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Old 09-09-2018, 18:33   #61
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I appreciate your need to be snarky, but I didn't say anything wasn't true. What book would you recommend I read that will tell me if cruisers get the license or not?
Of course what you said was true. I did believe you. And it is the reason that listening to a hundred random people tell you what they found interesting enough to talk about is not a good way of being sure you know everything.

A quick check of the cruising guides I use for the Caribbean shows every one has a section on radio licensing.

You already found the authoritative source that everybody else quotes, the FCC. You seemed to not believe them. Why believe random strangers on this forum?
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Have had it since the early 90's - been boarded by USCG in both US and international waters several times and never been asked for it, but have it anyway.
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Old 09-09-2018, 20:01   #63
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Good seamanship includes meeting all the necessary guv'mit requirements to go to sea .
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Old 09-09-2018, 20:12   #64
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If you're planning on cruising abroad, why not?

In the time it would have taken to read this whole thread you could've taken care of it and had it on it's way. It's dead simple to get.
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https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=mtBoater

"Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Radio License Information
An FCC ship station radio license is no longer required for any vessel travelling in U.S. waters which uses a VHF marine radio, radar or EPIRB, and which is not required to carry radio equipment. A license is necessary however for any vessel required to carry a marine radio, on an international voyage, or carrying an HF single sideband radiotelephone or marine satellite terminal."

Never heard of anyone doing this. Does anyone?
ha. i was a professional pilot for more than forty years and never got the fcc license.
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Old 09-09-2018, 20:37   #66
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ha. i was a professional pilot for more than forty years and never got the fcc license.


Likely cause Decades ago a Pilot was no longer required to have one, nor the aircraft its radio station license.
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Old 09-09-2018, 21:50   #67
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Re: Does anyone get the FCC license?

However, Jim has had the FCC license for all the boats he's owned since I met him, and possibly before that! In addition to his ham radio license. And EPIRB registration.

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Old 09-09-2018, 22:27   #68
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ha. i was a professional pilot for more than forty years and never got the fcc license.
You are very lucky you were not involved in an accident in any of several countries in S. America.
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Old 10-09-2018, 01:05   #69
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But if for whatever unlikely reason they ask for your license when you did something that required one and you don't have one, pay the fine and give them your radios and don't whine on forums how unfair it is.
This is sounding more and more like the OP's situation. It's very clear that he needs one to be legal if departing US waters but keeps arguing about it.

If he runs across an official that demands it, pointing to the folks on this thread who have skirted the rules and got away with it isn't going to get him out of trouble.
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To clarify. If I might contact another radio operator outside of US waters on a VHF then I would need the Restricted Radio Licesne (RR). So anyone chartering a boat outside the US would need one to be legal?
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Big difference between "need to have" vs "need to show".

I've driven thousands of miles in Canada and never was asked to show my Drivers License...does that mean I didn't need one?
Check points on the road are pretty common in much of the world. Asking for radio liscense...nil in my experience.

I have a station liscense and a General liscense. Many countries you should technically get reciprical liscence for that country too...few do. Over decades in USA and Carib countries Ive never been asked for any of the above nor ever gotten a reciprical liscence.

Has anyone here ever actually been asked to produce station or individual liscence?
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Check points on the road are pretty common in much of the world. Asking for radio liscense...nil in my experience.
I've been thru a few checkpoints in various countries...never had to show my drivers license.

But even if you did, doesn't change the point...not being asked to show is still not the same as not being required.
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We are already funding the FCC through our taxes so when we use a service then we have to pay again? ... I'm sure there will be no mass layoffs of persons employed at the FCC if no licenses are issued since they are already funded through our taxes. Of course I could be wrong.

I suspect general taxes (e.g., a portion of income taxes) only fund the existence of the FCC and maybe a few general services... and that FCC recovers specific additional costs that they incur (as for creating and maintaining a specific data base, etc.) through direct user fees. Latter meaning only actual users are burdened with that specific cost...

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Check points on the road are pretty common in much of the world. Asking for radio liscense...nil in my experience.

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Have you been asked for your radio call sign? It is on most of the vessel check-in forms. To get the call sign you need a license.

While I've had to fill in dozens of forms that requested my call sign, the only place that wanted o see the actual license was the Galapagos.
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I suspect general taxes (e.g., a portion of income taxes) only fund the existence of the FCC and maybe a few general services... and that FCC recovers specific additional costs that they incur (as for creating and maintaining a specific data base, etc.) through direct user fees. Latter meaning only actual users are burdened with that specific cost...

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Thank you sincerely. That is the most intelligent response I have received in 2 years of questioning politicians, Coast Guard and various other entities. The maintenance of the database makes sense even if I think it is rather steep at $215 for Voluntary Ship's Station License and another $65 for the Restricted Radiotelephone License which I already have. Finally an explanation I can understand and find solace in.
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