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- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!porthos!prefect!mgsail
- From: mgsail@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (goldstein,marvin)
- Subject: Re: Radio Checks, was Coast Guard Boating
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 15:05:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.150504.1403@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- References: <1992Dec18.203720.20661@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <1gu1psINN7ht@male.EBay.Sun.COM>
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- In article <1gu1psINN7ht@male.EBay.Sun.COM> jeffh@nonsuch.EBay.Sun.COM writes:
- >In article 20661@porthos.cc.bellcore.com, mgsail@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (goldstein,marvin) writes:
- >>
- >> Since 9 is now a hailing channel in most (all?) of the country, doing anything
- >> more than asking the VOICE to pick/switch to another channel is illegal. Why
- >> people don't ask for checks on working channels is beyond me.
- >>
- >
- >
- >My thought is, saying "loud and clear at (location)" is just as quick, and used
- >a whole lot less overall radio time than "pick a channel" or "go to channel xx"
- >and reestablishing contact on that channel. For practical purposes, once someone
- >answers your call for a radio check, 99% of the reason for the check is completed -
- >you know your transmitter is working.
- >
- >Jeff Huntington
- >
- >
-
- The fact is that using the hailing channels for a radio is illegal no matter
- how short the call is. Further, the checks I hear don't usually end with
- "loud and clear at ----." Isn't this just one more instance of people
- picking and choosing what rules and laws they will obey?
-
- Marv Goldstein
-