Uniden MHS75 Waterproof Handheld 2-Way VHF Marine radio, Submersible, Selectable 1/2.5/5 Watt Transmit Power. All USA/International and Canadian Marine Channels - Color Black

Love this little radio. Battery life is fantastic, brings in signals other radios do not, knobs to set squelch and volume. #1 drawback is radio does not float (nor does it claim to). Don't drop it overboard! #2 drawback - radio only comes with 12V charger (plugs into cigarette lighter port). Bought a 12V power supply with cigarette port that plugs into normal 120V AC socket. The power supply can also power my 12V air compressors from house outlet instead of having to start car. Had the radio on for two days of cruising with 18 other sailboats, and had to communicate with 3 bridge tenders (twice each). Battery still showed 50% at the end of 2 days without any recharging. Outstanding battery life for a handheld radio. Reception was clear, loud, and completely understandable. Everybody I talked to heard us fine on the 1W setting, never went to higher transmit power.

Title says it all, I'm not the person you should base your purchase on. That being said I will give my observations and thoughts on this radio. Hardware: Nice. Really nice. This radio is solid and feels great in your hand. It looks great and has logically placed and responsive controls. The display is bright, clear and easy to interpret. The volume and squelch controls are smooth and have a nice solid "click" when turning off the radio. The keypad buttons are labeled, lighted and spaced for effortless use. This is a really nice device regardless of it's intended use. Radio: I live inland. About 60 miles from the US Gulf Coast. There is zero radio traffic on the marine bands where I live. I can not tell you anything about the marine radio on this thing... yet. Later this year I will return to kayaking and perhaps I'll update this review. The Weather Radio is excellent! Best weather radio I have ever owned. Several channels are clear in my area and at least two channels are "5 by 5" all the time. The weather alert function actually works! A tornado warning occurred late one night and as I had intentionally left the radio on it broke squelch and I was warned as you would expect. (it did not squelch after the alert was concluded) The battery lasts a long time. I wish my cell phone would last like this. The night I had left the radio on was several days into a discharge and even after that there was plenty of battery left. Great battery life! If I could find this same product working as an FRS GMRS radio I would gladly pay the same price again. This is good hardware!

Purchased this to take out on the ocean in Monterey Bay on one-man and two-man Outrigger canoes. There are times we are more than a mile from shore, and three or four miles from the harbor. It seemed to be prudent to have a radio. Last week there was a rescue within 200 yards of the Coast Guard pier of two experienced kayakers who got flipped in rough chop. They had a radio and were picked up quickly. Without the radio they may have been in the water much longer before someone saw them and called for help. Nice high quality radio. This radio has held it's charge for over a month, turned off between uses. It is nice to listen to the weather channel while heading to the water. The radio is clear and plenty loud. Simple to use and to set up scanning. I like that it is totally waterproof, since we get pretty wet and may even flip into the water. It fits into a pocket on my Camel Back fanny pack, because it is small. I have a longer leash tied to the belt so I won't lose it, since it doesn't float, but I would rather have it smaller and tie it on. I did buy a plug in 12 volt converter to charge it at home. (Garmin brand, since I have a Garmin GPS, and I wanted to get enough power to charge that too.) I looked at a lot of radios and I am really happy with this choice.

this is my third and last radio from uniden. the radio itself works well and i like having knobs to turn the volume and the squelch rather than push buttons like on other radio models. the sound through the speaker is a bit distorted as it got wet a few times...would by nice to have a "burp"feature" on it. Now for the charger...what a piece of junk! got my first radio years ago and the plastic clips that hold it to the radio broke in a short time. i had to wrap black electrical tape around it to hold it to the radio in order to get it to charge. this year while trying to attach the charger to the radio i lightly bumped the chargers plug against a wooden table and the end snapped off. now i had a radio i liked but no way to charge it! i wanted another small radio (fits in several of my pfds nicely) so i took a chance and ordered another one like it. i reasoned that if i was careful i would have a new charger and maybe i could get a few years out of my old one yet. well when i received the new one i took everything out of the packaging and clipped the charger to the new radio...immediately one of the clips on the charger broke! i was hoping that maybe after all this time maybe uniden had enough complaints about their charger and made a better one. they did not:( it is a real shame to have a decent radio on the market and then pair it with a cheap charger. guess i'm back to wrapping the charger and radio together with tape in order to keep using it...

Work very good for my purposes.

Great quality, exactly as expected.

I bought these about 15 years ago and probably the last time I charged them was 2012. They’ve been in Chicago garage for almost 15 years. I just turned them on and they both had three out of four bars on the battery.

MUY BUEN RADIOS PENSE QUE ESTABA MUY AUSTERO PERO TODO LO CONTRARIO LE DOY 100 DE 10 👍

Fonctionne très bien

Not waterproof after about 20 minutes submerged

Es mejor buscar un radio como este que darle vuelta si un cobra u otro

Had it out on thd lake erie this weekend , weather chanel was clear , and was easy to use .