Re: [Paddlewise] Hams and Kayaks (and FRS radio)

Steve,

>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.

	I agree, and understand but-in an emergency...  <shrug> don't have near
the fine motor control needed to de-solder the chip anyway nor the $$ to
have someone do it for me... then there's the tuning problem I may find
myself with using a rubber duck...<G>  But thanks for reminding me..!

>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. 

	And at $40-I think you have a very good idea!  I was used to a $100 or so
price tag, and that was prohibitive to me...  Very good idea for groups I
would think!

>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.

>No problemo, Tom! Sounds like you're on the path to recovery from a serious
>mishap of some sort. Get better real quick!

	My homepage is listed below and gives a run down of what happened if you
are curious...

		Take good care Steve,

			Tom Weese

	
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