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Default Fed Register: High Frequency (HF) Radio Broadcasts of Marine Weather Forecasts may soon end

On Apr 26, 4:38?pm, krj wrote:
JOSEPH D HERSEY wrote:
Yes, you are correct.


---Looks like this only affects HF radio, not VHF. Am I correct?


"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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On Apr 26, 4:10?am, wrote:
Federal Register: April 26, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 80)]
[Notices]
[Page 20863-20865]From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]


[DOCID:fr26ap07-72]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY


Coast Guard


[USCG-2007-27656]


High Frequency (HF) Radio Broadcasts of Marine Weather Forecasts and
Warnings


AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.


ACTION: Notice; request for public comments.


Yes, but try getting weather on the VHF 100 miles from shore.- Hide quoted text -

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Like most coastal cruising stink potters, that wouldn't be an issue
for me.
However, for sailors and some LRC folks it would present a problem.