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Wow.....unbelievable! I can't believe that someone would do that. It is like people who call 911 and do things like that and they end up having the Police respond running lights in sirens.
The other unmeasured part is that these operations, no matter what, put people's lives at risk. Machines can fail, they can crash, or other things can happen. What I mean by this is that the person who did this put lots of people's lives on the line for a joke! That is much worse than the thousands of dollars that they cost us.
The other unmeasured part is that these operations, no matter what, put people's lives at risk. Machines can fail, they can crash, or other things can happen. What I mean by this is that the person who did this put lots of people's lives on the line for a joke! That is much worse than the thousands of dollars that they cost us.
I heard about this story elsewhere but thanks for posting this link.
Unbelievable that it was a hoax.
It is precisely for situations like this that the CG will be pushing for all VHF units to at least have a GPS location embedded - like MMSI emergency calls.
I heard one choice interchange while monitoring ch. 16 on the Chesapeake last weekend near Annapolis: "You shouldn't be out on the water until you've read the rules of the road." I'm pretty sure that was not a hoax but a response to a close call.
Unbelievable that it was a hoax.
It is precisely for situations like this that the CG will be pushing for all VHF units to at least have a GPS location embedded - like MMSI emergency calls.
I heard one choice interchange while monitoring ch. 16 on the Chesapeake last weekend near Annapolis: "You shouldn't be out on the water until you've read the rules of the road." I'm pretty sure that was not a hoax but a response to a close call.
I wonder if the USCG could add the ability to get direction from two or more of its receiving stations to triangulate the location of a transmission.
But yes, idiots abound. Sunday while were out, CH 16 was not 100% useful cos some radio somewhere was locked in transmit. Most people could punch through, but it could have blocked any faint transmissions from a handheld or a capsized vessel...
The best (or worst) was the time last year when a couple of doofuses used marine band radios on CH 68 to align a security camera. Grrrr. :cussing:
I would have never thought that would be a problem... and then to find out it is a common and large problem just seems to defy common sense. If the problem is that large then it seems like putting some resources into stopping it would pay for itself... just from the fines alone. Make a few public examples of the idiots and things might get better.
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