The new Standard Horizon Marine Radio HX-370S handheld radio has features of
interest to US Coast Guard Auxiliary, Civil Air Patrol, etc. It has 40 FCC
part 90 (land mobile) dealer software programmable memory channels and
covers the frequency range 137-174 Mhz. This includes the 2 meter ham bands.
It includes CTCSS and selectable 5 HZ or 2.5 KHz channels. It meets the new
2.5 ppm stability requirement for CG Auxiliary and CAP. The only problems I
see for CG Auxiliary/CAP use is there is not a direct external power jack
and the receiver intermodulation is only 70 dB, not the 80 dB that the NTIA
requires. However, it is the only thing on the market I know of that has
this frequency range and is both marine and land mobile type approved.
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Doug K7ABX, Assistant District Staff Officer-Communications (South), 13th
District CG Auxiliary