"Roger Long" wrote in
:

How is it that the FCC sent my MMSI number and restricted and station
permits right back when I notified them via application that I had
just purchased a DSC radio? If they are serious about this, wouldn't
that have been a good time to send a noticed saying, "Oh, by the
way..."

T

The ship license has nothing, really, to do with the operator's license.
FCC expects you to hire an operator for your "SHIP", just like Maersk
Emma has. You are a ship owner, you know...(c;

If you're not going to be signalling the yacht club shore station on DSC,
and only use it for dire emergencies, I don't think they have a leg to
stand on requiring you to have a GMDSS Operator's License....

Writing laws and enforcing them are different concepts.....just like
everyone driving 75 in the 60 mph zone on the beltway. They can't arrest
the whole population, I suppose.

Even after you get your GMDSS Maintainer's License with Radar
Endorsement....you still can't operate my 2 meter ham radio walkie talkie
without a ham license, another complete absurdity that's never been
corrected....

Your Grandfather would have been laying on the floor, holding his stomach
and laughing his ass off at all this back in 1916...(c;

2ABT 73 DE W4CSC.....wherever you are.

Boy, that would set a DX record hard to beat!