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17 February 2011, 19:37
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: N. Pembrokeshire
Boat name: Various
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Walkie Talkie Recommendations Please
For an upriver safety boat job....waterproof preferred. Anyone sell / got any recommendations please? 
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17 February 2011, 20:51
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Country: UK - England
Town: N. Devon
Boat name: (Not Another) Nutkin
Make: Highfield
Length: 6m +
Engine: Outboard, Honda 135
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I haven't seen any waterproof walkie talkies - why not stick with VHF and get a couple of m33s??
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17 February 2011, 21:36
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Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Central Belt of Scotland
Boat name: Puddleduck III
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17 February 2011, 21:47
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Country: UK - England
Town: N. Devon
Boat name: (Not Another) Nutkin
Make: Highfield
Length: 6m +
Engine: Outboard, Honda 135
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Originally Posted by SPR
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Hadn't seen them, nice toy but at £200 odd each I'd stick with the M33s
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17 February 2011, 21:52
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Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Central Belt of Scotland
Boat name: Puddleduck III
Make: Bombard
Length: 5m +
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Commercial Walk Talkies
http://www.mitex.co.uk/
S.
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17 February 2011, 21:53
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Town: Central Belt of Scotland
Boat name: Puddleduck III
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Originally Posted by treerat
Hadn't seen them, nice toy but at £200 odd each I'd stick with the M33s
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I am Icom dealer, i spend too much time reading specs, the mitex range are not PMR and are 5 Watt...
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17 February 2011, 22:39
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Town: Up Norf
Make: Avon SR4,Tremlett 23
Length: 4m +
Engine: Yam 55, Volvo 200
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Motorola do submersible ones. I know most sites I've worked on use Motorola which means theys always a decent supply on eBay.....
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18 February 2011, 01:38
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Country: UK - England
Town: Northumberland
Boat name: Dr Doof
Make: Humber
Length: 6m +
Engine: Mercury 125hp
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Maplin sell waterproof walkie talkies.
We got a set from there for around £80.
DORO WT91x pro, rated IPx7. PMR.
They seem to work pretty well. No complaints so far.
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18 February 2011, 02:15
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Originally Posted by Dr Doof
Maplin sell waterproof walkie talkies.
We got a set from there for around £80.
DORO WT91x pro, rated IPx7. PMR.
They seem to work pretty well. No complaints so far.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...K2Y8HD9FBRRC3B
A bit cheaper....these are still PMR ...The Mitex are Business Licence's and are a lot more powerful.
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18 February 2011, 08:28
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: N. Pembrokeshire
Boat name: Various
Make: RIBs & Hovercraft
Length: 9m +
Engine: Outboards
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Originally Posted by SPR
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Wow....cheers guys, great response as always!
That last linky (above) looks good for what we need.....TBH we could prob shout /hand signal /smoke signal to each other....one boat either side of the river, but this might look more professional 
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18 February 2011, 08:53
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Town: Alderney
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Originally Posted by Razorbill RIBs
one boat either side of the river
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Surely a perfect application for VHFs on low power?
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18 February 2011, 09:06
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: N. Pembrokeshire
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Originally Posted by Channel Ribs
Surely a perfect application for VHFs on low power?
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Technically, yes.... but don't really want to have to worry about filling the boaty air with any chit chat.....there are other users / boats nearby too. Also be handy for reeling off my double shot, italian mocha choca coffee order when the crew heads into town at lunch time
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18 February 2011, 13:55
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Country: UK - Wales
Make: Osprey
Length: 7m +
Engine: outboard
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Walkie Talkies.
Hi Dan,
DFD (Cilgeran) and I use the same walkie talkies for private chit chat
when doing safety boat duties, keeps us off the vhf and out of trouble!
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18 February 2011, 14:06
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Member
Country: UK - Wales
Town: N. Pembrokeshire
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Originally Posted by Viper
Hi Dan,
DFD (Cilgeran) and I use the same walkie talkies for private chit chat
when doing safety boat duties, keeps us off the vhf and out of trouble!
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It's you Viper!  Stu and I had had a chat about his friend who was on RIBnet....he didn't know your U'name though.....
Is yours the grey sponson'd Osprey I sometimes see out of Patch?
Dan
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18 February 2011, 14:10
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Country: UK - Channel Islands
Town: Alderney
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Originally Posted by Razorbill RIBs
Is yours the grey sponson'd Osprey I sometimes see out of Patch?
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 Dont mention the O word! Thread drift will occur, you mark my words. 
May as well move this to the bilges now and be done with it. 
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18 February 2011, 16:10
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Town: Up Norf
Make: Avon SR4,Tremlett 23
Length: 4m +
Engine: Yam 55, Volvo 200
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Originally Posted by Razorbill RIBs
Technically, yes.... but don't really want to have to worry about filling the boaty air with any chit chat.....there are other users / boats nearby too. Also be handy for reeling off my double shot, italian mocha choca coffee order when the crew heads into town at lunch time |
Can you not use a "fishermans channel" think its 10 and 13 round here, you can say what you like and no one bothers you....
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18 February 2011, 16:32
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chewy
Can you not use a "fishermans channel" think its 10 and 13 round here, you can say what you like and no one bothers you....
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Nicely done, I see what you did there.
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18 February 2011, 21:55
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Member
Country: UK - Wales
Town: N. Pembrokeshire
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Make: RIBs & Hovercraft
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Channel Ribs
Nicely done, I see what you did there. |
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18 February 2011, 23:22
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RIBnet supporter
Country: UK - England
Town: Dinard, Brittany
Boat name: Into the Red
Make: Osprey Vipermax
Length: 7m +
Engine: Evinrude E-tec 250HO
MMSI: 235 076 114
Join Date: Apr 2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Channel Ribs
Dont mention the O word! Thread drift will occur, you mark my words.
May as well move this to the bilges now and be done with it.
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You called... 
Viper, you might like to have a quick look at my signature......
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19 February 2011, 01:45
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Member
Country: UK - Wales
Make: Osprey
Length: 7m +
Engine: outboard
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Walkie Talkies
Dan, Not grey I have the blue O'viper with twin outboards that is usually out and about. Gotchiguy, I sent you the viper report and history!
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