Seastoke
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recently on our main cruise we were approaching the IOM and I called up pearl harbour ,pearl harbour this is ,instead of PEEL HARBOUR hay ho
Whan funny things have you said ie on the radio
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derekbland
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Hoblands
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A couple of weekends ago I couldn't work out why Bembridge harbour weren't responding to me on channel 80 until I realised that I'd knocked the CH16 button on the mic and was broadcasting to everyone except Bembridge!
BruceK
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Definitely a classic "Stokesea" that.
matthewriches
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Not anything I've done but the funny one is the old classic..... marina calling Master Bates lol.
Restoration man
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Ok not strictly what I've said on the radio ,but when I call a marina up and they don't answer I use my mobile phone and call them on that instead, if they answer. i keep saying "over" when I want them to speak, I forget I'm on the phone ?? Might have something to do with the fact that my vhf handset is like a conventional phone handset well that's my excuse,
Sneds
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Me to!
My classic is when in Penarth trying to call Portishead Marina on ch 80
Penarth Quays
Portishead Quays
Sometimes they answer whilst not noticing, either that or they are to nice to mention it
Over and Out
My classic is when in Penarth trying to call Portishead Marina on ch 80
Penarth Quays
Portishead Quays
Sometimes they answer whilst not noticing, either that or they are to nice to mention it
Over and Out
oceanfroggie
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derekbland
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Well at least you didn't say Toro Toro Toro
Think you meant Tora, Tora, Tora. Toro is a bull in Spanish, I think. Not sure the Japanese used Spanish at Pearl Harbour. If it had been the Spanish it would more likely be, manana, tiempo por la siesta
oceanfroggie
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Think you meant Tora, Tora, Tora. Toro is a bull in Spanish, I think. Not sure the Japanese used Spanish at Pearl Harbour. If it had been the Spanish it would more likely be, manana, tiempo por la siesta
すみません、私の間違いです
maverickofpoole
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A friend of mine used to have a boat he named "Shy Talk" Always embarrassing calling him 
Mr Googler
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derekbland
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Lol! google translate is bril or should I say, どういたしまして
MrB
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I cannot count the amount of times i messed up on the radio but in an aviation sense. I told the tower i was 2 miles north when i was actually 2 miles south heading north. I taxied onto the runway 9L at Sanford airport FLA and when cleared to takeoff told ATC "I'll just hang for a moment" (I hadn't set up the instruments properly at that point and was well flustered on a check ride" ....they came back " You hang out there all you want, I'll just shut the runway down for you while you have a picnic and make all the planes trying to land go into a holding pattern! Sanford was my home base and they gave me hell. Regardless of the tail number i was regarded as "limey want's to land" after that lol.
Piers
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Aviation radio? When I was flying for BOAC (yes, i really am that old), Australian R/T was always precise with regard to pronunciation. So we had fun when calling 'Perth control' as 'Birth control' - they never realised....
TRH
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Not with my marine hat on. But with my pilot's hat on. (Air traffic please give me your height and position,reply 5 6" and sitting up the front.)
oceanfroggie
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"Negative" to ATC ground from a small aircraft when directed to taxi right behind an Air France Concorde whose engines had been started (i.e. visual heat distortion visible) . . . . . after some initial annoyance expressed by the ground controller, the duty controller took over comms and apologised, told me to hold on the apron where I was, then about a minute later the Concords engines seemed to throttle up as the visual heat distortion increased and she turned 90 degrees (i.e. jet blast no longer across the section of apron I needed to cross). A french accent over the VHF said "**** Fox Mike is zat ok for you now?" To which GND replayed "**** Fox Mike cleared passed the Air France to stand 27". So I got Concorde moved! She took off a few mins later on the adjacent runway by chance as I was walking across the apron to ops. The sound that close was amazing.
She took off a few mins later on the adjacent runway by chance as I was walking across the apron to ops. The sound that close was amazing.
Seastoke
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I could of been a pilot then
MrB
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I'll bet you have weeks worth of stories flying with BOAC
:encouragement:Easily lol. IIRC there is a book out there i read 20 years ago that logs some ATC chat and it's hilarious. I will try and find it when i have a chance, coms doesn't always have to be "stiff upper lip". At the time i was the only English guy flying with Comair Aviation Academy (Delta flight school) and they gave me hell on the radio in a fun way. As said, i messed up many times.
Piers
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I'll bet you have weeks worth of stories flying with BOAC
Oh yes! Some couldn't be told here, though....
