WhiteRabbit" <whiterabbit_0117_at_charter.net> wrote: > Are the licenses international? Is a US license good in Mexico and Canada? IIRC, if you have the two licenses from the US, there is reciprocity while operating your own private vessel in Canadian waters. Don't know about Mexico. Very good idea to get some decent training on use of VHF. The marine bands here are pretty clean and free of garbage, but I understand in urban areas of too many boaters, even 16 is severely abused. The required training in Canada is pretty good, I understand. The alternative in the US is to carefully listen and learn from professional mariners. And, there were VHF usage protocols, to at least lay out the rules, with all the VHF's I have bought the last couple years. I agree mandatory training before use would be good. The FCC bogarted on that when they relaxed licensure rules for US pleasure boaters, some 8 years ago. Michael Daly's comments about large fines for operating a marine VHF in Canadian waters without proper licensure describe what might happen. That hammer is there over the heads of folks who abuse the VHF channels. The message from here is: licensed or not, do not abuse them. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Apr 18 2005 - 17:53:10 PDT
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