On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:55:03 GMT, ".Blueskies."
wrote:

: I'm thinking of doing the same(getting a handheld). Anyone have
: experiences w/ the Yaesu's? Their prices seam to be a little better.

Isn't Yaseu now called Vertex? I've owned both, but comm only; I had
the nav feature in a Sporty's when I first started flying and found it
useless for my purposes. I tried it once to prove it really worked,
but I use a GPS with eyeball backup for nav purposes.


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