You don’t need to spend a bundle of cash to get a first-class handheld VHF radio. In this, our second VHF review of 2006, we’ll show that a C-note might be all it takes.

Dropping down a notch in price from the more expensive radios in our previous test (published July 2006) doesn’t necessarily mean sacrificing the quality, performance, functions, or features we believe are most important. In our testing, most of these radios performed as well as those in the more expensive group in all categories. …