YOU AND THE VHF

[Proheat]

Good Thread Box!!!
The radio BS is all over the place. How many people need radio checks......GEEZ!!! You should hear it on the Chesapeake Bay..............there are all these Blow Boats that do nothing but talk on the VHF and talk about nothing but where they are meeting for dinner or where they are mooring tonight...etc.

ROGER!!!!!..........OVER AND OUT!!!!

[WAHOONBOX]

Originally Posted by Randy Stinchcomb

Ahhh, Hell and I half expected an instructional video on proper VHF radio etiquette 'Box

YOU MEAN FLAGRANT VIDEO ADVERTISING SUCH AS THIS :

[Gringo]

Maybe there should be a requirement for a new boat operator to just be able to buy the transceiver and antenna, and have to wait six months before they will sell him a microphone to go with it.
Or if that won't work, a radio that only works on emergency 9 and 16 for the first six months, and then he can pick up a chip that lets him use the other channels.

We go all day sometimes down here without hearing much at all on the radio. That's pretty good, considering the FCC and USCG has no presence or authority here. People just seem to tend to call on 16 and then go to a clear channel.

[capt. jakeg]

Funny that you mentioned the predator and swashbuckler. I said something to him the other day along the lines of "will someone please talk to the swashbuckler on the radio just because I am tired of hearing the word swashbuckler on the radio every 30 seconds". Evidently the guy heard me but still thought he would annoy us all by asking the same question just leaving his boat name out of it. Instead of saying predator comeback this is swashbuckler channel 18 every 30 seconds, we heard a tricky new predator come back to channel 18 every 30 seconds. I guess when the fishing is slow people get bored.
There was a guy on there yesterday that told some very un-radio-P.C. correct jokes about all sorts of things including carolinians for about a half hour straight yesterday. Also yesterday we had lost a compression valve in the steering and trying to raise the boat that was bringing us the part on channel 18 as a bad storm was coming. We tried to raise him two or three times and didnt get him and some other clown who knew our situation comes back and walks over us and starts talking about how its a bad time for the radio to go out and there is some bad weather coming and blah blah blah... No kidding STFU.
We were right behind Brian when he hooked his double yesterday and congrats and yes we saw that guy, and yes he was an idiot. We have decided that after a situation arises and there is no reaction from them on the radio, we are gonna start shooting flares at them.

[stew]

I see the Cape Cod chicken in the morning moved to NC. Maybe someone will find him and choke the chicken%$&T out of him. It was funny once, but after that it was just annoying. Samething happend up here, Box. The charterboat fleet was always on CH.68 in Cape Cod Bay but they moved over to an expanded channel years ago. It is too bad. Capt. Eric

[Randy Stinchcomb]

Originally Posted by WAHOONBOX

YOU MEAN FLAGRANT VIDEO ADVERTISING SUCH AS THIS :

LMAO yeah, just like 'dat Bastard's

[Sterling]

Box,
I started the day all mellowed out for the new year and you've got me fired up a bit now. Or maybe it's the coffee.

Another consideration. Up here there are a percentage of boaters who decide they need to launch their own radio show on a primary channel. Either they are calling the same boat 10 times with no response or they are putting on some act about "bailing" fish every week. It's annoying yes, BUT THE REAL PROBLEM WITH THESE MORONS IS that we do just what we have the right to...turn our radios off. Now instead of scanning 16, and several other channels, people shut off their radios. So, some guy who needs help on 16 is not going to get it because the "Sea Squirrel" or whatever his name is, is doing his show on 68 and has a lot of radios scanned to 68 or off.

Yes there are channels that avoid this. But if the guy you need help from is scanning 68 & 16, and is stuck on 68 with no priority over-ride for 16, the chatter goes from disrespectful, annoying and stupid, to life threatening.

I don't have a problem with people connecting, or some small talk, or even a good joke, but when it gets excessive or is just an act for personal attention, it's no good.

[TROPHY SPORTFISHING]

Marty you are exactly right i like to keep communications with the charter fleet they are a good source of info and every once in a while you might be able to contribute something to them that will help them out on a slow day. Always good to have those contacts but you're right they ain't on 18 no more. People just don't show the respect they used to for the commercial and charter guys there is a wealth of knowledge to be learned but people don't pay attention.

[RobB]

We have a guy off manasquan,nj with a monkey screeching and does it about 25 times a day it drives u insane. it is funny the first time in the begining of the year but not everyday.

[birdhunter]

Damn, you got me scared to turn on my VFH now! And for the record that Grady that Brian was calling was not me. Matter of fact it scared the hell out of me, I knew there was no one around me at the time but we all started scanning around to make sure. So unless he had out 7 miles of line I think we were in the clear.