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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!news.Brown.EDU!brunix!jfh
  2. From: jfh@cs.brown.edu (John F. Hughes)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.boats
  4. Subject: Re: Radio Checks, was Coast Guard Boating
  5. Date: 21 Dec 1992 15:43:53 GMT
  6. Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
  7. Lines: 17
  8. Message-ID: <1h4onpINNrsk@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
  9. References: <1992Dec18.203720.20661@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <1gu1psINN7ht@male.EBay.Sun.COM> <1992Dec21.150504.1403@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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  12. In article <1992Dec21.150504.1403@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> mgsail@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (goldstein,marvin) writes:
  13. >In article <1gu1psINN7ht@male.EBay.Sun.COM> jeffh@nonsuch.EBay.Sun.COM writes:
  14. >
  15. >The fact is that using the hailing channels for a radio is illegal no matter 
  16. >how short the call is.  Further, the checks I hear don't usually end with
  17. >"loud and clear at ----."  Isn't this just one more instance of people 
  18. >picking and choosing what rules and laws they will obey?
  19.  
  20. I think that it *is* partly this. But I figure that it's something else, too:
  21. it's an attempt to fix the problem fast. If you *don't* answer the
  22. radio-check request, various people will go on trying it over and over and
  23. over again. So here's a question: what can you do to help educate people?
  24. You can answer: "Radio check, switch and answer 68," and then try to talk to
  25. them perhaps. But the odds are that once they know it worked, they won't
  26. actually make the switch. Sigh.
  27.  
  28. -John
  29.