Choose a VHF Radio for a Boat
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Hi Jeff good to here with Pacific out systems we're gonna talk about nexus VHF radios VHF radios are really good to do ship to ship communication and ship to shore communications when you're looking for a VHF radio what are you looking for you're gonna be looking for are you gonna have a radio for example like here that's going to be - mounted you can even have that mounted on a U. bracket are you gonna have a VHF radio that there's only the Mike outside and it's the VHF radio there's no place on your - actually melt the VHF you're gonna have a remote Mike only are you gonna have multiple stations are you gonna have a remote Mike in the cockpit and a VHF radio the cabin gives all these different choices that you have when you're looking for a VHF radio yeah I think you're gonna want to consider is he gonna want obviously in all modern VHF radios have that DSE function that's really important sort of like a 911 especially when you built it in with or you have connectivity to a GPS idea sorties Coast Guard actually gonna know where you are and because you've pre configured in MMSI ID which is sort of like a social insurance number for your boat or unique identifier for your boat and yourself as the owner they're going to know who you are where your boat is located and they're going to be able to come directly to your boat without having to answer all these annoying questions in the event of distress the other thing too is nowadays you can actually buy a VHF radio with some of them have built in GPS receiver so you don't even have to worry about interconnected any other GPS readers have also built in A. I. S. receiver. Exactly like this warning you that there's an A. I. S. target coming nearby and so you want to have a VHF radio that's got a good external antenna the quality of intent is really important the quality of the connection on the wire between the intent of the radio is important and also the connectors are really important so there's a lot of choice and I would say future freedoms are obviously probably the number one most important safety device on a boat you need to be able to communicate like I said with other both around you or short so if you've got any further questions please reach out to us and thanks for watching.
