Thanks to all who responded to my VHF radio questions. I decided to go with the Icom m72. It is small, light weight, has the best battery with longest battery life, seemed to be the most water proof and as someone mentioned to me on Paddlewise if I need a back up battery buy an additional lithium ion battery to take with me. Icom said that a spare lithium battery that is fully charged after 3-4 weeks will still retain 95% of it's power. Thanks again Richard. P.S. It pays to shop around the price of these varied from $177.00 tp $320.00 *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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