Okay, it's morning, and I've calmed down. So, either hook up your speakers, get a new portable, or install a ram, whatever. It's all good. But I still like the RAM🐏
Bill Coleman On Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 8:33 PM Bill Coleman via CnC-List < [email protected]> wrote: > > 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
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
