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Agree 100%.
Why you shouldn't buy a Lowrance LVR-250 DSC VHF
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l'escargot
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if you look at the screen it will tell you why it is bleeping - it may be something as simple as letting you know it can't get a GPS fix because you haven't set it up correctly... The age old advice of RTFM still holds good
mainsail
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Thanks very much! It's working!!!
OSTELL - Thanks very much for your advice about connecting green NMEA lead from the VHF to ground (battery negative). I thought I'd tried every permutation under the sun - but evidently not that one.
Once I did that, it worked. Thanks so much! I owe you half a lager for that one!!
OSTELL - Thanks very much for your advice about connecting green NMEA lead from the VHF to ground (battery negative). I thought I'd tried every permutation under the sun - but evidently not that one.
Once I did that, it worked. Thanks so much! I owe you half a lager for that one!!
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ostell
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Glad it worked. Been there, sweated over that.
The alarm from the radio, as somebody has already mentioned, could well be the lack of GPS data. My last radio used to scream at me if the GPS data was not there after about 5 minutes or so from being switched on. Current radio doesn't (wish it did) so I'd forgotten about that one.
So you should now have a radio that behaves and doesn't scream at you.
The alarm from the radio, as somebody has already mentioned, could well be the lack of GPS data. My last radio used to scream at me if the GPS data was not there after about 5 minutes or so from being switched on. Current radio doesn't (wish it did) so I'd forgotten about that one.
So you should now have a radio that behaves and doesn't scream at you.
mainsail
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Why no one might hear you...
Thanks again Ostell. If I'd relied on the manuals I'd still be struggling to sort out that connection.
Meanwhile I thought I'd just include a couple of shots of the Lowrance LVR250 microphone - following the debate earlier on in this thread. My thumb is on the transmit button. .....Spot the microphone hole.
Thanks again Ostell. If I'd relied on the manuals I'd still be struggling to sort out that connection.
Meanwhile I thought I'd just include a couple of shots of the Lowrance LVR250 microphone - following the debate earlier on in this thread. My thumb is on the transmit button. .....Spot the microphone hole.
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l'escargot
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Looks like a right handed mike - see if they have got a left handed one
Has it stopped bleeping at you now you've got a GPS signal?
ostell
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Must admit not the best of designs. At least my own mic has the hole in the centre, away from fingers.
Iain C
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Amazing thread. iPads are for posers? Possibly 3 years ago but not now. I actually consider my iPad to be an almost essential bit of sailing kit. I mean why wouldn't you want a device on board that costs a couple of hundred quid that does all of the following?
Weather forecasts via the web or apps
Keeping in touch with friends via email
Tide apps showing you heights and streams in real time, anywhere
Going online to book a berth or consult a forum about the best pub/anchorage/marine engineer in the area
Download the days pictures from your camera to a viewable size, and share with friends and family via email
Real time AIS display
And of course a chartplotter that it can just pick up and put on deck to make sure you know where you are on a first time night approach, or take to the pub with the crew to work out tomorrow's destination
Of course I still carry paper charts and have a dedicated GPS etc but I've just comes back from a 2 week cruise and my iPad was just so very, very useful...
Weather forecasts via the web or apps
Keeping in touch with friends via email
Tide apps showing you heights and streams in real time, anywhere
Going online to book a berth or consult a forum about the best pub/anchorage/marine engineer in the area
Download the days pictures from your camera to a viewable size, and share with friends and family via email
Real time AIS display
And of course a chartplotter that it can just pick up and put on deck to make sure you know where you are on a first time night approach, or take to the pub with the crew to work out tomorrow's destination
Of course I still carry paper charts and have a dedicated GPS etc but I've just comes back from a 2 week cruise and my iPad was just so very, very useful...
maby
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Just wish they were made by someone other than Apple!
KevinT1
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You can get all of that on an Android device - like Iain says I couldn't do without my Samsung Galaxy tab
Of course if Apple get their way Samsung will not be selling them for much longer
Of course if Apple get their way Samsung will not be selling them for much longer
maby
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Hmmm, just wish that Android came from someone other than Google!
2nd_apprentice
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Like who? Microsoft, IBM, Digital Research?
How about a non-profit organisation run by Peppa Pig, Hello Kitty and Winnie the Pooh.
maby
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I would be happy with any of the above - well possibly not Peppa Pig!
elton
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It didn't come from Google. It came from Android Inc.
maby
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OK - let me rephrase that - I wish that Google had not got their sticky, sinister hands on it...
mainsail
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Left Handed Mike
Hi L'escargot. Yes it has stopped bleeping at me now thanks.
Re the microphone - I suspect the microphone - like all VHF mics - is a left-handed one because (no matter what the make) they all seem to be connected to the left hand side of the sets . ...However your post was an inspiration. I'm now going to try it in my right hand .....just as soon as I work out which one that is
Looks like a right handed mike - see if they have got a left handed one
Has it stopped bleeping at you now you've got a GPS signal?
Hi L'escargot. Yes it has stopped bleeping at me now thanks.
Re the microphone - I suspect the microphone - like all VHF mics - is a left-handed one because (no matter what the make) they all seem to be connected to the left hand side of the sets
. ...However your post was an inspiration. I'm now going to try it in my right hand .....just as soon as I work out which one that is mainsail
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Just to update every one, today my Lowrance LVR-250 DSC VHF failed in use. The screen went blank and I could neither transmit or receive . The screen's night light still works but nothing else does. What a heap of ****.
prv
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Get a Standard Horizon to replace it.
They've finally taken the obvious step of including GPS in their new models, so that even numpties who can't join two wires together can join in.
Pete
