The Archers on CH16

[janeK]

Fabulous sailing back from Poole yesterday was marred by the broadcasting of the Archers on Ch16. Someone had obviously knocked/left their transmission switch on for all the Solent to hear.

Despite repeated requests by the Solent coastguard for boats to check their radios the entire programme was heard

Is this a case of 'it can't be me' therefore I'm not going to check (my radio)syndrome?

How peaceful it was from 0600-0900 hrs before the above, despite 2 incidents of boats taking on water - Swansea and Nab tower areas - then it starts - asking the coast guard for radio checks despite them (CG) requesting radio checks be done through marinas.

Don't people listen anymore?

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[Twister_Ken]

I\'d prefer \"I\'m sorry I haven\'t a clue\"

Is this a case of 'it can't be me' therefore I'm not going to check (my radio)syndrome?

Err, no. It's a case of if i'm broadcasting, my set doesn't receive. Always struck me as especially useless for the CG to make those appeals, as the one person who won't hear them is the offender.

2 incidents of boats taking on water - Swansea and Nab tower areas

Reception must have been good!


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[JonBrooks]

"Don't people listen anymore?"

Only to the Archers it would seem!! :0))))


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[Eccles]

Re: I\'d prefer \"I\'m sorry I haven\'t a clue\"

Had a situation last summer where our local radio station was broadcasting permanently. Could hear the operator shuffling round and coughing etc.
Went on for 10 minutes until you heard his phone ring.

Operator "Hello XXXXX Radio, oh is it, thanks"
Then the transmission ended!


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[steve_cronin]

I cannot believe.....

...that this is not some pratt who thinks it hilarious or some horrid kid frustrated by being brought to the boat for yet another grown-ups "fun" weekend..

Just try to trap the transmit key in the TX position. It is virtually impossible, the shape of most fist mikes just lets them slip out of any restricted space they can get into.

Steve Cronin



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[StugeronSteve]

Re: I\'d prefer \"I\'m sorry I haven\'t a clue\"

We often hear Swansea CG whilst out in the W. Solent.

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[StugeronSteve]

Probably the new interactive Archers designd to fill the silence caused by the absense of radio checks. Just key your mike and join in with the tale of everyday country sailing folk.

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[AndrewB]

Compare Dover on Ch 74

Ch 16 in the Solent any summer weekend is shambolic because it is so badly regulated. Maybe it has become ungovernable.

But don't blame it all on yachtsmen. I was struck by contrast on Sunday listening to the highly disciplined use of Ch 74 by yachts and ferries using Dover Harbour. All day long the calls were absolutely non-stop, as in the Solent, yet conducted with tight discipline by all concerned to ensure the safe transit of many hundreds of harbour movements. Yachtsmen using the channel for the wrong purpose, or making mistakes in radio procedure, received immediate but polite correction from Port Control. Ch 16 in the Dover Straight was also busy, but again carefully managed by the two CG's involved (Dover and Griz Nez) to ensure proper usage. These are examples of how it should be done.

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[tome]

Re: Compare Dover on Ch 74

If you listen to Soton VTS ch 12 or Portsmouth QHM ch 11 you'll hear the same disciplined radio traffic.

No superfluous chat, and all important information repeated back in crisp tones.

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[steve_cronin]

Maybe, but....

does that stop some brain dead moron from jamming a channel just for fun?

It would only take one to put your "disciplined and well regulated" scenario completely out of action.

Steve Cronin



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[jimbouy]

Re: I cannot believe.....

I have to agree, i heard the trans. and the calls to turn it off. But i got the distinct felling it was some idiot "having a laff". Don't ask me why .... but in my old CB days it was common place.

And as has been said.... how do you do it by accident.

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[Chris_Robb]

Re: I\'d prefer \"I\'m sorry I haven\'t a clue\"

A few years back the Beeb had to interupt a radio play to request that someone was transmitting on C16! There was a mayday in progress at the time. I was on the M1.

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[LadyInBed]

Hope they turned "Go for it" off.

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[milltech]

Re: Nice to know you\'ve arrived too

I was quite unaccountably tickled and still am by the big sign underneath the port control goldfish bowl on the Eastern breakwater saying "DOVER".

Who is it for? Illegals rowing over, French ferry captains on a first timer?


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[steve_cronin]

Go 4 it

Do you know anyone's children who are so boring as to actually listen to that drivel? The kids on it sound like boffin, sunday schooler "Young Musicians of the Year" I blame the parents!
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Yugh!

Steve Cronin

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[LadyInBed]

Re: Go 4 it

Probably Beeb employees kids.

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[steve_cronin]

Re: Go 4 it

Do shirt lifters have kids?

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[Chris_Rayner]

Re: Go 4 it

I think it involves a turkey baster and a tame lesbian.

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[Heckler]

and i thought i was the only politically incorrect

one here!
stu

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[brianrunyard]

As ch16 is Simplex, he wouldn't hear the Coastguard while his set was in Transmit mode.
The only way to contact him would have been to interupt The Archers.

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