"Peter Rattenbury" <ratten_at_uow.edu.au> > And increasingly I hear routine calls transmitted during the official > silence > periods after the hour and half hour.... Did not know that was a recognized procedure for VHF. In fact, we have used five minutes before the hour or five minutes after the hour as times to contact other paddlers, to avoid cluttering the airwaves with needless hails when the other party is not listening. -- 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 Tue Apr 19 2005 - 18:19:36 PDT
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