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Larry

wrote in :

The most frequent one lately is "Channel 16 is for distress calls
only, Coast Guard Sector Long Island, OUT!"

If you want to find out how far this lack of station license usage as gone,
just call your local USCG radio operator using his call instead of "Coast
Guard Base, Charleston"!

If you call them by their callsign with your callsign, you probably won't
even get an answer....(c;