Installing the Icom M802
When it comes to installing an Icom M802 SSB system, there are a few rules of thumb that should be followed. Heres a look...
Making a Mayday Call on Marine SSB Radio
For more than a decade, the Digital Selective Calling (DSC) distress call has been the digital-age equivalent of the familiar Mayday call and the...
PS Tests Farallons Pactor-4 Modem, SailMail
As email access is a big draw for many potential (and current owners) of single-sideband systems, we decided this was a good opportunity to...
Professional Versus DIY SSB System Installs
Terry Sparks, author of the book A New Ham I Am, Made Simple For Cruisers, has seen plenty of HF radio installations-both SSB and...
Ships Log Goes Digital
Almost every sailor keeps some sort of logbook-from totally minimalist to absolutely exhaustive-and now, they have the option of keeping a digital logbook. We...
Digging into the SSB Radio Kerfuffle
Bear with us here. Before you get too far into this months report on single-sideband radios beginning, youll find it is incomplete. There are...
A Second Look at Marine SSB
To many sailors, single-sideband radio falls into the black arts category, those mysterious nautical skills (like anchoring or bleeding air from your diesel engine)...
Deciding Between Marine SSB or Ham, or Both
Both the marine radio and ham radio services use the same type of modulation, called single sideband. So when a fellow sailor says they...
Im with the Band: Fidelity and Frequencies
Audio is transmitted via radio waves, with audio being impressed on a radio signal using a method called modulation. The two types of modulation...
The Birth of the Cable Tamer
These high-tech times present a whole new challenge for us cruising folks. How does one cope with the multitude of cords, chargers, headphones, and...
$650,000 Yacht Tour : Hanse 460 – This Luxury Cruising Sailboat...
In the $500,000+ cruising sailboat market, the competition for world traveling sailboats is full of exceptional sailing yachts like the Catalina 445, the Amel...
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MacGregor 26 has been a staple in the trailerable sailboat market for decades, and company literature claimed more than 7,000 of the original model...