using VHF - boat's name or radio call sign?

[Boathook]

It is more fundamental than that - the Mayday voice call has now been updated and it is now a requirement Mayday procedure to include both the MMSI number and call sign - twice!

Call sign is easy but a 9 digit number is another matter. I will leave that to the radio !!

 

[MM5AHO]

Is the boat name unique?
Can you be traced by it?

Is the callsign unique?
Can you be traced by it?

 

[nigelmercier]

But the current international standard format is given in the internataional Radio Regulations, 2008...

Doesn't appear to require number of persons on board?

 

[rob2]

What I find interesting is that there is a new format for the Mayday and I hadn't heard about it. There is a database of all VHF licence holders and I read every word of PBO every month - and I hadn't heard about it! What's the point of millions being spent on updating procedures if they don't tell anyone!

Rob.

 

[VicS]

What I find interesting is that there is a new format for the Mayday and I hadn't heard about it. There is a database of all VHF licence holders and I read every word of PBO every month - and I hadn't heard about it! What's the point of millions being spent on updating procedures if they don't tell anyone!

Rob.

The database you refer to is, I assume, the ITU MARS database.
ITYWF it's intended as a source of info for S&R. In fact only authorized users have access to all the data it contains. Hopefully those who need to know about it will know about.

The main change in the Mayday procedure is to include the MMSI number. I imagine it's something you learn if you do the DSC operators certificate. It's of no relevance to those of us with only non DSC radios

 

[cliff]

It is more fundamental than that - the Mayday voice call has now been updated and it is now a requirement Mayday procedure to include both the MMSI number and call sign - twice!

Please Mr Coastguard, I don't have a MMSI number, will you accept my MAYDAY anyway? - pretty please.......

 

[Searush]

(snip)

'Over and out' still makes me chuckle.

I heard it from a CG lady after the weather last week.

But yes, it did cause a chuckle. Somehow it seems so ingrained as a part of the daily vernacular. Bless.

Mind you I did have to explain it to the passengers, err sorry, family crew.

 

[John100156]

I heard it from a CG lady after the weather last week.

But yes, it did cause a chuckle. Somehow it seems so ingrained as a part of the daily vernacular. Bless.

Mind you I did have to explain it to the passengers, err sorry, family crew.

Immensely embarrassing, I use it all the time at the end of a call and every time I do, a split second after I have, I shudder and think what a plonker but by then it's too blooming late....... Must be an age thing ;-(

 

[Solitaire]

Please Mr Coastguard, I don't have a MMSI number, will you accept my MAYDAY anyway? - pretty please.......

If you have not got an MMSI you can't give it can you we have been down this road so many times before.