My Standard Horizon HX350S has not been holding a charge well leading to some interesting situations out on the water. :-) I decided to get another radio and deal with the charging situation later (it will eventually give me a second radio to lend out, which was on my mind anyway). I bought a Standard Horizon HX460S, which I am real familiar with, having reviewed it in my newsletter as well as borrowed one at times from the Downtown Boathouse and from friends. It is generally a good radio, certainly in its small size and strong send and receive power. And has the virtue of being powered by a lithium battery that charge at any time a la cell phones without need to discharge. (NIcads are a pain to discharge and charge in order to avoid the battery developing a memory that results in less power. I did everything in my power to be careful on discharging/charging the HX350 but probably this wasn't enough.) Good news. The company has upgraded the provided Lithium battery with the HX460S from the original 7.2 voltage/1100mAh to a 7.4/1300mAh battery. So you get more juice for longer periods between charges. If you buy one now, make certain that it has the upgraded battery. The packaging with the radio should have a few slips of loose paper in the back of the instruction manual noting that the enclosed battery is the FNB-80LI that replaces the CNB460. I bought mine at Consumer Marine Electronics for $244 plus $6 shipping. http://www.consumersmarine.com. Radios continue to drop in price. So they are coming to a decently affordable level. The HX350S goes for $199 for example. 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 - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Sep 17 2002 - 15:15:28 PDT
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