Peter Gottlieb wrote:
"Lockrdg" wrote in message
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I am looking for suggestions as
to which hand-held transcievers I might looking into buying.



I have the older Icom IC-A22 but I have user (or rather tried to use) the
VOR feature on it and consider it nearly useless for serious usage.

VOR's emit horizontally polarized signals, so you place the radio with
the antenna level with the horizon.
Comm signals are vertically polarized, so you hold the radio straight up
and down.
If you talk to FSS on a VOR frequency, you hold it vertically.
If you want to navigate with a VOR frequency, you hold it horizontally.