Silva S10 DSC & VHF

[Wai_Tapu]

Is it just me missing something, or do others find the same 'feature' with these radios? I like to use the Memory Scan function to cycle through my memorised channels when not actually using the radio. BUT, every time I switch the radio on, it has not remembered my choices, but apparently randomly chooses a few to put in memory. Ny previous, ancient radio had no problems remembering from one session to the next, even over the winter lift-out! Others' experiences or a fix welcome
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[billskip]

Possible that a permenant feed is not connected ,maybe the switched feed removes all power and memory cancelled. maybe your installation requires a seperate permenant feed to keep memory....just a thought..

 

[Wai_Tapu]

Thanks for the thought, but as I recall there is no provision for a permanent supply and it remembers all the MMSI and last GPS position, so why not my selected channels?
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[FullCircle]

Its the orange wire and needs to be perm connected to live feed, and off course ships ground. Takes about 0.05amp according to my little meter. Do a similar thing to the onboard CD player, and in my case, the Webasto digital heater controller

 

[pvb]

According to the manual, it doesn't have an orange wire.

 

[pyrojames]

I had one of those for about 4 weeks, and got thoughly fed up with it. Sent it back and got an Icom instead.

 

[oceanfroggie]

Ditto that. ICOM's software and implementations of Dual and Tri-watch, and their priority scanning are truely excellent. You get what you pay for. The S10/S15 are good functional low cost sets, but I dislike their awkward ergonomics and software. The only reason I tried the S15 was for the integrated Navtex option, which I found poor compared to wireless web based weather solutions. Navtex is so 1980's - like telex /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Wai_Tapu]

If it is of any interest, I eventually solved the problem after trying a few "try this" ideas from Silva. There is an internal battery to maintain user selected choices! Mine had been flat from day 1 18 months ago. Replaced with the latest 'Nexus' version with no quibble by Silva after I sent it back with a covering letter. And I was wrong about holding the MMSI numbers - they were disappearing too. Now functioning as I expect and I am reasonably happy with this budget DSC radio /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif