vhf radio

[pops]

can anyone recommend an installer for a vhf radio in my boat.
I have a problem with the radio not trransmitting correctly, dont know if its the radio, antenna, power supply or what.

the problem is that i connected the radio to my gps for the dsc feature..
with the gps turned on the radio will not transmit, but with the gps off it works fine.

[Dudeman042]

Now i don't know much about VHF's, but I know a little about CB's and if that happened with a CB, I would say that with both turned on, it is not getting enough power to transmit. I know VHF's transmit a more powerful signal than a CB, so I can only assume they would also need more power than a CB to transmit. If your VHF and GPS are wired together you may need to get a bigger power supply wire, or wire them seperately....

[pops]

how do you check the voltage going to the radio from the fuse panel?

[wevans]

A bad ground on either one would make it do that also.

[Sir reel]

You didn't indicate what brand of either your dealing with but my first thought would be to contact both manufacture's starting with the GPS.

[pops]

Problem Sloved:
my first problem was the outboard alternator was not working, replaced it,
then replaced the fuse panel, it was a mess.....
now everything works propertly.

[Sir reel]

Glad it worked out pops