How many of you cary marine radios?

[ful-rac]

I have the Standard Horizon HX750 which works great.

Had water get inside of it somehow and standard horizon replaced the whole unit free of charge. I have since gone back there with other radios and they have taken care of them all free of charge, multiple times. Excellent customer service!

[jorluivil]

A better question is how many of you DO NOT carry a VHF radio and if you dont why not?

[mtnbykr2]

Originally Posted by jorluivil

A better question is how many of you DO NOT carry a VHF radio and if you dont why not?

And why isn't it leashed?

Icom both of our radios have been in for service, never have been charged for repair

[Hunters Pa]

Originally Posted by mtnbykr2

And why isn't it leashed?

Leashed to my PFD

[MrM]

Originally Posted by jorluivil

A better question is how many of you DO NOT carry a VHF radio and if you dont why not?

+1

Safety should not be compromised on the water. Professional opinions aside (I'm a Safety Manager), it's irresponsible to go on the water without a radio.

I go without one. Mainly because I always have Cell phone service, and now a days you can't peddle out and not be within ear shout of someone else. I've been on the water over 100 times this year, and haven't had a situation where I needed a radio over my cell phone. It also might have to do with the fact I'm in the Coast Guard and can make a phone call that will get a faster response that a radio call.

[bus kid]

Originally Posted by Drake

I go without one. Mainly because I always have Cell phone service, and now a days you can't peddle out and not be within ear shout of someone else. I've been on the water over 100 times this year, and haven't had a situation where I needed a radio over my cell phone. It also might have to do with the fact I'm in the Coast Guard and can make a phone call that will get a faster response that a radio call.

Is your phone waterproof, does it float? I fish alone all the time but I'm Jar Head and we are invincible. I always have a Radio, thats where the best dope is! and lastly You Navy rejects are alright in my book.

Originally Posted by bus kid

Is your phone waterproof, does it float? I fish alone all the time but I'm Jar Head and we are invincible. I always have a Radio, thats where the best dope is! and lastly You Navy rejects are alright in my book.

Trust me, I understand the importance of a radio, especially having done many many many SAR cases. If I ever bug in LJ at night in fog with swells I'll bring it but on a normal day on the water I'm a minimalist and like to bring as little with me as I can.

We better be good in your book, because of this man.

DOUGLAS A. MUNRO
MEDAL OF HONOR
Douglas A. Munro, Signalman First Class, U.S. Coast Guard, died heroically on Guadalcanal, September 27, 1942. He volunteered and successfully led five Higgins boats from the seaplane tender BALLARD to evacuate a detachment of Marines from a point where enemy opposition developed beyond anticipated dimensions. Munro's last words were 'Did they get off?'
The Medal of Honor is the country's highest award

[bus kid]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...nor_recipients

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...nor_recipients

As of October 30, 2011, there are a total of 400 Medal of Honor awards to 296 U.S. Marine recipients. 1 USCG, ironically your one served with Marines. hes the luckiest Coastie of them all!

[Lindsay]

Originally Posted by bus kid

Is your phone waterproof, does it float? I fish alone all the time but I'm Jar Head and we are invincible. I always have a Radio, thats where the best dope is! and lastly You Navy rejects are alright in my book.

+1, If I have not a radio, I will feel lonely.

[lterrero]

Originally Posted by Drake

I go without one. Mainly because I always have Cell phone service, and now a days you can't peddle out and not be within ear shout of someone else. I've been on the water over 100 times this year, and haven't had a situation where I needed a radio over my cell phone. It also might have to do with the fact I'm in the Coast Guard and can make a phone call that will get a faster response that a radio call.

for me is real hard to dial a 7 digit # to talk with somebody less than a mile & wait to ring at the other end...

[dorado50]

Originally Posted by jorluivil

A better question is how many of you DO NOT carry a VHF radio and if you dont why not?

cause mine don't work under h2o....seriously I don't ever carry one aboard the yak. Why not?, simple truth is its just another object to get in the way of landing a nice fish.

[richard67b]

X-NAVY CARRY ONE ALL THE TIME

[lowprofile]

well im indestructible, invincible, immortal, however you look at it and i carry one. its a cobra, water proof, floats and bright orange. I even remember to charge it sometimes. it's tons of fun to sit in the kayak at around 8am and listen to all the chatter on 72 about the "bite yesterday" then get on and say something like " you should have been here at 3am, wide open seabass and got a yellow over 40 at first light..." then listen to all hell break loose.

[bus kid]

Originally Posted by lowprofile

it's tons of fun to sit in the kayak at around 8am and listen to all the chatter on 72 about the "bite yesterday" then get on and say something like " you should have been here at 3am, wide open seabass and got a yellow over 40 at first light..." then listen to all hell break loose.

toss out a few GPS# s about a a click off your location and sit back and enjoy!

[lowprofile]

Originally Posted by bus kid

toss out a few GPS# s about a a click off your location and sit back and enjoy!

i actually seen a guy do that. he was in a center console and i was about 20 yards away fishing the kelp and we were talking and he says, "watch this".. gets on there, gives them some numbers of some "fish he caught about 15 mins ago" and 4 or 5 boats went over. we started laughing and they came on the radio about 30 minutes later and were hooking up on yellows in the 20-30lb range. we could see the birds diving and fish busting and the entire fleet pulling anchore. i laughed but he was pissed.

[jorluivil]

Ex-Aliso Village resident, I also carry one all the time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliso_Village



Aliso Village was one of the most impoverished areas of the city, and by the 1930s was considered one of the last remaining slums in the United States. Reformer Jacob Riis had visited The Flats in the early 1910s and declared them worse than anything in New York; a survey conducted by the city in the 1937 deemed 20% of the city's dwellings "unfit for human habitation," including most of The Flats. During World War II, the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) razed The Flats and built Aliso Village projects in their place. Like most of HACLA's 1940s projects, the Aliso Village projects were hailed at the time of their construction as some of the finest examples of the principles espoused by the garden city movement, and were racially integrated to boot.
Soon after the end the war, Aliso Village lost most of their non-Latino populations, and were increasingly populated by Mexican immigrants. With the river on one side and a massive rail yard on another, the construction of the East Los Angeles Interchange further isolated them from the rest of the city, and the closure of the Pacific Electric Railway dramatically reduced the mobility of many of the projects' residents. By the 1970s, overcrowding had eliminated much of Aliso Village's once-vaunted green spaces, physical deterioration had become rampant, and gangs were an increasing problem. In the 1980s the residents of Aliso Village began to organize with the support of Dolores Mission Church and its community organization, UNO, and began to address these problems. By the late eighties the residents of the two housing projects had developed a network of community groups that pushed for better services and began negotiating truces between the different gangs, thus reducing the level of violence. In 1996, HACLA wrote off the projects, against the residents desires'. In 2000 Aliso Village was demolished and replaced with the New Urbanist, Pueblo del Sol "workforce housing" project. In the process two thirds of the residents of the housing projects were displaced in a situation reminiscent of the Chavez Ravine incident