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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I use a Raymarine, and love it. Plenty of range, and clear reception. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | Esoxmn, I haven't used a hand held, but from what I have been told, you would be better off with just picking up a regular radio. If I recall correctly, they suck some juice on the batteries, and the power on them is not quite the same. Maybe the Extremem One can pipe in on this. I think he told me to avoid the handhelds, but I can't quite remember.
That's about all the help I can be for ya. Sorry
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Location: Black Creek, WI | I have a hand held VHF Radio (Uniden HH985 Marine) and actually end up using it more in my house for local weather alerts than in my boat. My experience with the range has been poor. If you are on large open water it is OK... but take it to LOTW with lots of islands to impede your signal and communication between boats (radios) can be limited.
If you plan to communicate often with your radio, I'd probably have to recommend going with a full radio and whip antenna. Good Luck.
Edited by jlong 2/14/2004 12:55 PM
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Location: Suspended | I have the Hummingbird (VH5 I believe is the #) and it is alright. It definetly doesn't have the range of a wired unit, but works fine for line of sight. The down side is the rechargeable battery, I even bought a second one to have as a back-up but have found they don't hold a charge as well as I would like. Maybe one that runs on regular disposable batteries would be better because you can always get and carry spares, but I'm sure they'd eat them up pretty quick if you talk on it a lot. Guys on my lake use channel 68 and can be pretty chatty. |
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