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(Bob) wrote in :

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:04:32 GMT, Me wrote:

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

well dont forget the CG budget was starved for years. we have one of
the oldest CG fleets in the world and it's only now being upgraded.
comms is part of that. yes, CG comms are, to put it mildly, antique.

of course, there's always *CG on your cell phone
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to see who "wf3h" is, go to "qrz.com"
and enter 'wf3h' in the field

I offered to bring an IFR over to CG Charleston and TURN UP THE DEVIATION
ON THEIR VHF RADIOS.....so we could HEAR what was being said. To hear
them, here, you must turn your VHF volume control to maximum, especially if
the engine is running! It's been like that for years.

Talk of "deviation", I think, scares them....(c;