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Power boaters and their wakes
mr.b wrote:
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:38:47 -0500, Wayne.B wrote: As long as you are calling someone and keep it brief, there is no abuse of 16. bzzzt! Oh sorry Wayne, but thanks for playing. The handout we got from the Coast Guard recommends contacting boats (for any reason) on 16 and then immediately switching to another channel. Stephen |
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Power boaters and their wakes
Stephen Trapani wrote:
mr.b wrote: On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:38:47 -0500, Wayne.B wrote: As long as you are calling someone and keep it brief, there is no abuse of 16. bzzzt! Oh sorry Wayne, but thanks for playing. The handout we got from the Coast Guard recommends contacting boats (for any reason) on 16 and then immediately switching to another channel. True. But even the CG can't adhere to this all the time. They will try to switch someone who is having a problem to channel 22Alpha, and won't be able to do it. If you contact someone, about passing in the ICW, you have to have at least ONE response from them in order to do that "immediate switching" to another channel. It's quicker, and easier, and ties up the channel LESS, if you contact them briefly and state your intentions in one short transmission, and they acknowledge. If they don't acknowledge, you don't know if they have heard you. And some radios are not very easy to switch from one channel to another. We were called by someone in Norfolk on Channel 16 - they had been traveling along the ICW at about the same speed as we were. The wanted to tell us that there was a tug and barge coming up behind us that wanted to pass who had been calling us on the radio, but we hadn't heard them. We didn't need to switch to talk about it. They called, we answered, they told us to move over and that was it. And if you switch to another channel, you have to have someone to operate the radio (or you have take time to change the channel depending on your setup) and then make contact again - all to say what you could have said in one short transmission and answer. Which ties up the channel less? A: Wet Dreams, Wet Dreams this is Blythe Spirit - stay close, go slow and we will shift back to neutral as you pass. Over And then either - OK Blythe Spirit Out or (more likely) no answer. B. Wet Dreams Wet Dreams. This is Blythe Spirit - shift and answer channel 69.. Wet Dreams, Wet Dreams this is Blythe Spirit on 69. if you give us a nice pass we will shift to neutral as you pass. (no answer) Wet Dreams this is Blythe Spirit on 69 Wet Dreams this is Blythe Spirit on 16 and by that time Wet Dreams has caught up and the whole thing becomes moot. If you are talking to someone on a regular basis and at length, then yes, you ought to contact and switch. I don't need to hear all the fishermen discussing their catch or that kind of thing. In that case you probably already have an agreed on channel to switch to. |
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