I'm not normally rude to ****heads like you - but you're not answering
his question. You must be another ****ing Bush Republican.

It is perfectly legal to modify ham radios so they can transmit on
marine SSB freq's in an emergency.

Go ask your Mother - she'll confirm this.

BTW - 25 knots and 10 ft seas in a 38' boat is just exciting sailing.
We get that frequently between Long Beach and Catalina - and it's
great fast sailing.




On Sun, 9 May 2004 01:13:45 -0400, "Jack Painter"
wrote:

"Eric" wrote in message
. com...
I am looking for an inexpensive tranceiver for my sailboat.I am
rapidly running out of money and need a cheap reliable rig.I have just
insulated my backstay(37 feet).aAny ideas? Thanks,Eric.

Eric,

Your somewhat typical request elcited somewhat typical replies so far.

Maybe it's helpful to you to get an answer to that question, but I think
you're attitude is likely to cost someone's life, probably your own. If you
really think getting a "cheap reliable rig" as you are now "rapidly running
out of money" is the acceptable order of things before an offshore
excursion, you are an accident waiting to happen. Well meaning but improper
advice from the group comes complete with telling you it's easy to break the
law, and encouraging you to do so. These legal eagles really believe that so
long as you later have an emergency (assured in your case Eric), you didn't
break any law. They are wrong, as are your priorities. Instead of
compounding your mistakes with their bad advice, your whole sailing
experience would be more enjoyable and safer if you would learn some simple
safe boating practices. Then you would be more likely to prevent the need
for cheap radios you are not licensed or trained to use, as well as
understand the fallacy of advice to believe in illegal operation as a saving
grace to other inadequacies.

I recommend you take some seamanship, communications and other safe boating
courses offered by the United States Power Squadrons and United States Coast
Guard Auxiliary via your nearest marina or boating center. Then you could be
safely enjoying the water and able to help others do the same instead of
learning to break the law and operating recklessly from a vessel and crew of
uncertain capabilities. Like the 38' sloop we saw today - watching her
"master" try to teach his only mate, a totally inexperienced girl, how to
raise the mainsail while he headed them out into 10' rollers in a 25kt NE
under small craft warnings this morning. I wonder if he was confident that
his illegally modifed "cheap" SSB radio could have raised us. It would fit
the bill.

Sincerely,

Jack Painter
USCG Auxiliary
Virginia Beach, Va