"Me" wrote
"Jack Painter" wrote:

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This is the worst advise I have ever heard from an otherwise
knowledgeable
person.
It is inaccurate, dangerous, and reflects only the personal opinion of a
Ham
operator who is spreading misinformation about the USCG, safe boating
procedures and the priority of emergency communications at sea. Mariners
should understand and follow only approved USCG procedures for emergency
communications at sea. The great work of the Maritime Mobile Service
Network
in assisting mariners via long range HF communications is NEVER to be
given
priority over contact with USCG units for safety of life at sea. MMSN is
a
wonderful tool for boaters who are also licensed Ham operators, and its
many
operators would help ANY vessel they are able to assist. But MMSN should
only be used in an emergency as an ALTERNATE to primary USCG
communications
for safety of life at sea.

See http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/marcomms/cgcomms/call.htm for detailed
information.

Drill up from that URL to find details of other maritime communications
information.

Jack Painter
Virginia Beach, VA
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Chuck that should also answer your question from this thread.



This is some of the WORST ADVICE from one who SHOULD know better.
Jack, why don't you climb down off your USCG/Aux Cross, and chill
out a bit. Out there on the Right Coast, where every local town has a
USCG Contigent, there may be a case for 2182 Khz being a bit usefull,
but up here in Alaska, where the Watch Receivers are streached out to
MORE than 500 Miles apart, 2182 hasn't EVER been a real usefull frequency
EVER. This is due to it's daytime average range in the 150 to 200 Miles,
area. Now this doesn't even include the MORE Than Likely possibility
that the Remote Site HF Radios, are broke and the techs can't get there
to fix them, because of weather, and, or lack of SPARES for that OLD
CRAP.
In the REAL World, no one uses MF for Emergency Comm's, and haven't for
MANY YEARS. The Commercial Boys use 4125 Khz and talk to Kodiak, Frisco,
or Honolulu, when things get tough. If CommSta Kodiak is not available
due to propagation, then there are PLENTY of Limited Coast Stations
that are, and they LINE the Coast from Seattle to Dutch Harbor. The USCG
does the best they can with the money that Congress gives them, BUT tell
us all, "HOW MANY YEARS BEHIND IS THE USCG IN GMDSS COVERAGE for ALL
US WATERS??????????????????", and compare this with the Wester Europeon's
??????????????

Me

Dear You, maybe you paid attention only to the latter part of the thread, or
think anyone describing "US coastal-continental waters" (a quote from the
thread, which is the only subject of our 2182 khz portion of this
discussion) somehow includes ALASKA. It does not. You don't live in
US-coastal-continental waters you old sea horse. Accordingly, your tirade is
misdirected, and not applicable to anything we have been talking about. But
it's so nice to hear from you!

Sea Area A-1 for VHF-DSC-GMDSS (Ch-70) is way behind schedule, no argument
there.

Current excuses provided a

1. General Dynamic's subcontractor was late achieving software performance
and approval.

2. Environmental Activist and personal property-owner objections to
acquisition of rights for new tower locations have prevented infrastructure
completion.

3. Allocation of resources to Homeland Security missions given higher
priorities.

On the HF-DSC-GMDSS and SAT-DSC-GMDSS side, compliance was achieved long
ago.

Best regards,

Jack Painter,
Virginia Beach, Virginia