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Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

08-01-2014, 16:18

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This Short-Hand VHF Stuff is Driving me Insane

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Posted By colemj

Re: This Short-Hand VHF Stuff is Driving me Insane

There really isn't any "protocol" to boat-boat DSC calling beyond choosing a working channel. I have found that the majority of people who do know how to use a vhf properly do not know how to work...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

08-01-2014, 16:15

Replies: 98

This Short-Hand VHF Stuff is Driving me Insane

Views: 11,326

Posted By colemj

Re: This Short-Hand VHF Stuff is Driving me Insane

We do use the vhf correctly. We just aren't all wound up about everyone else's usage modes and don't feel any compulsion to act as deputized citizens - particularly when it comes to the locals or...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

08-01-2014, 15:14

Replies: 98

This Short-Hand VHF Stuff is Driving me Insane

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Posted By colemj

Re: This Short-Hand VHF Stuff is Driving me Insane

That is the safety/messaging use of DSC. In the context of this thread, the use of DSC to initiate a boat-boat call would not be transmitted to any boat other than that intended.

Mark

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

08-01-2014, 15:12

Replies: 98

This Short-Hand VHF Stuff is Driving me Insane

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Posted By colemj

Re: This Short-Hand VHF Stuff is Driving me Insane

Will you be making it your life mission to equip every restaurant, local fishing boat, local household, etc in every nation/island with these stickers, as well as explain the law to them? After...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

03-01-2014, 12:02

Replies: 98

This Short-Hand VHF Stuff is Driving me Insane

Views: 11,326

Posted By colemj

Re: this short-hand VHF stuff is driving me insane

Well, you can keep that stick up your backside and press the issue all you want to deaf ears, or you can adjust your channel usage to reflect how they are actually used in practice in the region you...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

03-01-2014, 11:56

Replies: 98

This Short-Hand VHF Stuff is Driving me Insane

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Posted By colemj

Re: This Short-Hand VHF Stuff is Driving me Insane

So throughout the Caribe, the locals use vhf like telephones. They sing in them, whistle in them, disregard any channel designations, use them on land, and a hundred other "illegal" uses.

Are...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

03-01-2014, 05:31

Replies: 98

This Short-Hand VHF Stuff is Driving me Insane

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Posted By colemj

Re: this short-hand VHF stuff is driving me insane

+1. If you have to hear hailing all day long, something like "Fox-Blue-switch" from boat Blue Screen of Death to boat Foxy Lady Bits to move to a predetermined talking channel is much preferred over...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

02-01-2014, 17:03

Replies: 98

This Short-Hand VHF Stuff is Driving me Insane

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Posted By colemj

Re: this short-hand VHF stuff is driving me insane

Oh yes - you still hear the "10-4" and "gotcher ears on?" stuff all the time. At least once a week someone won't get a response when hailing another boat and actually tell that boat over the radio...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

02-01-2014, 16:55

Replies: 98

This Short-Hand VHF Stuff is Driving me Insane

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Posted By colemj

Re: this short-hand VHF stuff is driving me insane

Must be a location thing, since you seem surprised. Throughout the US East coast and Caribbean, that is pretty much standard procedure for cruiser vhf contact, and has been that way for years. ...

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