any sugestions

[chrishowden]

anyone know of a good cheap handheld vhf radio and handheld gps

cheers

[AndrewH]

Originally Posted by chrishowden

anyone know of a good cheap handheld vhf radio and handheld gps

cheers

Chris

I've found the standard horizon handheld to be very good and mailspeed are offering them for less than 90 quick inc p&p

http://www.mailspeedmarine.com/radio...e_Handheld_VHF

Don't have an up-to-date comments on handheld GPS as I've had a fixed set for ages. However when we had a Garmin GPSmap72 I found it to be a good little unit

[9D280]

and in complete opposite, my handheld is a museum piece, as Iv'e had a fixed VHF for ages.....


Got a Garmin12 (predecessor of the 72!). It's not far off it's 18th birthday, and still going strong.

The 12/72 are waterproof and also talk NMEA, which may or may not be useful if you have DSC floating around. THey also have the advantage that with a charged set of batteris they will switch seamlessly from external to internal power without forgetting anything or rebooting themselves.

[BogMonster]

+1 for GPS72 I had one in a marine mount on the Destroyer. Shut off the isolator and it would beep a 30 second warning to automatically power-down if you didn't press a key, so you had to be a muppet to leave it on by accident.

Also +1 for the Standard Horizon though mine is the older HX270E