lowrance Link 5 VHF radio

[BigE]

looking for some collective wisdom on VHF.

bought a new VHF radio (Link 5 from lowrance ) receives loud and clear from the bay i can hear M/bar and the Gold Coast but for the life of me i cannot transmit at all.

I'll bet it is something small but i'm buggered if i can figure it out, anyone had any experience with the Link 5 VHF

BigE

[scottar]

Make sure you have it set to international for starters and on high power. From that point you will need some help - it could be a crook antenna ( antenna condition is a lot more critical to transmit than receive), it could be a crook microphone or a crook set (I know it's new - it happens). Did you try a local VMR on 16.

[BigE]

set to international and on high power , keep prompting for GPS data position , I am hoping i dont need to hook it to my GPS cause my GPS is a Garmin and im not sure they will talk to each other.

BigE

[BigE]

got it sorted today, went to the options menu and turned everything off one by one.
then started turning each option on one at a time, problem seemed to be the GPS Data option, once it was off the radio transmitted fine.

BigE

[scottar]

Good you sorted it. Not real smart on Lowrance's (or who ever makes it for them) software guy's part to stop a radio transmitting just because of invalid or missing GPS data. Most of the other brands I've played with will alarm but never seen one that stopped transmitting voice.

[BigE]

scottar
was getting the alarm as well, didnt think this would affect transmission once the alarm was acknowledged, reception was clear as a bell but it would not transmitt.

bige