Installing an SSB Radio
A single-sideband radio is much more powerful than your onboard VHF and requires thoughtful installation.
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A single-sideband radio is much more powerful than your onboard VHF and requires thoughtful installation.
While a ham-radio license isn’t necessary, you might want to consider getting one before going offshore.
If you want to be an upstanding and non-annoying member of the SSB-radio community, these are the things you need to know.
Cap’n Fatty Goodlander relates three instances where the network of SSB radio operators came to the rescue of sailors in distress.
Cap’n Fatty Goodlander details the preventive measures he has taken to protect his SSB radio from its unremitting enemy– water. Supplement to “Pactor Babe’s Got Her Ears On,” from our March 2007 issue
A single-sideband radio is much more powerful than your onboard VHF and requires thoughtful installation.
While a ham-radio license isn’t necessary, you might want to consider getting one before going offshore.
If you want to be an upstanding and non-annoying member of the SSB-radio community, these are the things you need to know.
Cap’n Fatty Goodlander relates three instances where the network of SSB radio operators came to the rescue of sailors in distress.
Cap’n Fatty Goodlander details the preventive measures he has taken to protect his SSB radio from its unremitting enemy– water. Supplement to “Pactor Babe’s Got Her Ears On,” from our March 2007 issue
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