Hi,
Our Thrane & Thrane Sailor
VHF kicked the bucket. I am replacing it with an
Icom 506.
Once an MMSI is programmed in, many
DSC VHF's will beep incessantly if there is no
GPS signal. Our Thrane & Thrane did this after our main
GPS died, and the net result is that we left it off and used our handheld VHFs. I searched high and low, and there was no option to delete the MMSI or disable these alarms. I've met many other cruisers who were forced into the same situation by a broken GPS or
NMEA gremlins.
Does the 506
alarm like this? I've wired it to its own dedicated GPS
puck, but feel it is safer to give up
DSC and be able to leave it on all the time, even if it's GPS dies.