Hi Dave, Yep, the idea behind the silence, or monitoring, minutes after the half hour and hour is for ALL stations to listen out for faint distress signals which may be trying to penetrate through all the normal traffic. International procedure. *************************************************************************** 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 - 18:41:35 PDT
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