and I find the nav station mounted radio is hard to hear from the helm unless it is very loud which doesn’t help kiddos napping on board. I have looked at upgrading the base station and adding a Ram mic, but that is a huge expense for something I don’t use all that much. A new handheld is also expensive and I find it a bit of a pain to always have to charge it. Seeing as we would like to add cockpit speakers to our stereo, I was thinking i could save a bunch of money and wire the speakers to both the VHF and the stereo and have a SPDT (on-off-on) switch on the circuit to choose between vhf to cockpit, stereo to cockpit, or cockpit speakers off. I have 0 experience wiring speakers, so I’m wondering if this is something that could work? Either way I want cockpit stereo speakers so I figure it’s worth a try to add the vhf since it won’t take much work or expense. The speakers do exceed the recommended minimum wattage and match the recommended impedance for an external speaker from the vhf manual. Any advice or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Cam C&C 38 mkII Checkmate Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - Stu
