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Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:47:16 GMT
Xref: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com rec.boats.cruising:264507 rec.boats.electronics:61217
On 2005-08-09 said:
talk to HAMS? Get a HAM license. Want another potentially usefull
communications option? If you do much offshore work, you should
consider getting a hand held Aviation VHF radio with a AA battery
pack to put in your "ditch bag". Legal to own? yes. Legal to
operate? Not with out an appropriate license. But, if you just
stepped up from your boat into your life raft, it might be nice to
talk with commercial airline pilots overhead while the rescue
people figure out who the unregistred EPIRB you activated belongs
to. --- ILLEGAL ??? COME ARREST ME --- PLEASE ---- NOW!!!! Then
there is that damn USCG Master License test. You need to know
inland river rules when you only operate in the atlantic coast.
You need to know how many bolts on a 6 inch fire hose coupling when
you only operate a 50 foot motor vessel. They actually expect you
to know how to navigate with a chart, dividers, parallel ruler and
a pencil --- how archaic is that? Everyone uses GPSs now. .They
really need to dumb that test down too to accomodate those too dumb,
lazy or uninterested enough to be bothered to learn.
Agreed in many respects. I'd like to see the ham radio tests a little
tougher on the theory, question pools not available to anybody but
registered volunteer examiners etc. study materials should be built
around the student learning the damn material and not on memorizing
answers to multiple guess questions.
Richard Webb, amateur radio callsign nf5b
active on the Maritime Mobile service network, 14.300 mhz
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POOR PLANNING ON YOUR PART
Does NOT constitute an emergency on our part!
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