But this unlucky fish hit an open port cover and was deflected down into the cabin, into my sleeping bag, where I lay asleep in a more or less unclothed condition. One night as I lay asleep, sailing along in the tropics under autopilot control, a flying fish flew across the top of my boat's cabin. And there is no safe location for a radio - at some point in a long ocean voyage, salt water will get everywhere.Īnd not just salt water. Given enough time, nature will take care of that for you. In this informal ranking, the Icom score remained relatively high, hence my current prejudice (and that's what it is - a prejudice, the choice of a lazy mind).Ī digression: don't misunderstand - I didn't deliberately splash salt water on my radios, but there's no need to arrange such a stress test while sailing on the open ocean.
This may sound rather narrow-minded, but during my solo around-the-world sail, I watched every single piece of electronics give up the ghost at least once, and I began to rank radios by how long they lasted after a gallon of cold salt water was splashed on them.
I recently decided there's no point in having any radios apart from Icoms. I haven't been active that entire time, but I've always had a few interesting radios around, home-built in the early days, and increasingly exotic as I matured. I've been a radio amateur for about 50 years (currently KE7ZZ).
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