Interesting idea from Australia and that is a 27MHz CB Radio with 27MHz Marine channels and these bands are user selectable from a menu. Guess in some ways making it a dual band CB Radio? They appear to come in a number of colours and are around £85 excluding duty and import taxes, shipping etc.
The GX400 is a versatile marine radio featuring both 27 MHz Marine band and 27 MHz Citizen band transceivers in one unit. Built to withstand the harsh marine environment the GX400 can be used at sea or on land.
Features marine and CB frequencies (user selectable) with waterproof speaker microphone and large backlit LCD screen with dimming function. Simple to operate channel scanning with memory plus dual watch and triple watch functions with channel 88 safety channel for marine application. Includes two priority channels and is waterproof rated to IPX7.
And the frequencies are:
27.680, 27.720, 27.820, 27.860, 27.880, 27.900, 27.910, 27.940, 27.960, 27.980
The link is below:
http://www.vkham.com/resources/cb-uhf-vhf-marine/frequency-usage#Australian 27MHz Marine Frequencies
Those are the marine frequencies you have quoted. On the CB side, it covers CEPT in AM mode.
It does also suggest that it covers 26 – 30.
https://www.gme.net.au/media/1445984/gx400_b.pdf
The radio looks very well built. Do you have any ideia on how it performs? ( I didn’t know that there were 27MHz marine channels!!!)
Rui.
Just added the frequencies at the bottom of the article as just received them for the marine band. It does indeed look well made.
I guess if you have a boat:
1st – Have enough money = can afford better radios
2nd – Don’t want to buy a cheap looking radio that does not go along with the expensive boat
3rd – cheap looking radios does will not impress on girls in bikinis
😀😀 That’s so true and I’d not thought of that reason 👍👍👍