wicked
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Silva S15 DSC problem
Hi - anyone have any ideas:
I have a Silva S15 DSC radio with NAVTEX. Whenever a NAVTEX message is received the radio bleeps very loudly, which wakes people up at night. You cannot silence the bleeps by turning the volume right down - it makes no difference.
If you leave the boat unattended during the day with the radio on and a DSC Distress or other alarm goes off, then the alarm goes on for ever at high volume until someone eventually breaks into your boat to shut it up - but you have to leave the radio on if you want to get the NAVTEX!!.
I'm clearly not going to get anywhere by approaching Silva to get them to modify the firmware, and I realise now that a separete NAVTEX unit would have been preferable, but there may be an answer.
Has anyone managed to disable the internal speaker and rely just on the external speaker which could be disconnected at night or when the boat is left unatended ? If so do you need to substitute a resistor to replace the speaker load?
Thanks in anticipation for any advice.
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Hi - anyone have any ideas:
I have a Silva S15 DSC radio with NAVTEX. Whenever a NAVTEX message is received the radio bleeps very loudly, which wakes people up at night. You cannot silence the bleeps by turning the volume right down - it makes no difference.
If you leave the boat unattended during the day with the radio on and a DSC Distress or other alarm goes off, then the alarm goes on for ever at high volume until someone eventually breaks into your boat to shut it up - but you have to leave the radio on if you want to get the NAVTEX!!.
I'm clearly not going to get anywhere by approaching Silva to get them to modify the firmware, and I realise now that a separete NAVTEX unit would have been preferable, but there may be an answer.
Has anyone managed to disable the internal speaker and rely just on the external speaker which could be disconnected at night or when the boat is left unatended ? If so do you need to substitute a resistor to replace the speaker load?
Thanks in anticipation for any advice.
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