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Our boat is open and I think the radio we got for it is for cabin types.

So I want to take it out when not in use.
Any suggestions on type of plugs for it?


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If you're looking for a power supply, I'd like to recommend this one from TekPower. It should work fine with your rig.
 
If you're looking for a power supply, I'd like to recommend this one from TekPower. It should work fine with your rig.
While I was looking at that I noticed that it had a noise offset feature. I have trouble with a couple of my 120V AM receivers and static, any suggestions?
 
There are noise cancelers out there like the MFJ 1026 but I don't have personal experience with them. The noise offset on the PS I think is just for the PS itself.
 
Thank you all for the help, glad I ask learned more than I hoped for. Y'all are the best. Soon hubby and I will study it in detail.
 
Our boat is open and I think the radio we got for it is for cabin types.

So I want to take it out when not in use.
Any suggestions on type of plugs for it?


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Plugs? Unplug the power and antenna. Remove thumb screws that attach radio to the mounting bracket.
 
Plugs? Unplug the power and antenna. Remove thumb screws that attach radio to the mounting bracket.


Yea that is probably what we will do. I say we but I am not good with wiring so hubby will do it. Thanks.
 
I was working on a police motorcycle once that had a Motorola radio on it. I sent one of the new kids to go to radio shack and get me some Squelch oil. They told him they were out so he went to the police garage and they said they didn't have any either and sent him to an electronics parts store that was run by two old guys. They informed him that there was no such thing and someone was messing with him. He came back pretty mad.
 
Sort of like a left handed screwdriver.

The poor young hardware clerk that waited on me, bet he still believes there are left handed screwdrivers! He had a very puzzled look on his face when I asked for one. He said he didn't believe they had any then a older voice form back of the store yelled, "We have a whole rack full of them!" Young kid took be over to the hand tools still with a puzzled looked on his face. I picked up a couple and sighted down their length, nope, nope, here's one! Poor kid. :D
 
Speaking of tool truck guys, this is a true story:
I was working at a dealership and a new young guy came in in a brand new Mac Tools truck offering to start selling us MAC tools. As he walked out to his truck with one of the techs I looked at a couple of other mechanics and asked them, "do you think he knows anything about tools or did his daddy just set him up in business?" They said Don't know. I said Imma find out. Walked out and got on his truck as the other guys followed me. I said, "Hey, I dropped a brass screw down in a manifold intake and I'm really needing a brass magnet to get it out so I don't have to take the whole intake off to get it. Do you have one?" He began looking through the catalog for a brass magnet. I looked at the guys and said " Guess not". He said "hang on, gimme a minute, I'm looking for it!
 
there is also canned compression, blinker fluid and dont forget to put summer air in your tires when the season changes. Oh yeah i almost forgot... need to change the battery cables around this summer so the AC works well instead of the heater.
 
I moved to Fort Lauderdale ,fl with my friend who was also divorced with 3 kids and no child support. Went to work tending bar. A German came in who was foreman at shipyard 'Port Everglades'.

He ask what a woman like me was doing working in a bar, I answered ' I needed a day job so he told me they needed help at shipyard. Ask how much it paid and he laughed out loud and said I wouldn't make it an hour on those ships. I jokenly told him I could work circles around his men.
Next morning I applied was hired and went to 'work' repairing brake shoes on the winch [ I think thats what it was,forgot] . I thought, ' they think I'm stupid ' no brakes shoes on a ship.

Anyway these Greek speaking [ no english ] muscle bound Atlas's sent me across gang plank down several flights of stairs for a "bastard file ". So I figured another trick no such thing as a bastard file, but like the brake shoes I was wrong again. I told the man at the tool shed as I scratched the million sand fleas they wanted a big file but they used a cuss word so I told him the it was for giant nut we were taking off the brake shoe. I lasted a couple hours and fainted going across gang plank dragging that file across the buggy shipyard ,back up all those flights and onto ship where I passed out on deck.
My tool story.
 
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My folks have a marina. Dad sent my brother off to get elbow grease from Grandpa. Grandpa said he didn't have any but sent him down on the docks to ask one of the boat owners. I think he eventually ran around to every boat that had an owner aboard that day.
 
My folks have a marina. Dad sent my brother off to get elbow grease from Grandpa. Grandpa said he didn't have any but sent him down on the docks to ask one of the boat owners. I think he eventually ran around to every boat that had an owner aboard that day.

Car, I always think of you and your family when I watch those greatest catch stories. And since you mentioned the coastal bars I found a few here in Florida. Don't want to lose power anywhere near one of those things in out little boat, plus it is flat bottom too.:ghostly:
 

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