VHF which channel?

[johnny roger]

Hi,
being new to the world of VHF, what channel would the average weekend boaty be sitting on? i know channel 16 is mostly monitord for distress calls etc, and that you are not allowed to broadcast 3 mins past the hour and 3 mins past the half hour.
any advise would be appreciated. thanks.

[Simmo2]

Did the radio course you sat to operate the radio not tell you this?

[Angla]

The Radio course is great but having a printed table would be good too. You could print the 5 pages from this site and laminate them like I have and keep them aboard the boat as a ready reference along with the VHF Handbook You must keep on the vessel

http://www.leisure-marine.com.au/Use...rineradios.asp

Hope this helps

Chris

[mik01]

i monitor 73 & 81.
plus 16 of course. (have tri watch).

check out the pinned thread at the top which has forum members details including vhf channels monitored.

[johnny roger]

thanks for all that guys. as it happens simmo, i dont have a VHF yet, and so i havn't done the course yet. i was just mearly gathering information. info like doing a VHF course which i had no idea that i had to do.
so thanks again guys.

[johnny roger]

thanks angla, much appreciated.

[kitty_cat]

mate from what is see you are from fnq you need to check your repeater stations usually 81 or 82 mostly the later the further north you go double check though i dont fish any further than agnes as yet (give your local vmr a call they will let you know)
wayne

[QF3 MROCP]

Hi,
being new to the world of VHF, what channel would the average weekend boaty be sitting on? i know channel 16 is mostly monitord for distress calls etc, and that you are not allowed to broadcast 3 mins past the hour and 3 mins past the half hour.
any advise would be appreciated. thanks.

Johnny, check out the MSQ web site:

http://www.msq.qld.gov.au/Home/Safet...adio_contacts/

and:

http://www.amc.edu.au/omc/handbook

plenty of good info at these two sites.

Peter

[johnny roger]

Johnny, check out the MSQ web site:

http://www.msq.qld.gov.au/Home/Safet...adio_contacts/

and:

http://www.amc.edu.au/omc/handbook

plenty of good info at these two sites.

Peter

thanks for that mate. the sites are pretty good.
John

[ozscott]

Mate you are required by law (and common sense) if you have a VHF set to monitor Ch16 - you can sit on it or as most people do use tri watch or I sometimes use a multi channel watch of about 5-6 channels where the set has 16 as the priority channel, so if there is traffic on that it goes to 16 for that transmission even if other channels are transmitting.

Cheers