Re: [Paddlewise] Bottom Line of VHF and Cell Phones

The Icom IC - M9 VHF has an optional battery pack that operates the radio
off of 6 AA alkaline batteries. It's quite compact, water repellent, but not
water proof.
Cheers,
Don Watson

-----Original Message-----
From: Johnlebl_at_aol.com <Johnlebl_at_aol.com>
To: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net <paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net>
Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 11:57 PM
Subject: [Paddlewise] Bottom Line of VHF and Cell Phones


>I think putting all the posts together that the bottom line on this is todo
>your homework for the area you are in.
>
>Different areas use different protocals.
>
>different areas use different location reference points.
>
>For example I have lived here all my life adn listened to boats for 50
years
>on teh radios they used at whatever decade it was.
>
>The intracoastal waterway has mile markers from Florida to Texas, but here
is
>I tell someone on VHF ch13 that I am approaching the schoolhouse or north
>forty they know exactly where I am.  If I have done my homework, then I
know
>also.
>
>YOu cannot wait until you have a need to see if it works.  With EPIRBS you
>simply have to.  That is why they have a 90% false alarm rate.  Too many
>people "trying it to see if it works".  That increased response time.
>
>I, like others would expect it to work rather slowly, but I would take one
>into remote areas.  In fact I have been contemplating exactly that in
Summer
>2000 on a canoe trip into remote Canada.  I figured exactly what was posted
>becasue I had studyied it a lot.  That made me feel good.
>
>The bottom line is to be as familiar with what you are doing adn where you
are
>doing it as you can.  Right here is where to start.  Each day brings many
>posts requesting information.  If we freely give factual information
including
>the "I don't know, so I'll just read adn learn"  that is a good beginning.
>
>Sometimes you have to realize that "authorities" have an "official
position"
>that they tell you when you contact them which may or may not be "filtered"
>information.
>
>Dave Kruger seems to have a grasp on the drawbacks of ni-cad batteries.  If
>you don't mind Dave, could you share which hand held VHF models you find
work
>well with alkaline.  I have only ceen one advertized and know nothing about
>it..
>
>John LeBlanc
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