Sorry folks, Does anyone have personal (or anecdotal) experience with the Standard HX350S VHF radio? Does it last? Is it honestly submersible, even away from marketing wonderland? Thanks for your opinions, even if they aren't politically correct or even worse . . . disagree with mine. Oh, and one last thing, . . . could someone please repost the address for Emily Post's VHF Users Guidelines. Thanks, I don't need to start stepping on toes that have the gross tonnage advantage. just another speed bump...... Jed *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
>> Is it honestly submersible I've had a Standard HX350S vhf radio for several month. It has survived several shallow dunkings without harm. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
LedJube_at_aol.com wrote: > > Sorry folks, > > Does anyone have personal (or anecdotal) experience with the Standard > HX350S VHF radio? Does it last? Is it honestly submersible, even away from > marketing wonderland? It holds quite a long charge. I use mine without a covering bag (aside from a holster type bag to hold it to one PFD that doesn't have a large enough pocket). I have been in the water in it. Also out on a paddle in which an inch and a half of rain fell on my over the course of a few hours. Lastly, it gets washed of salt water by placing it in a bucket of fresh water for a few minutes and gently scrubbing it with my fingers. It will not, however, be waterproof with its alkaline battery pack, just the Nicad pack. Someone contacted me back channel regarding the radio having seen a posting of mine regarding the Apelco 520 (which I originally had but switched to the Standard HX350S). The person bought a Standard HX350S and took it out with the alkaline pack. Guess what it leaked. I had totally failed to tell him about the alkaline pack situation with all of the radios just assuming that this was common knowledge as it had been so extensively discussed on PaddleWise. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ***************************************************************************
Just a thought on washing a VHF radio to get the salt off. I would suggest NOT running it under a faucet but rather soaking it in the basin or a bucket. I just don't know what the force of running water is out of a faucet. Why risk excessive water pressure concentrated in a narrow stream forcing itself into the innards? Also be careful about aggressive swishing around of the radio in the water. Be gentle and avoid too much agitated movement of the radio under water while washing. This may be what did in your radio, Jack. You talked about running water on it in public restrooms after salt water exposure. Could be the water force was such that some water forced itself past the gaskets. I have one of those Canon Elph Sports camera that is waterproof. The instructions say wash by soaking BUT NOT to swish the camera around a lot, just gentle motions. I know the force of a wave can be great and being underwater in a roll puts the radio under quite a lot of water pressure. But why take a risk when washing the thing of having too concentrated a jet of water from a faucet or creating washing machine level agitation in swishing it around too much? I suppose a trickle from a faucet would be okay. But just a trickle. ralph diaz ralph diaz wrote: -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ***************************************************************************
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