Shopping for a Handheld VHF, any advise?
 

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?

what not to buy
 

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

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.

I like Icom. My SH blew up pretty quickly.

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

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.