"Bobsprit" wrote in message

The ideal rig has access to
both band spectra.

Max

Max, what would radios would be on your list...budget and high price, that
could also do marine SSB out of the box?

I'm unaware of any ham HF rigs that will transmit on marine SSB bands out of
the box. They all will receive them, however. I do think some marine SSB
rigs are easily modified for ham bands, however, but I don't know the market
well in those. Almost any ham transceiver can be modified to transmit in
the marine bands, but how hard and at what expense to effect the
modifications is unknown to me.

I'm partial to Yaesu and Kenwood, but oddly enough I have an ICOM 706 on my
boat.

Max