VHF: what gets on your nerves?

[Koeketiene]

[rant]

For me it's people saying: Over and out.
I know they use the phrase in Yank movies, but that does not make it right.

Over = talk to me
Out = done talking now, shut up

You can't say "talk to me and shut up"

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[bigwow]

A boat in our marina called “Clairvoyant” asking if they can have a lock out.
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[fluffc]

[ QUOTE ]
[rant]
Over = talk to me
Out = done talking now, shut up
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Correctly,

Over = "I've finished talking now, and <u>am expecting a response</u>"
Out - "I've finished talking now, <u>and am not expecting a response</u>"

But do truly agree with you - the term 'over and out' is truly self-contradictory!

 

[purplerobbie]

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A boat in our marina called “Clairvoyant” asking if they can have a lock out.
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The marina also call
"marina mobile is there anybody there"
Like it's a sayonce???

 

[Sixpence]

People gabbling over the VHF bugs me , always has done , we used to train the female ATC ground controllers how hard it was to understand them by taking them out on the airfield and playing back a recording of them giving vital movement instructions , totally incomprehensible . Speak slow and clear , don't gabble

 

[Kawasaki]

Trevera 25 ,Trevaera 25, Terevara 25,
kawasaki, kawaski, kawasaki,
Radio check over
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[FullCircle]

Well, it seems that the high cost of the Solent has made a lot of them migrate Eastwards.
Really daft quantity this year of Radio Checks and improper use. VHF Operators licence? Not worth a carrot.

Thames Coastguard telling someone to shut up on 16 and move to a working channel, happened again today.

 

[sailorman]

[Trevera 25 ,Trevaera 25, Terevara 25,
kawasaki, kawaski, kawasaki,
Radio check over]

@ 03.00hrs /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Koeketiene]

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VHF Operators licence? Not worth a carrot.

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Don't say that to sailorman - I have it on good authority (Mrs sailorman) that he hasn't got one. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[Koeketiene]

Trained navy comms - same thing: speak slowly and clearly and be brief.

Just thought of another one: people making up their own phonetic alphabet.

Spell boat name: Willie Arthur Nero Kilo Everett Roger

 

[akirk]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[rant]
Over = talk to me
Out = done talking now, shut up
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Correctly,

Over = "I've finished talking now, and <u>am expecting a response</u>"
Out - "I've finished talking now, <u>and am not expecting a response</u>"

But do truly agree with you - the term 'over and out' is truly self-contradictory!

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Not totally contradictory, when speaking to a member of the fairer sex:
out - I have finished and don't want a response, however better add:
over - knowing I will get a response anyway /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[sailorman]

alledgedly /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Sixpence]

[ QUOTE ]
Trained navy comms - same thing: speak slowly and clearly and be brief.

Just thought of another one: people making up their own phonetic alphabet.

Spell boat name: Willie Arthur Nero Kilo Everett Roger

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agreed on that one , the american way is bad enough but when they make up thier own it just confuses things even more

 

[keelbolt]

Solent Coastguard, this is Fanny Roger: There's a sailing boat capsised just off the end of the jetty.

Fanny Roger, this is Solent Coastguard: Can you give the exact position, please, and are you able to assist?

Silence. Apparently Fanny Roger has gone to the pub. And we will never know if the capsised sailing boat was 40 meters or 4 meters, or whether there was any REAL danger, which jetty it capsised off, or even if the sailing boat was righted by its own crew!!

 

[Twister_Ken]

DSC alarms.

 

[michael_w]

Wretched DSC alarms going off all the time. Can't turn the DSC facility off. Can't turn off the below decks speaker, when the cockpit one is working. RFI on Ch 16.

Oh, and Over and Out, peeps repeating things three times, when reception is good. Saying "Yacht" Saucy Sue etc.

 

[andyball]

Making up your own phonetic spelling on the fly is good sport when dealing with call centres or generally awkward ppl on the phone...

 

[Poignard]

People pretending to ask for radio checks when really they are saying is:

"Hi everybody we're here!"

 

[snowleopard]

[ QUOTE ]
Well, it seems that the high cost of the Solent has made a lot of them migrate Eastwards.
Really daft quantity this year of Radio Checks and improper use.

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Not just east, there was a constant stream of them to Brixham & Falmouth coastguards this weekend.

 

[LadyInBed]

Note to self - Must get round to turning VHF on and check that it hasn't stopped working since last time I turned it on to check that it was working /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif