PJ Rattenbury wrote: > > Hi Ralph, > I should have tried out the Raytheons when I was at the Downtown Boathouse > with Eric Stiller some years back! [ My first encounter with a Klepper!]. > Thanks for your advice; you have a depth of knowledge on these things > which makes P/W so worthwhile. It sounds like 'ease of use' and price > would be the factors in choosing between Standard and Raytheon. The Apelco 520 and Raytheon 102 are new, i.e. the former only introduced about 2 years ago or so. So you would not have seen one around here back when you were here. Getting down to true waterproofness is a fairly new phenomenon. Until that happened I was reluctant to buy a radio that I had to keep awkwardly covered. Ease of use was the selling point for me eventually in choosing the Standard. But the Raytheon is quite a bit smaller than the Standard and, while its display is smaller, the Raytheon has done something to make it somewhat easier to see in broad daylight, a kinda luminescense toch to the background behind the numerals. You would not go wrong with either from what I can tell. > The one-watt difference, 5w versus 6w is pretty meaningless in VHF terms > of course, with antenna efficiency much more critical than output power. You would think so but I tend to believe that the company has gone through a lot of bother and expense to tweak out that extra watt for a reason. It must make a difference under certain situation. It is afterall x percentage greater wattage output. > In my previous posting I sloppily misquoted the 'waterproof' standard BTW, > apologies to P/Wisers. It is JIS-7. I think the JIS is for Japanese Industrial Standard if I recall correctly. Or maybe it is the Jonas Industrial Standard as in the Biblical guy who was caught in the belly of a whale, a good test of submersiblity of a radio. :-) cheers, ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jul 26 2000 - 19:47:12 PDT
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