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RadioActive
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VHF Marine Radio - Lake Martin
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7/4/2012 6:24:44 PM
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Secondly, my guess would be that VHF Marine channel 9 would be the appropriate place to start. From the USCG website:
"Boater Calling Channel (VHF Channel 9)
The Federal Communications Commission established VHF-FM channel 9 as a supplementary calling channel for noncommercial vessels (recreational boaters) at the request of the Coast Guard. A ship or shore unit wishing to call a boater would do so on channel 9, and anyone (boaters included) wishing to call a commercial ship or shore activity would continue to do so on channel 16. Recreational boaters would continue to call the Coast Guard and any commercial facility on channel 16.
The purpose of the FCC regulation was to relieve congestion on VHF channel 16, the distress, safety and calling frequency. FCC regulations require boaters having VHF radios to maintain a watch on either VHF channel 9 or channel 16, whenever the radio is turned on and not communicating with another station.
Since the Coast Guard generally does not have the capability of announcing an urgent marine information broadcast or weather warning on channel 9, use of channel 9 is optional. We recommend boaters normally keep tuned to and use channel 16 in those waters unless otherwise notified by the Coast Guard."
Further, the USCG says:
"CELLULAR TELEPHONES ON BOATS
The Coast Guard does not advocate cellular phones as a substitute for the regular maritime radio distress and safety systems recognized by the Federal Communications Commission and the International Radio Regulations -- particularly VHF maritime radio."
Since AMP says it does not monitor VHF at all and there are no USCG warnings on Channel 16 as in coastal areas, Channel 9 looks like a good place to put your radio to monitor, and I'll certainly do that with mine when I am afloat.
Channels 68, 69, 71, and 78 are for non-commercial uses, so one of those would be an appropriate place to move after meeting up on Channel 9.
-- RadioActive
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