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

• 1.5" diagonal LCD
• 6 Watts output power
• 8 hour lithium-ion battery
• Optional Speaker/Mic
• Dual Watch, scan functions

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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This is my 3rd Radio and my fellow sailors have several other brands of portable VHF radios. By far this is the best.

The quality is excellent. Easy to use. The battery lasts over 24h with heavy usage and continuous scanning.

The only catch is that I had to purchase separate a car charger so I can charge it on the boat during extensive trips.

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Have used this radio going on about a week, took about 15 min to set up and it retains its settings after powering off and truing back on. The instant loud feature is appreciated at full throttle, and it really gets loud! Everything works better than expected. And the Box lies when it says that the radio gets a paltry 9 hours of battery life, as I have left it on scan for over 24. The only problem I had with the radio is that the charger likes to really clamp on to the bottom of the thing and it takes a little muscle to get it off the charger. But besides that its great!

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Got this for the BVIs and was so lucky I had it because our boat VHS transmit didn't work. Its also handy because I never had to worry about the kids dropping it in the water .....because it FLOATS!

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This is the third hand held VHF I have owned over the past many years. All have been ICOM and all have been excellent for the purpose of backing up my main yacht VHF. Usually last ten to fifteen years and then die. Burial at sea in all cases.