Icom High Powered Floating Handheld M37 VHF
Designed for commercial and recreational boaters, the M37 comes with 6 watts of power for further communications range. The M37 includes all the great features in the M36, plus Icom’s exclusive Float’n Flash and a larger capacity standard battery.
Output Power: | 6W | |
Battery Life: | 2350mAh Li-ion battery, up to 12 hours Typical operation; Tx:Rx:Stand-by duty ratio = 5:5:90 | |
Waterproof Rating: | IP7 | |
Floats: | Yes |
Design
The M37 is the perfect size and has an easy-to-grip design with large keys. A bigger LCD screen shows large channel numbers and status icons for easy readability.
Channel History Function
Icom is proud to include the channel history function in an entry level marine handheld. This feature stores the last five channels used for easy recall at the press of a single button.
Additional Features
- Float’n Flash function
- 700mW audio output
- Low battery alert function
- AquaQuake™ water draining function
- Dual/Tri-Watch function
- Instant access to channel 16 and the Call channel
- Weather channels with weather alert function
| General | |
|---|---|
| Frequency Range Tx Rx | 156.025–157.425 MHz 156.050–163.275 MHz |
| Usable channels | INT, USA, CAN, WX channels |
| Type of emission | 16K0G3E |
| Current drain (at 7.4V DC) Tx (6.0 W/1.0 W output) Rx (Max. audio. Inter SP/Exter SP) | 2.75 A/1.0 A 0.4 A/0.2 A |
Operating temperature range | -20°C to +60°C; -4°F to +140°F |
| Antenna Impedance | 50Ω |
| Dimensions (W×H×D) (Projections not included) | 59.7 × 140.5 × 38.7 mm, 2.4 × 5.5 × 1.5 in (with BP-296) |
| Weight (approx.) | 293 g, 10.3 oz (with BP-296, antenna and belt clip) |
| Transmitter | |
|---|---|
| Output power (Hi/Low) | 6W (High),1W (Low) |
| Max. frequency deviation | ± 5 kHz |
| Frequency stability | ±10 ppm |
| Spurious emissions | –68d Bc typical |
| Receiver | |
|---|---|
| Sensitivity (at 12dB SINAD) | 0.25 µV typical |
| Squelch sensitivity (Threshold) | 0.25 µV typical |
| Adjacent Channel Selectivity | 70dB typical |
| Spurious response | 70dB typical |
| Intermodulation | 70dB typical |
| Hum and noise | 40dB typical |
| Audio output power (at 10% distortion) Internal speaker | 0.7 W typical (8 Ω load) |