Amateur licence holders don't need to use type-approved equipment, marine users do. Thanks folks, great information. The yacht is fitted with the ground plate and power supply but I removed the back stay insulators when the rigging was removed. One day I hope to fit another radio. Perhaps a modified Ham radio set would be better. I guess the dial for tuning replaces the channel buttons on a ham set. Thanks, BlowingOldBoots. You should check that you don't get a non-programmable set as they lock you out of lots of useful stuff.
Joined 29 Nov Messages 37, Location Southampton. Maybe - but you will have to go the full radio-geekery route to get a license to use it legally. I think the exam you'd have to pass still includes morse-code work, though not at the sort of high level it used to.
There is also a certain amount of electronics and RF knowledge. There are three levels of ham license, and because to them operating from a mobile set on a boat sounds pretty advanced, they restrict such operation to their highest level of ticket.
This seems backwards to sailing types who just want to talk to each other on ham frequencies, because we may not want to do anything terribly complex and advanced from a radio point of view, and we don't consider it a big deal that our station happens to float. But it's the radio geeks that set the rules for their hobby, and they say you can't use a basic or intermediate ham ticket afloat. Joined 25 Nov Messages Location Sussex. Also the Ham radios will not operate easily on Duplex marine channels.
But then I have a ham licence. Starting from scratch it may be simpler to go for the marine licence, but the gear tends to be more expensive. Frankly you need none of it in the Med, but further afield it's worth having.
If he is intending to use it for marine communications, there is no need to go through the full amateur radio licence path - the ham licence does not confer any permission to transmit on the marine bands. It is quite probable that the marine licence does not permit the use of a ham radio rig on the marine bands either, but I'm not sure that you are likely to be caught.
Reverend Ludd New member. Skylark Well-known member. Common uses of an antenna coupler would be using the backstay of a sailboat as an antenna or a manufactured SSB antenna, such as the Shakespear SSB Fiberglass vertical antenna.
This is the cheapest and easiest way to go. The other option would be their General radio Operators License, but that is geared more for the commercial operator and prior electronics background. Best of luck. Used ham radio on my 3-year Voyage to the South Pacific on my foot sailboat. Knowing Morse code is extremely useful if you even knew enough to know why. We used a sextant hand bearing Compass — both were purchased at flea markets — and paper charts for our navigation across the Pacific Ocean.
We had one ham radio transceiver and an all band radio, no VHF radio, no depth sounder. Marine SSB radios are fine. Do you want to spend four or more thousand dollars to set your boat up with a marine SSB radio? Have at it. Mariners who understood how to use ham SSB radios properly have become a community and very useful Network for those crossing oceans.
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Solar Panel Self-destruction? Green Boating From a Practical Perspective. Generally, SSB signals tend to propagate greater distances and exhibit more graceful degradation over distance than FM signals.
Single sideband is the predominant phone mode used for over-the-horizon skip propagation via the ionosphere. Read on to take a closer look at the basics of SSB phone mode and to better understand its complexities and operating nuances relative to FM channelized ops. This video lesson will help you to visualize some of the practical considerations of SSB operations. What is SSB? Single sideband is a special form of amplitude modulation AM.
First, some bandwidth basics: A radio signal is comprised of a range of transmitted frequencies. When an operator tunes up a specific frequency on a transceiver, that displayed frequency value is the carrier frequency.
The carrier may be thought of as a reference position for a small, contiguous band of frequencies that will all be transmitted simultaneously when the push-to-talk button is depressed and some voice audio is provided to the microphone.
So, a transmitter does not emit only that singular tuned carrier frequency, but rather it emits an entire little band of frequencies near the carrier value that is used to encode the information of all the various audio frequencies of a voice.
Bandwidth comparison of common modes including SSB. Consider this graphical comparison of the bandwidth consumed by the signals of common operating modes, including SSB. Notice that FM consumes the widest band of frequencies and is variable from roughly 5 kHz to 15 kHz.
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