"Jack Painter" wrote in
news:8L_Gd.18132$B95.563@lakeread02:

9. Automatic Direction Finding equipment with display on
computer-screen charts is selectable from all or individual
high-sites.

The Coast Guard watchstander at Group Charleston thought the "Morning Dew"
distress call was a hoax. Obviously, if he'd had VHF-DF capabilities and
knew how to use it, he would have seen the display light up BRIGHTLY as the
sinking boat was only a mile and a little from Sullivan's Island Light and
3.5 miles from CG Base Charleston in the Ashley River.

Is this new stuff since Morning Dew's debacle?


10. Digital recording devices capture 100% of all incoming traffic to
USCG Group receivers.


Yes, they do! It took three TV stations calling Sen Holling's office and a
lot of political pressure to pry those recordings out of a reluctant Coast
Guard's clutches....negating any doubt about them HEARING the boy on the
Morning Dew screaming for his life.

Let's WAKE THE BOATCREW and WASTE A LITTLE OF MY TAX MONEY!!