A VHF Handheld To Float With

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Navagear brings us info on Standard’s new floating handheld VHF:

Standard Horizon HX850S VHF/GPS DSC Floating Submersible RadioStandard Horizon HX850S VHF/GPS DSC Floating RadioNot that I spend a lot of waking OR sleeping hours dreaming about handheld VHF radios, mind you. Still, this thing is pretty dang cool.

Behold the Standard Horizon HX850S VHF/GPS DSC Floating Submersible Radio. I’d link to the manufacturer’s site, but there isn’t any info about this model up there yet?!

Apparently, there’s actually a good reason for this. After berating Standard-Horizon for their lack of a press release about this new product, Panbo learned that Standard-Horizon is still awaiting final FCC certification for the product. Oh golly, not another cool product in limbo because of the FCC!!

Thanks Tim.

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Captain John Konrad is co-founder of Unofficial Networks and Editor In Chief of this blog. He is a USCG licensed Master Mariner of Unlimited Tonnage and, since graduating from SUNY Maritime College, has sailed a variety of ships from ports around the world. John currently lives in Morro Bay, California with his wife and two children.

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    Most of Standard's radios are big brown bricks... this one looks much better.
  • That would be a great feature!

    DSC is tricky, I could see problems with new users "testing" it too often. We already have a problem with relay spam... I could could see similar problems with new user spam.
  • I see potential issues with a DSC handheld, if the GPS is built in. DSC numbers are registered to vessels and not radios.

    A handheld is easily moved from vessel to vessel. If the DSC emergency function is used, the CG and others could be looking for the wrong vessel.

    There needs to be a way to easily disable the DSC function if it exists, as I expect it does bucasue of the display on the radio.
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