suggestion for getting reply for "radio check"

[woodster]

PS: @woodster next time you plan a sail on a weekend, we might trying a FM link up, for grins. Until you improve your shower scheduling, I think I will keep it to about 90 miles.

just read this.....was out for a little while yesterday afternoon...had i known i would have hailed you or as they say in OZ knocked you up .......i was just out practicing my dock rash skills .......oh and despite being told i had to wait another week to shower i did it anyway...... guess you could say i payed it forward....

 

[Kermit]

Same here in Mqt.
Recently downstate, I was hailing marinas on 16, but the local dockside experts informed me that 16 was only to be used as an emergency channel....plz hail on 9. Sigh.......

I guess Lake Murray isn't totally 100% up to speed. One of the marinas has on their website that they monitor Ch. 16 for their gas dock. The Coast Guard station is literally right around the corner.

 

[JamesG161]

Same here in Mqt.
Recently downstate, I was hailing marinas on 16, but the local dockside experts informed me that 16 was only to be used as an emergency channel....plz hail on 9. Sigh.......

Here is the most concise rules on Marine FM Channel 16
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_16_VHF

Hailing is allowed, but 16 should be cleared for emergency as soon as practical by switching to another working channel.

My radio was always "checked by response" by the CSX Railroad Swing bridge tender, hailed for bridge opening, on FM 16 for years. A new marina was recently opened on the inland side of the RR bridge. The 16 traffic increased so much, the USCG requested CSX to switch to FM 13 and MONITOR BOTH 16 & 13.

As a side note on the above link, I looked up the term pan-pan use for emergency radio break by USCG. That is French, but in Spanish means "Bread-Bread"
I would guess the following emergency breaks would work too...
1) Mayday Mayday
2) OMG I need help
3) I am about to die.
4) Help!
5) We are sinking

Jim...

PS: Remember to listen before Hailing on 16. Three hails without response usually means they are not listening.