Shopping for a Handheld VHF, any advise?

[Billy V]

I'm looking through the West Marine Catalogue and there are some nice floating units available.

So what do you have, and what do you recommend?

[coffeebean16]

west marine brand water proof ones. bought it. got a letter 8 months later that it might not be exactly waterproof.
:withstupid:
they offered me a waterproof bag for the old one at no costlol i said what would be the point. to their credit they traded me out no questions asked for a standard horizon submersible hx471s. i paid the difference.

good cutomer service for me. not such a great product.

dave

[Billy V]

I did notice that the "West Marine Brand" stated a different waterproof standard (jis-7 and jis-8), as opposed to the IPX-7 standard, and were not floaters.

I got it narrowed down to the Icom M34, or Standard Horizon HX750S.
Both of these float.

[madscientist]

I like Icom. My SH blew up pretty quickly.

[Mo Betta]

Icom M-34, I use it on my Yak and in my ditch bag on the boat.

[Billy V]

Yup, thats what I bought this afternoon the Icom M-34.
They have a $10 rebate on the radio going on now, and the nice lady gave me 10% off as well. :)

It comes wit a 3 year warranty and I added 2 more for cheap money.