The Problem with Cell Phones if We Get into Trouble
Posted on February 12, 2010
Filed under About Kayaks, How to Kayak, Kayaking Guides and tagged EPIRBS, fiberglass sea kayak, how to use a vhf radio, kayak repair, kayaking, kayaks, mayday, personal locater beacons, Sea Kayaking
Above: heavy as a brick, almost as heavy, twice as rugged. A ten-year-old Standard HX 150s vhf marine radio. It won't float, isn't waterproof, and uses nicad batteriess rather than li-ions for rechargeables. But it works, has a backuptray for alkaline batteries, and has worked for ten years. It also feature sa large easy-to-read screen, push-button operations, and allows channel scanning and
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