Solent CG Overspoke Mayday on C16

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Anyone else hear the automated weather message from Solent CG on Ch16 today that overspoke a Mayday?

Feels like they should listen on 16 for 30 seconds and cancel any automated routine transmissions as required.
 
Automated weather message? Is that announcing a maritime safety information broadcast?

Is it possible you could hear the mayday but the CG mast could not?

I would assume that regardless of mayday or not that the CG listen before transmitting - and if transmissions are automated there would be automated “listen before transmitting”.
 
ylop said:
Automated weather message? Is that announcing a maritime safety information broadcast?

Is it possible you could hear the mayday but the CG mast could not?

I would assume that regardless of mayday or not that the CG listen before transmitting - and if transmissions are automated there would be automated “listen before transmitting”.
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Yes, No, Me too. :)
 
So are the pre-announcements of MSIB in the Solent done automatically? Is this new? Are your broadcasts themselves (on the other channels) also automated?
 
ylop said:
So are the pre-announcements of MSIB in the Solent done automatically? Is this new? Are your broadcasts themselves (on the other channels) also automated?
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These are the kinds of questions I was hoping this thread would answer.
 
Mark-1 said:
These are the kinds of questions I was hoping this thread would answer.
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Well certainly last season Belfast and Stornaway were human beings: local accents, occasional stumble of words, even release the PTT mid word,
 
ylop said:
So are the pre-announcements of MSIB in the Solent done automatically? Is this new? Are your broadcasts themselves (on the other channels) also automated?
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I think it's relatively new but there are several CG stations, including Solent, using computer-generated voices for info' broadcasts. Normally quite easy to tell because the pronunciation of place names is often wrong along with odd nuances of pitch.

I don't like it at all. Perhaps I'm a dinosaur, but I much prefer knowing it's a human speaking to me - especially in bad weather. I find it strangely comforting.
 
I don't mind the weather forecast being a computer voice, just as long as it's a real human with a brain who answers my mayday.

"In the interest of saving money, we have outsourced Coastguard emergency services to India"... :eek: :eek: :eek:
 
Aviation met broadcasts have been automated for years and whilst airports have the option of having a local record the words needed so the computer can stitch them together for each broadcast, few seem to. But with swinging public service cost cutting we bemoan both a drop in service and taxation hikes.

But quite frankly I think we as humans prefer to communicate with humans (or dogs, I suppose and occasionally cats) I do wonder if this rush to technology actually goes against our instincts as human beings.
 
boomerangben said:
Aviation met broadcasts have been automated for years and whilst airports have the option of having a local record the words needed so the computer can stitch them together for each broadcast, few seem to. But with swinging public service cost cutting we bemoan both a drop in service and taxation hikes.

But quite frankly I think we as humans prefer to communicate with humans (or dogs, I suppose and occasionally cats) I do wonder if this rush to technology actually goes against our instincts as human beings.
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I'm not very worried about hearing an automated voice, but I am worried about what it implies about their capacity. If they can't spare someone to spend a few minutes reading a script on the radio, how are they going to surge to meet the needs of an emergency?
 
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