Denmark is much the same as Australia. You much register a personal license before using any vhf on the maritime frquencies and you must register a boats name to posess a maritime vhf-transmitter. (small boats are not registered themselves). The transmitter then receives a callsign so that you have a callsign and a boats name for your operations. The advantage is that your callsign is in the authorities database so that IF you use it e.g. for SAR they will know who you are and where you are based. (something like "this is JONATHAN, JONATHAN, Xray Papa Delta four seven tree seven"). You may equally well use your boatname alone but in Denmark there are several JONATHANs. In Denmark the databaseregister has a field for comments and in my case they know the type of transmitter as portable and that it may be used from boats with different names. It's up to you to make the best of it. Jens Viggo Moesmand Denmark *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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