![]() ![]() THREE-CHANNEL SCAN: Mersey – no, the “3 Channel Scan” (not to be confused with the Dual Scan or the All Channel Scan), IS available on the EU version of the Pony/Lowrance. ![]() The 25 year old Aquamarine 5600 radio had good sound quality. LOUDSPEAKER: Speaker quality is subjective of course, but I’ve worked in broadcasting for most of my life so I reckon I know what’s reasonable sound and what isn’t. As we now know that pinhole is the actual mic. MICROPHONE: Yes, I had naively thought you just talked into the grill of the Lowrance (Pony) microphone and didn’t realise my hand was inadvertently covering a tiny pin-hole marked with the enigmatic letter “M”. Pony also make their own budget brand called “M-TECH”Īnyway, to some specific points raised on this thread:. That’s because Pony not only make radios for Lowrance but also for Lay Jefferson, Kelvin Hughes, SI-TEX, KODEN, Shore Line, Nasa Marine, and several other brands whose identities are kept top-secret. It’s actually not made by Lowrance at all but by a company you’ve probably never heard of - the “Japan based” Pony Electric Company probably somewhere in China (where its manual is printed) and probably shipped out of Hong Kong.īefore you all start sniggering – let me wipe that smile off your face by telling you that Pony probably made your radio too. You might think that an American product like the Lowrance LVR-250 would be made where the company is based - in Oklahoma, USA, in Lowrance’s home city of Tulsa – but in fact it’s manufactured rather more than "24 hours from Tulsa ". (And yes, you’ve guessed it, The two of them are STILL not on speaking terms) I hadn’t intended to return to this topic – but I’ve just wasted an entire day of the depreciating balance of days left of my life trying to get my Lowrance LVR-250 to talk to my Garmin GPS. Why your DSC radio is probably as bad as mine. Yes, set up DSC and then people can just press the red button in an emergency. >We all need something that can be used in an emergency by people unfamiliar with the particular marque of radio and who don't have time to "Read the F*****g Manual" However I would like to ask if you do actually have a modern Radio Operators License for a DSC radio? You would have learnt all about DSC and the benefits on the course. I and many people do, Other people have made good points regarding the benefits of DSC, so I won't add to that. >As for DSC - well who needs it? Who bothers with it?. I have the LVR-880 and on the microphone it clearly has a large "M" by the microphone hole, that's clear enough for me. >The microphone is actually behind a tiny hole in the microphone case which is easy to miss ![]() It says in the manual that function is only on the US model, see page 29 of your manual, your EU model has dual watch with channel 16. >I defy anyone to set up the "3-Channel Watch" >The sound quality from the speaker is tinny and poor compared with the Aquamarine.Īll good on my LVR-880, and even with the built in FM radio. ![]()
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