Hand Held VHF Advice
Submitted by EM296 on Fri, 2019-03-29 16:52
Hi there,
I'm not a yakker, but know that a lot of you guys use hand held VHF radios.
I want a hand held VHF for the tinny and was wondering what you would recomend as the best value for money Hand Held VHF?
Thanks in advance
Andy
dodgy
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Floating icom. Great little
Floating icom. Great little unit and battery lasts well.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
OOH YEH
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I use a cobra 500
on my Jetski and it is Bluetooth to my phone and it is more powerful.....
dmck
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Date Joined: 07/03/19
GME VHF HH
I have a GME GX800 and cannot fault it.
But if you can fit a full radio you should. 25 watts vs 5/6 and a more efficient antenna.
Starbug
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Have to agree.25w and and an
Have to agree.
25w and and an efficeient antenna of a fixed radio v 5w and a undersized hand held antenna is no contest.
Taffy
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Hand Held VHF
Have a look around ebay gumtree see if you can pick up a Motorola GP 339 or GP 338 in VHF,
Built to a Military Standard not a cheap Chinese Budget and Totaly Legal, Happy to programme it free of charge if ya pick one up
duges66
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I have one of these
I have one of these https://www.bluesat.com/sailor-sp3520-portable-vhf-gmdss-with-charger.html & the charger you can have for $150.
There's 3 kinds of people in this world, those who can count and those that can't.
EM296
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Date Joined: 26/04/13
Thanks for all the replies
I think that I'm probably going to follow dmck's advice and fit a full radio.
I have the room and fishing mostly in Cervantes, there aren't always a lot of other boats around, so more range would be better.
Cheers
Andy
dmck
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Date Joined: 07/03/19
VHF radio..
If you can... go DSC its another level of safety in your boat.