Cobra MRHH350FLT Floating VHF Long Range Marine Radio, Tri-Watch, Burp Feature
The best value in our handheld VHF radio line up! Backed by 50 years of Cobra quality, this floating radio has an orange core for higher visibility and is easy to retrieve if dropped overboard. It features 6 Watts of power for longer range communications and full access to all NOAA weather channels and alarm tones for weather emergencies. It also includes all of the core features like Noise canceling microphone, JIS7/IPX7 rated Submersible, Tri-Watch, Memory Channels, Memory Scan and BURP.
Product Features
- IT FLOATS – Never worry about losing your radio overboard! The floating design and orange core makes it easy to retrieve from the water. COAST GUARD WATERPROOF
- STANDARD JIS7 means it is submersible for 30 minutes in up to 3ft/1M deep water
- SHORT OR LONG RANGE – Clearly communicate with 1,3 or 6 Watt output options so that you’re never alone on the water. With Tri-Watch you can monitor 3 channels simultaneously
- INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE – with 3 channel maps, you can confidently navigate around the USA, Canada and International waters with coverage you can count on and convenient unlimited memory to make channel recall simple w/ easy-to-read signal meter
- 10 NOAA WEATHER CHANNELS – Be the first to know of incoming hazards or changing weather w/ instant access to NOAA weather channels 24 hours a day and audible tone if an emergency or threatening weather is nearby while monitoring up to 3 channels at once
- EASY TO USE – The ergonomic and compact design is comfortable to hold and intuitive to operate with a backlit display making communication easy in all conditions, featuring innovative BURP design that vibrates water to clear the speaker when wet
OK for a year, then speaker stopped working Note that this is designed to float, and that it has some sort of “auto speaker purge” function that’s designed to “purge” water out of the speaker after immersion, though that sounds pretty gimmicky tbh. I’ve used this very occasionally for a bit over a yearâthe odd weekend here and there is about it. Rarely had to charge it even. Seemed great, and the “weather alert” function came in real handy once when I was out with my young sons. Though it’s supposed to float and be submersible, I never…
not for ocean use For my canoe club, we purchased 6 of these allegedly waterproof radios in February of 2017. Didn’t see any actual use until March 15 of 2017. As of todays date, July 30, 2017, 4 of the 6 are non functional, return window has expired. Biggest culprit was the on/off/volume knob was extremely susceptible to corrosion from incidental salt water contact. Corrodes so much that knob sticks and it becomes impossible to move.Perhaps if you were using these on a fresh water lake, they…
Decent Radio For The Weekend Warrior. Overall this is a decent radio. I bought this VHF to wear on my PFD when kayak fishing larger lakes/coastal waters and to stay in contact with buddies during river float trips. It’s held up great so far. Just make sure you clean off the salt spray after use like you should be doing with all of your gear!The battery life is great. I always scan several channels and usually transmit on the lowest power setting. After two full days of use the battery indicator just dropped two bars…