Ok everyone,
Visual Studios HRI was not sending the REMOTE command to Icom Marine Radios.
I made a fix to Visual Studios HRI - this small change will only affect Icom Marine Radio users.
When starting VS HRI, the date for this version will be 23NOV2016v1
So re-download VS-HRI from the FILES section, and let me know if works well or does not work well.
Regards,
Howard