Can't make myself to get rid of it - still works. Other users warned me about the problems with concentric volume/squelch controls - they tend to stick together in salt water. On the recent Baja trip with many hours daily on sea and with little fresh water to spare I had a chance to see this perfectly. Volume control knob is fully open in the ultimate clockwise position. At the same time, the squelch (correct me if I'm wrong - a sort of noise filter) appears to be fully activated too (or set to maximum filtering) in the same ultimate clockwise position. So; when I turn the radio off, and both knobs are in the same anti-clockwise position (they rotate together, unless you pay attention every time), they get glued together by salt after several hours of inactivity. Then I turn it on, the volume all the way up (the squelch knob, glued to the volume knob, rotates to the same ultimate clockwise position) - and the radio is silent, because the signal (for example) is weak, and fully activated squelch simply cuts it off. Looks damn dangerous to me. Probably other people have experienced this too. What is the remedy - rinsing with fresh water every day? *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
alex wrote: > Can't make myself to get rid of it - still works. Other users warned me > about the problems with concentric volume/squelch controls - they tend > to stick together in salt water. [snip] Looks damn dangerous to me. > Probably other people have experienced this too. What is the remedy - > rinsing with fresh water every day? Alex, rinsing will help. So, also, will a very thin film of silicone grease applied to mating surfaces when dry. How about a trip report on Baja? -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Dave Kruger wrote: > Alex, rinsing will help. So, also, will a very thin film of silicone > grease applied to mating surfaces when dry. As will a simple drybag. I suspect the silicone grease will help a lot, but now you'll have to check for sand and grit getting into the grease. Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
> As will a simple drybag. I suspect the silicone grease will help a lot, but now > you'll have to check for sand and grit getting into the grease. Drybag will dampen the volume a lot. When I'm using my cellphone through the Aquapack bag, I can only hear it on the maximum volume against all the background noise of water, wind, power boats etc. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
> How about a trip report on Baja? It wasn't really paddling, with Balogh sail and outriggers. This isn't a trimaran sailing mail-list, is it? :-) And it wasn't really sailing, either. I went there in early October, and it was still summer. 2 days of decent sailing in the first 10 days of the trip. OTH, paddling that trimaran is ridiculously slow. MK1 is a slow boat even without any outrigger. Yeah, yeah, it's faster than Klepper AE1, - or so they say. In the last few days it started blowing, mostly from the North, and confused my plans - it was too close to unsightly Santa Rosalia with no campgrounds (I started from Bahia de Los Angeles), and barely enough days to make it to Mulege. Guys living on their boats in Sta Rosa told me that Mulege was devastated by the huricane this year (again), so may be I've made the right choice, fooling around San Marcos island remaining days, and wrapping it up at San Lucas, 15 miles south of Sta Rosa. Big news for Baja Cal Norte paddlers - there is a fresh water now in El Barril (some deep well). I haven't seen it - refilled in San Francisquito. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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