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All radios are below decks except perhaps one directly in some wheelhouses. This does not stop the salt air from getting to them only the direct salt water spray. Living here where I do I have seen my share of radios go bad that were used on board both fishing boats and pleasure craft as well as radios mounted in the cabs of highway salt trucks. The salt makes it's way onto the floor of the cab and mixes with snow from the drivers boots. The cab heater melts this snow and dries it up making for a humid interior. Radio cases get covered in rust in short time and antenna and power connections get intermittent a lot as well as internal connections in the radios.

[QUOTE="Captain Kilowatt, post: 547115, member: 39"] All radios are below decks except perhaps one directly in some wheelhouses. This does not stop the salt air from getting to them only the direct salt water spray. Living here where I do I have seen my share of radios go bad that were used on board both fishing boats and pleasure craft as well as radios mounted in the cabs of highway salt trucks. The salt makes it's way onto the floor of the cab and mixes with snow from the drivers boots. The cab heater melts this snow and dries it up making for a humid interior. Radio cases get covered in rust in short time and antenna and power connections get intermittent a lot as well as internal connections in the radios. [/QUOTE]

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