Today a fair number of marine electronics still use the old National Marine Electronics Association 0183 networking protocol, which includes some AIS and autopilots. But the most notable are ...

Accessing your VHF radio from anywhere on the boat offers flexibility and improves boating safety. Thanks to Icom, there are wired and wireless remote station options that are easy to implement.

Technology and methods during my 30-plus years of emergency services have changed so much that it is a challenge to keep abreast. I can remember simplex VHF-low radio systems, three-foot mobile ...

Over on the Spectrum web site, [Dale] — a relatively new ham radio operator — talks about his system for sending text messaging over VHF radios called HamMessenger. Of course, hams send messages all ...