A VHF Handheld To Float With

A VHF Handheld To Float With

January 18th, 2008 · CommentsA+VHF+Handheld+To+Float+With2008-01-18+14%3A08%3A28John - by John -

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

Standard 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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Tags: · dsc, Gear, GMDSS, handheld vhf, standard horizon, vhf radio

CommentsA+VHF+Handheld+To+Float+With2008-01-18+14%3A08%3A28John so far ↓

1 Richard Rodriguez // Jan 18, 2008 at 9:28 am

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.
2 Richard Rodriguez // Jan 18, 2008 at 10:28 am

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.
3 John // Jan 18, 2008 at 6:39 pm

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.
4 John // Jan 18, 2008 at 7:39 pm

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.
5 admin // Jan 19, 2008 at 5:11 am

Most of Standard’s radios are big brown bricks… this one looks much better.
6 admin // Jan 19, 2008 at 6:11 am

Most of Standard’s radios are big brown bricks… this one looks much better.

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