inappropriate radio chat?

Nostrodamus said:
Well item "B" means we cannot have a radio net at all as sharing a ride to the local supermarket hardly falls into the essential transmissions class (that is of course if I have run out of beer).
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Item b) only applies to Channel 16. No problem if you put out a general call on 16 saying "All boats on the XXX Net go to Channel YY", where YY is a ship-to-ship channel (6, 8, 72 or 77).

However, c) means that the net should be for business (like, perhaps, arranging shared rides!), not chit-chat.

Of course, in practise, few people would worry too much as long as you don't clog channel 16. It probably isn't a good idea to use channel 6 for long periods, either, as it is designated for SAR coordination under GMDSS.
 
Just out of interest... I presume the licencing laws I signed up to only apply within British waters and at the moment I am under Italian licencing laws which I didn't sign up to.
I accept that I may have to curb my verbal's on the radio.
Now why doesn't someone tell those professional crews on merchant shipping who chatter all night on 16...
 
Nostrodamus said:
Just out of interest... I presume the licencing laws I signed up to only apply within British waters and at the moment I am under Italian licencing laws which I didn't sign up to.
I accept that I may have to curb my verbal's on the radio.
Now why doesn't someone tell those professional crews on merchant shipping who chatter all night on 16...
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MOST of the radio rules are prescribed by the ITU and the IMO. There are local additions and exceptions, but these are things like the use of M1 and M2 as marina channels in the UK. So, there is little variation in the bulk of the rules, though of course there may be different shades of interpretation of said rules.

And even merchant seamen are wrong to chatter on channel 16, and if in range of a coastguard or similar organization, I'd expect them to be told so.
 
Nostrodamus said:
Just out of interest... I presume the licencing laws I signed up to only apply within British waters and at the moment I am under Italian licencing laws which I didn't sign up to.
I accept that I may have to curb my verbal's on the radio.
Now why doesn't someone tell those professional crews on merchant shipping who chatter all night on 16...
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The licencing laws of each country are just local implementations of international agreements (mostly the ITU) and should be broadly compatible. In fact, OFCOM which enforces the rules in this country is under pressure to tighten up by other national authorities which believe they are being too lax.

Don't take the behaviour of merchant shipping as any guide to behaviour - they are the worst examples you can find very often.
 
AntarcticPilot said:
MOST of the radio rules are prescribed by the ITU and the IMO. There are local additions and exceptions, but these are things like the use of M1 and M2 as marina channels in the UK. So, there is little variation in the bulk of the rules, though of course there may be different shades of interpretation of said rules.

And even merchant seamen are wrong to chatter on channel 16, and if in range of a coastguard or similar organization, I'd expect them to be told so.
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What surprised me when sailing in the Atlantic was the prolific radio chatter on 16 but the coast guard said nothing...probably because they could not get in. I think we covered this in another post so I shall say no more.
 
Nostrodamus said:
... at the bottom is a video of one of the funniest commercials I have seen in a long time
It is adult content so if easily offended please do not go there.
Also make sure their are no children around as you may have some explaining to do.
But it is funny.
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It seems that anybody that doesn't share your sense of humour either has a "sense of humour failure" or is "easily offended". Maybe they just don't share YOUR sense of humour (in this context)?
 
If you think the OPs words were a little off colour then you should have sat with me on a train out from London last night. A large group of rowdy England soccer supporters were making their way back to Pompey, having watched England qualify for the World Cup finals. Apart from the customary use of an F or a C word every third word, there were some totally explicit descriptions of sexual activities of a back passage nature, a lot of homophobic remarks and many comments on what they would do to "f****ing peedofiles" (sic of course). Whilst this was unpleasant for the rest of the passengers, it is not unusual on late trains anywhere. What was really shocking was that in the group were several youngsters, ages between 8 and 10 I would guess. What chance have they ever got of growing up decently when their role models behave like these guys did?
 
Nostro, having spent last winter in same said marina, the morning net needed a little humour and banter. It is not possible to please all of the people all of the time as humour is a personal thing. The children last year were not interested in the 'boring' adult net so doubt there would be much explaining to do. We are sharing your joke with our Aussie ( amongst others) friends as soon as they arrive at this winters marina. Keep 'em coming!
 
Made me smile, but TBH telling that joke over the radio is the sort of thing you might do at midnight when pi55ed and feel very embarrassed about afterwards. Makes you look uncouth.
 
Nostrodamus said:
Look, I may well be at fault here so I will put it to the wisdom of the forum to decide.

Over winter in this marina there is a large liveaboard community. The marina is in the Med.
Each morning at 0900 there is a radio net with the usual weather, items for sale, help, social activities. This is on a non working channel.
Now I like to bring a little bit of humour to the net so yesterday I said

"On this day In 1872 the Australians invented the condom, using a sheep’s bladder.

On this day In 1873 the British somewhat refined the idea by taking the bladder out of the sheep first".

Today at the beginning of the broadcast we were told that the net could be heard up to 25 miles away so we should not make jokes, sexual or racial references and stick to only the essentials.

To me someone has a sense of humour failure but it may well be me who's wrong.

what do you think?
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Good joke. Made I larrf:)
 
Personally I can't abide marina "radio nets". The last thing I want to hear is useless chatter from the radios on the boats either side of me. And around Marmaris in Turkey it's positively dangerous. There, in order for one net to cover both Yat Marin and Netsel, they all use 25w. In addition, the net encourages people to move to other working channels to continue private conversations. Consequently, if you sail anywhere close to Marmaris you cannot use you VHF radio at all for communicating with the coastguard or other yachts, because every working channel is jammed with people chatting about sewing circles, barbecues and quiz nights. Grrrr.
 
Tony Cross said:
Personally I can't abide marina "radio nets". The last thing I want to hear is useless chatter from the radios on the boats either side of me. And around Marmaris in Turkey it's positively dangerous. There, in order for one net to cover both Yat Marin and Netsel, they all use 25w. In addition, the net encourages people to move to other working channels to continue private conversations. Consequently, if you sail anywhere close to Marmaris you cannot use you VHF radio at all for communicating with the coastguard or other yachts, because every working channel is jammed with people chatting about sewing circles, barbecues and quiz nights. Grrrr.
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Indeed - and it is completely unnecessary - there are licence free PMR446 radios available for a few tens of pounds which you can use for anything.
 
Careful chaps don't give nos a hard time or he will flounce off again vowing never to return ...... Like he did last time .
 
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