At 04:45 PM 3/22/99 -0800, Tom... wrote: >I even found a book on making a mod to the Yaesu to allow it to >work on Marine freqs... Never found someone to help me make the change... >and really doubt that I will... Probably not a good idea anyway. The Yaesu is not a "type accepted" radio for use on the marine VHF frequencies. Although it is pretty unlikely, you could stir up a bit of trouble for yourself if someone took exception to your using it. >If with others I have a couple of >inexpensive CB portable rigs I can loan out... <shrug> Here is something for everyone on the list. If you paddle (or fish/hike/climb/drive/fourwheel/whatever) in a group (or have kids), you might want to check out the Family Radio Service (FRS) band. These tiny HTs are about the size of a cell-phone, operate on 14 discrete channels in the 460MHz UHF band, and output a couple hundred milliwatts. Some even include CTCSS (PL) encoding. I recently got two on sale at RadioShack for $40 each for the young'ens to play with (Riiight!! ;-)) The Ms., (also a ham; KC0BVA) and I were so impressed that we got a couple more for ourselves. No license required, range of AT LEAST a couple miles (pretty much line of sight, like the marine VHF units), run for a long time on AA batteries, smaller, lighter, much, much cheaper than our amateur HTs. I heartily recommend them. > Thanks for your reply! No problemo, Tom! Sounds like you're on the path to recovery from a serious mishap of some sort. Get better real quick! ByeBye! S. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Mar 23 1999 - 08:48:40 PST
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