I hear what you are saying, Fred. And I have to agree.
Imzadi has a fixed mount VHF at the helm and also a separate fixed mount at the nav station. Each is connected to a GPS (the one at the helm is the Garmin chartplotter), and each has a dedicated antenna. While I like the redundancy, the real reasons I have 2 fixed mount VHFs are: 1) a handheld only has a range of a couple of miles on a good day, and 2) around 50 years of boating experience has led me to the conviction that a handheld radio is a holder for dead batteries. For not much more than the cost of the $139 RAM mike you could install a fairly good SH VHF radio and a dedicated antenna. And neither would ever fall overboard. Rick Brass Washington, NC From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frederick G Street via CnC-List Sent: Friday, January 08, 2016 12:38 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Frederick G Street <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Stus-List VHF / AIS First, has anyone ever lost overboard something that wasn’t firmly attached to the boat? And secondly, has anyone gone to use a piece of rechargeable battery-powered electronics, only to find that the battery was dead? Neither of these scenarios apply to a hard-wired remote mic like the S-H or the Icom.
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