Dave Kruger wrote: > I do not know if the Canadian marine regs on VHF watch have changed. It appears that the regs for Canada have not changed. It still remains that monitoring channel 16 is only mandatory for vessels that must carry marine VHF equipment. (Based on a check of Transport Canada, Industry Canada and Canadian Coast Guard web sites. TC was the relevant one.) It sounds like you should contact the governing agency (FCC? USCG?) and point out the difficulty in meeting this requirement for sea kayakers on longer trips. Mike *************************************************************************** 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 Nov 14 2006 - 11:22:20 PST
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