Cheapest handheld VHF with channel M1/37?

[Bilgediver]

Last handheld died last year so replaced with a cobra HH350 which to my annoyance does not have this channel, which to me is pretty much the only channel that a handheld is used for.

The pointless magazine reviews all omit this highly useful piece of information so any recommendations!

Try switching on while holding 16/9 key and volume at same time . Your radio is on the wrong area. Some clubs near us use them on M.

 

[Mark-1]

Try switching on while holding 16/9 key and volume at same time . Your radio is on the wrong area. Some clubs near us use them on M.

If the manual is to be trusted none of the three areas supports M1, and since he's aware of the three areas, I'd bet good money the OP has double checked the physical radio matches the manual.

EDIT: Apologies, I'm wrong, looks like the manual might be wrong.

 

[ridgy]

If the manual is to be trusted none of the three areas supports M1, and since he's aware of the three areas, I'd bet good money the OP has double checked the physical radio matches the manual.

He might be on to something as interestingly the 150 manual does not list M1/M2 either but they come after 88:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9607/1577/files/MRHH150FLTE_MANL_REV_101323.pdf?v=1698343432

The 350 is on the boat so I will try that combination at the weekend.
A good thing about the 150 is that it takes AAA rechargeable batteries which are obviously user replacable. I have another older Cobra (which does have M1, and which the 350 replaced) where the battery no longer holds charge and replacement batteries are no longer available.

 

[Jodel]

I've yet to find a marina that answers calls to its published channel.

 

[PaulRainbow]

I've yet to find a marina that answers calls to its published channel.

Really ? Around here they all do IME

 

[D1bram]

I have two Standard Horizons, a HX300 and then the slightly newer HX320 - both pretty cheap and both do M1/M2. Though they took some faffing with to get the right region to allow me to select that

 

[Bilgediver]

If the manual is to be trusted none of the three areas supports M1, and since he's aware of the three areas, I'd bet good money the OP has double checked the physical radio matches the manual.

EDIT: Apologies, I'm wrong, looks like the manual might be wrong.

I have a feeling that this button push was not in some manuals however selecting the UK channels made them available.

 

[Dockhead]

Really ? Around here they all do IME

Around here, too.

Just one request -- switch your VHF set to low power (1 watt) so you don't step on all the conversations along the whole coast on that channel.