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I use the Icom SP-35 speaker for my Wouxun KG-1000g and my Icom IC-2730B. You can usually find the SP-35 on Amazon for $35. They are plenty loud. The Wouxun will drive the Icom SP-35 just fine. I normally don't turn the volume up past 5 or 6 on my KG-1000G in the car. A common mistake that some make is trying to use a y adaptor plugged into both speaker ports on the KG-1000G going into 1 speaker. You get an impedance mismatch when trying to run one speaker plugged into both radio speaker ports and the sound level will very low. The only way I have found to run a single speaker is to use a dual mono to stereo y adapter AND a stereo speaker with dual speakers in the housing. A single channel speaker will not work. Now if you need something louder, there are the Midland 20 watt speakers. I have the 20 watt SPK-100 speaker on my SxS and I can hear the radio just fine while cursing down gravel roads at 35 mph. And I don't have to crank the radio volume way up either.

I was aware that you are required to monitor 16 while out on the water and why. The info of recommended channels for “chatting” was new to me. My dad had a commercial fishing boat. Sadly I get pretty sea sick so I’ve kept my boating to the bay, lakes and streams. Still I liked the info.

the good ole days.

I made a clock bit by bit using machine language. That was fun. Saved as a .com file.

Mine came with them in the bag. Maybe email them and let them know they were missing and see if they will send you new ones.

Depends if that frequency and tone are connected to a repeater that the owner doesn't want others to use.

Not when there is something like 260 combined tones and DCS codes to choose from. Absolutely no reason you need to use what someone else is using just because you can. But you do you, I really don't care.

I went from Vic-20 to C-64 and then to Apple Macintosh... been personally on Mac's ever since but also have a windows machine provided by my employer. But what I learned on the vic-20 and c-64 learning BASIC.. inspired me to love programming as well as design (and now I do both programming and design for website work)

Yep... that is the site I use.

The numbers I provided are the RF horizon. But, yes, typically the RF horizon is about 15% further than the visual horizon.

I am not interested in that at all. However, I am interested in using a frequency and tone that I have a legal right to use. That probably doesn't make sense to you.

Real ones were so much better, it never entered your mind that the ones you were playing with could have been made in 'China'

THANKS GUYS JEFF

You just got a bad box. They may have fallen out ect… comet sent me replacements for my 712efc, 6nc and 9nc for free when I moved I lost the box I had them stored In.

I bought the antenna a couple of months ago and didn't open the package until yesterday. I was surprised to find there were no ground plane radials included. Is this normal, or did I just get unlucky? It wasn't too big a deal, because I bought some 10" pieces of all-thread which should work just fine. The thread size is M5-0.8, in case you're interested. It seems to me that the radials are something which should be included. Maybe mine just slipped through that part of the assembly line.

I wouldn't consider the NEC a 'bare minimum' but more so of a 'standard' Some manufactures of electrical equipment may 'suggest' additional steps or recommendations beyond the 'standard' but defiantly not required.. However some manufacture may require their recommendations for warranty purposes but i dont know if any manufactures that do.

Rubbish, that only points out the bare minimum requirements, but not what is optimal and yields a higher degree of safety and functionality. I look at the NEC the same way, a guide to get by with minimal effort. I've seen way too much substandard abominations the "met" code, but is an embarrassment to the trade. Plus, not all inspectors are created equal..

A fixed-mount marine radio with a big antenna mounted on the top (third?) deck at max power (25W IIRC) transmits many farz when the only obstacle is the earth's curvature. Another good reference for those new to the subject: https://www.boatingworld.com/articles/boating/vhf-radio-your-ultimate-guide/

There is a very slight difference, one protects the welfare of workers while doing installations and includes certain electrical guidlines, whiel the other outlines the actual electrical guidelines.. One of these guidelines came before the other. I actually attended a class on this in 1986 and i still remember.. Do you know whichy guideline came before the other than adopted the one before? You might have to do some studing on that one. Carrry on

Wrong Again - No Lesson - A Mis Read On Your Part - Again..... NFPA 70 Is The Standard For The Nation Electrical Code.

or the National Electric code is NFPA.. Read.. Carry on I told you at the end of the day we would agree, but stubborn you wanted to keep on arguing

NFPA 70 Is The National Electrical Code Sir.....

I eally cant leave you without giving you another lesson. However, this one will require you some excersise of reading.. Carry on.. Get back to me. https://alliedmoulded.com/nfpa-vs-nec-understanding-the-key-distinctions/

I'll stick with the national electric code... at the end of the day, we should agree on everything.. Get Back to me there fella..

remember the days when we watched TV off Antennas.. One could easly pick up VHF signals 100's mile away and it didn't always requrie line of site.. The same broadcast and from the same site in UHF never faired as well. UHF reception always required line of site and distance was drastically cut short. Marnie Radio is VHF, where cell is UHF.. VHF signals tend to work bounce back and forth between the earth and the ionosphere where UHF signals don't under most conditions making VHF a lot more reliable in the water