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Originally Posted by goboatingnow  ...I am a CEPT license VHF instructor |
Your being a CEPT instructor has led you into the error of assuming that the requirements of the CEPT member countries represents the INTERNATIONAL practice/requirements that the original poster asks about. In fact most of the world (including all countries outside of Europe) are not CEPT members.
My post represents the international practice asked for and is factually correct. And as others have represented from their experience many places are more relaxed regarding radio use than I indicated - that not necessarily because of lack of will to police them as in some countries a soft approach is taken with pleasure boaters in order to encourage the carriage of VHF for safety reasons.
Should your being a CEPT instructor make you familiar with the requirements of Finland (it being a CEPT member and apparantly the home country of the original poster) you could have best served him by limiting your comments to that rather than confusingly claiming your own parochial requirements apply to the world.
Even within CEPT, as I expect you know, there is in at least the one CEPT country I have some familiarity with the easy possibility of addressing the main concern of the original poster allowing one to very feely use a portable VHF on other vessels but you do not allow for that in your response.
Note: I no longer post to this forum except for the sake of good order when someone has countered a past post of mine with false facts where safety is involved.