VHF Presents From USofA

Re: Many older legal UK sets

Channel 80 is not either M or M2 it is International VHF Channel 80.

M= 157.850 MHz and M2 = 161.425 MHz are both simplex channels

Channel 80 is a duplex channel operating on 157.025 for the ship station and 161.625 for the coast station.

Mike

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Re: Thanks

for the info regarding the origins of Berk, I shall remember that one. I still say he was a right Berk though. Of course I know about the disease problem, it was more the concept of using Oak Shipping Crates, It take a beaurocrats mind to think of that. Conjures up pictures of french Polished Sheraton Crates to import a scrappy bit of Ally Extrusion.

Martin

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No - except perhaps to a lawyer, the main failing point is not that it is not legal on UK boats, . The main failing point is that they dont have the correct range of channels unless you can get them re-programmed.

Has anybody ever been caught for the dreadful sin of posession of a non govt approved radio? It would be interesting to know. From comments made by the RA guy on this forum, I suspect that you are less likely to get caught for this than for speeding, or other heinous offences like getting a vat free building job done.

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Re: VHF Presents From USofA and Ch80

Yes - we can all see that young Nigel can write, but whether he can read is now questionable /forums/images/icons/smile.gif.

John



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Re: Models and WT\'s

You have my unreserved appologies if I was responsible for shooting anything down! Since my activities were confined to a fairly remote part of Scotland I think its unlikely that there were any models within "firing range" but I can see that it must have been pretty annoying and expensive for legitimate users to have to put up with that kind of interference. So sorry! my excuse is that I was only a kid and didn't know the consequences!

Chris

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Re: Once upon a time

Blimey Ken, how big is your car? I worked out the amount 'allowed' duty free would take my VW Passat and two passengers close to the max load.

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See you next Tuesday

I remember that Welsh Speaker of the House of Commons had the microphones switched off while it was explained to him while Berk was unparliamentary.

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Re: Thanks

HWMO is indebted for the origin of berk too. But just who was Berkeley Hunt? I think we should be told.

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Long, long ago

It was a Morris Marina (one of the few not owned by MDL), and it was at the time when (I think) ten litres per person was the max allowed duty free. Now you can buy a pantechnicon-load and bring it in, as long as it was bought retail in the EU and is for your personal consumption.

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I have had for 10 years a US vhf

a Shakespeare which was about half the price of a comparable set in Europe.

It has all the US and all the International channels (including 80 = M1 and M2 under another no) even having ch 0.

As you can get DSC vhfs in the States for about $169 I see no point in buying in the UK - I for one am quite happy to do without the CE mark which was, in any case, developed from the US standard.

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Re: I have had for 10 years a US vhf

As pointed out before, channel M1 = ch 37, NOT 80, and is not available on many US originated sets that I've seen. Channel M2 does not correspond to any International or US channel, and will not appear under another number. Both channels might be added to a standard VHF set of course.

Ch 0 is reserved exclusively as a private channel for authorised search and rescue services and should not be fitted on any non-authorised vessel. Unlike the claptrap about CE marking, I think this should be treated with respect. The frequency, which is not widely publicised, is slightly away from the main marine VHF band.

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Re: Channel 0

Yes quite right.

Channel 0 (zero) is an ex Private Mobile Radio (land radio) frequency which does not appear in Maritime sets that the Radio Agency allocated for the exclusive operational use of HMCG many years ago. Access to it is ONLY allowed with written permission (which is required to be kept with the Ship radio licence for inspection) from the Head of Search and Rescue at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) this is applicable both to vessels and shore stations.

Mike

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Re: Channel 0

The frequency is published - it was in the first reference book I looked at - and if you wanted to listen in I think you would find that many scanners cover the frequency concerned.As they cover police frequencies.

Its certainly illegal to relay anything you hear, but I dont know whether it is illegal to listen as opposed to transmit - why you might want to I am less sure.

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Re: Channel 0

Am sure Mike will correct me if wrong (as he is the man from Ofcom/R/A)

you can NOT tune in to anything you are not licenced to.
This includes Police Fire Amblance, Local Taxi firm oh and MCA Ch 0.

Yes a scanner may cover it, NO you can't listen to it.

Passing to info on is one offence, just listening is another offence.

You can own a scanner that covers all BUT if you have stored in the memory anything your not licenced to use YOU ARE NICKED!

Hope that helps.

The section on the Ofcom/RA website re scanners is very clear.

Regards

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Re: Channel 0

So I was not to far off the mark then!

Makes a change for me!!

Regards

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