Marine VHF advice

03-08-2013, 11:59 AM

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Re: Marine VHF advice

The USCG does NOT monitor that distress signal. Do not think of it as a poor mans EPIRB. It's NOT.

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Originally Posted by spearo

Def get a dashboard one with the "distress" button. Forget what it's actually called but you register the unit with the CG and if the boat is going down you hit the button and it automatically transmits SOS with GPS coordinates. Well worth the extra couple of bucks.

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