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Looking to buy a mid-range priced hand held marine band radio.
I will only use it a couple times per year, so not looking to spend a ton of dough.
The Cobras look pretty nice and are fairly priced. Anyone have any experience with them?
Thanks - Midge |
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Location: Antioch, IL | I was looking into hand helds a few weeks ago and decided they just weren't the way to go. Even with the high end models I was told your range is pretty much limited to line of sight. Once you get behind an island or two you will have a real hard time even if the actual distance is well within the range the unit claims to be capable of. There was another post on here in the boats & motors section (i think) that the guys gave a lot of good info in. |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | BC,
I have a Cobra hand-held and have to say that I was impressed with how far it actually picked up signals. I love the weather channels too.
We used 2 Unidens and my Cobra (at base camp) during our first IMTT this season, I picked up broadcasts with little problems. We were on Okauckee Lake and I picked up broadcasts that were easily 3 miles away, through a concrete bridge and 2 islands.
There's no doubt that a fixed mount 25 watt radio is the best thing to get, but I was impressed with my handheld Cobra MR HH300 VP...we have them, and the 400 (with Nicad battery pack), for $119.99.
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