Cut the green wire.
"Friendships come in strange packages
The best ones are opened with a smile"
NA4BH '15
No, no! Cut the RED wire!
Like that post was...
Moving on, my posts are not helpful
I can throw my Yaesus in the creek, fish them out and keep using them like nothing happened. If the Kenwood was waterproof (not just "resistant") I would have bought it instead.
My VX6 and VX7 have seen a lot of wet weather. Snow, sleet, torrential downpours while affixed to motorcycle and bicycle alike. Vertex and Horizon (Standard) offer models of the same line which - in addition to the 2M amateur band - cover either the VHF-AM Aircraft allocation or the VHF-FM Marine band. Both waterproof as well, and both use the same accessories as the amateur rigs. If I had a boat or a plane, I'd definitely have one of the V/H/S radios along.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."