A friend, driving home from a fishing trip in northern Michigan with his
boat in tow, had engine trouble a few miles inland from Lake Huron.

He didn't have a CB radio in his car, so he decided to use his marine radio
to get help. Climbing into his boat, he broadcast his call letters and asked
for assistance.

A Coast Guard officer responded, "Please give your location."

"I'm on Interstate-75, two miles south of Standish."

The officer paused, "Could you repeat that?"

"I-75, two miles south of Standish."

A longer pause. Then an incredulous voice asked, "How fast were you going
when you hit shore?"

"Thomas Flores" wrote in
:

A friend, driving home from a fishing trip in northern Michigan with
his boat in tow, had engine trouble a few miles inland from Lake
Huron.

He didn't have a CB radio in his car, so he decided to use his marine
radio to get help. Climbing into his boat, he broadcast his call
letters and asked for assistance.

A Coast Guard officer responded, "Please give your location."

"I'm on Interstate-75, two miles south of Standish."

The officer paused, "Could you repeat that?"

"I-75, two miles south of Standish."

A longer pause. Then an incredulous voice asked, "How fast were you
going when you hit shore?"




I had a friend, who died about 8 years ago, who ran a 12 truck pest control
business on Marine VHF channel 13, the ship-to-ship channel, in Greenville,
SC, up in the mountains for something like 20 years. Marine radios were
cheap and he already had a 155 Mhz antenna up at the office on the side of
the mountain that worked very well on Marine VHF.

No ships ever complained in the South Carolina mountains, either! They
never heard another soul on their "Private Channel"....(c;

"Hey, Mike! Go over to Denny's on XXX drive and hose down the roaches in
the kitchen. They saw some during breakfast this morning.....OUT!"

FCC doesn't monitor the ship-to-ship channel in the mountains much.
There's no CG Base by the creek in Greenville, either....