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7/20/2012

Midland NTVP1 Nautico 88-Channel Water-Resistant VHF Marine Two-Way Radio Review

Midland NTVP1 Nautico 88-Channel Water-Resistant VHF Marine Two-Way Radio
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This radio does what you need - not what you don't. The reception is good and sounds good. The calls I have placed were received "Loud and Clear". It is compact and comes with any accessory (rechargeable battery and two chargers, waterproof bag, bracket, clip) that you could want. It also runs on AA cells if your rechargeable runs down.
It does not have Digital Selective Calling which is not something I care about. It is not waterproof outside of its bag - also not a concern to me the way I use it.
I am a 25 year boatowner and I think the radio is great.

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Stay in touch with your friends and family and be covered in emergencies with Midland's Nautico 1 Marine Radio Kit. The Nautico 1 boasts five watts of power for a range of up to 12 miles, with access to all US and international marine channels, and NOAA weather alert radio. It features a water-resistant body, a brilliant LCD, and convenient features like eVox, auto squelch, an emergency channel 16 button, and more. It's a solid marine VHF radio, for a solid price.
Stay in touch with your friends and family and be covered in emergencies with Midland's Nautico 1 Marine Radio Kit.

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4/09/2012

Uniden UM415BK Full Featured VHF Marine Radio Review

Uniden UM415BK Full Featured VHF Marine Radio
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The radio is very compact and yet it has every feature that I could possibly use. So far I have not used it a whole lot since the fishing season has not been very good and I haven't had the boat out very often. The few times that I have used it I would say that it transmits and receives very well.


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12/15/2011

Icom M36 01 Floating Handheld 6W Marine Radio with Clear Voice Audio Review

Icom M36 01 Floating Handheld 6W Marine Radio with Clear Voice Audio
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The radio works as promised. Bought it to use while my mast is down traveling though the Erie Canal. I was a bit concerned about the 9hr battery life published on their website but did not see any others I was interested in that offered anything better. Once I started using it I really have no complaints. Battery life is way better then expected in fact I had it on for 38hrs straight as we crossed lake Erie monitoring channel 16 and did not even loose a bar of power in the meter. While in the canal it worked well and I never lost a bar of power despite leaving it on for 48hrs monitoring channel 13 in low power mode.
One can really crank the volume up and transmissions I'm told come in very clear. I would imagine you would not have any trouble hearing this while working in very loud environments?
I have small kids and was worried about it going overboard so I went with the floating version. I wish it came in another color as I'm guessing black will blend into the water pretty well when it does go overboard. I tossed it in my hot tub to test the floating feature and it did and continued to work fine all while turned on!
Downside to this unit is the expensive tray one needs to buy if you want to use AA batts & the fact that the power goes from 6w to 1w when you go with this option. This unit was expensive & for the price it would be nice for them to have included the optional AA battery tray. The only other possible downside is the time it takes to charge (Unit was not fully recharged during a quick 6hr overnight (after the 38hr usage period mentioned above) but since I never lost a bar on the power meter I'm not holding this against it as it worked fine for 8hrs the next day (still reading full power).

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