Vhf hand held radios

[Nehalennia]

To add to Gary's list, I recommend you register a separate MMSI # from the main boat for the Handheld that is DSC capable. This way they'll have the information on your Dink instead of looking for your mother ship.
The SH850 is a nice little radio. I'm considering it myself, but I don't have a true dink yet so it's not a priority. I have a friend that has one and it's a nice little unit.

 

[Alex F]

I just picked up an ICOM IC-M34. While testing it I've noticed some strange operation. If I adjust SQL to have at least 1 bar I loose the broadcast. When I adjust it to OP (completelly open) level I hear heavy noise and monitor shows "busy", this is hapenning on all chanels. Is this normal for handhelds to have such a heavy noise? If I switch it to weather broadcast it's not bad, b/c I get constant announcments. But, when I switch to regular chanels I only hear the noise. I'm a distnace away from water, so I'll give it more testing when I'll have a chance to be near water or CG station. The strange part is why would I see "busy" indicator on and noise while there's nothing broadcasting.

 

[Havana Shamrock]

hey alex, i heard i com's are built to military specs and are excellent radios im torn between your radio and standard horizon 850s( it floats) i want to use it as a secondary radio and for the dink i will watch to see if you figure out the prob w/ the icom any recommendations? thanks

 

[Havana Shamrock]

Nehalennia, i was looking at the sh850 also for the dink at the boat show the guy from standard horizon said to watch the price on line in the few weeks it's price will drop to bout $150 theres a new radio coming out .

 

[Havana Shamrock]

four suns,, i have a raymarine 215 radio it receives but wont transmit it's original equip/2003 and want to replace it and the antenna i was considering ICOM or standard horizon, I like garmin but it's very expensive slowly switching all my electronics to garmin just added the 4208 chartplotter and use the RL70 for radar, very user friendly and building a nmea2000 network any recommendations?