On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 15:02:36 GMT, Cleesturtle wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:01:22 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:


I usually listen to 16 on the Bay.

16 what...16 candles on your 17 year old portable cassette player,
while sitting on a dirty pickle bucket on shore, drinking a forty?

The Coasties are on the channel
frequently with reports of missing boats, or boats in trouble, et
cetera. Every so often, a boater will ask for a "radio check" while on
16, and usually the Coasties tell the boater to use another channel for
that. Perfectly appropriate for the Coasties to do that.

Not true. More proof you know nothing, and fabricate your boating
experience.

Many older radios are "rock bound", meaning they are crystal contolled
on 16. It is, and always has been, very common to get radio checks on
16.

Caught in another fabrication, you boatles twit...care to comment?

I thought not... [huge grin]

I don't know about Harry, but I will. :)

Just out curiosity, because I haven't seen or worked on a marine vhf
radio in, hell, twenty years or so, I looked on the web for VHF
crystals. What do you know - they still make 'em!!!!

I didn't have the same luck looking for the radios, however.

I'd be curious how many of thie crystal controlled radios are still in
service....

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653