On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:09:22 -0400, HK wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:44:13 -0400, HK wrote:

VHF is just a clunky way to communicate when you have cell
phones and friends out in boats with cell phones.

Tell me, just out of curiosity, what is your understanding of how cell
phones work?


Let's see. I dial a phone number on my cell, I hear ringing, and either
the person I am calling answers, or I get his voice mail. The Bay
shoreline is peppered with cell towers; the only dead spot I have
encountered in years here is in the marina.

Do I need to know more about how cell phones work? Do I need a SWR meter
for my built in cell antenna? Directions in pushing the number keys?

Keys? I always call them buttons. I better find the cell manual.
This is one of those so far f**ked up threads with no answer for me
yet, but we'll get there.
There's at least 2 eccentrics with radio backgrounds slinging ****,
and one seemingly normal guy who stated the only useful info - he
commonly talks 20 miles with his VHF. But even he has some kind
of wave gizmo to constantly check that his signals are "tuned."
Bunch of weirdos. And us cell phone guys have to rely on them?

--Vic