Radio Check

Moonshiners

Moonshiners

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Nice to see the bi-minute radio checks on CH16 in the Solent are back. Shame they've usually reached their destination and switched off before the CG has finised explaining - again that routine's and radio checks aren't on 16...

Summers Here... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
personally i usually call the marina im leaving (on 1 watt power only) on channel 80, AFTER asking in the office if they dont mind PRIOR to departure.
 
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Yes, the better option, but even then I say on the radio courses why not not speak to the marina when your leaving or for that matter your local harbour master? Or some other channel such as 6.8,72 or77 if going out with friends.
 
If I have to ask for a radio check, which is very rare. I at least try to make it interesting. Like, the do just ate the radio. Does it still work! I always get a good responce. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
In my defence, it was a very quiet wednesday afternoon, and it was the first (and so far only) time I had ever keyed the mike since I bought and installed the radio 18 months before..having got a 'loud and clear' in return, and thanking Mr CG very much, I have no intention of doing it again-it worked then, I'm pretty sure it will work next tme!
 
Yeah you are missing out - I once had Solent CG call me for a radio check!!

They broadcast the MSI on Channel 23, and it was hideously garbled from only 10 miles away. I phoned up and suggested they might have a transmission problem. Five minutes later they called me on the VHF to ask if I could hear them OK! It was fine then, but gone bad again. It's been like it for months, now.
 
I think you are all missing the point of a solent radio check.

The idea is to Broadcast to all your mates that you are out and about.

How many times have you finished your radio check on 16 and then had a call from a mate so you can move to ch77 and meet up .

A radio check is a vital part of the Solent Atmosphere.




Always try to include where you are going...

' solent CG ,Solent CG, this is DAKA heading for Yarmouth from Lymington, radio check please over and out'
 
but so many of these radio checks are some muffled nonsense, where the coastguard replies that its all garbled and broken up. I always wonder what the skipper does with this useful info. Tries not to sink, perhaps.
 
Out here, at the end of the Earth, the coast station volunteers would love to have some of your radio "chatter-boxes" to give them some-one to talk to!!!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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