Pleasure boats which have their radios on must monitor 16. No problem keeping them off if you wish to risk your safety and that of others.
USCG "Inspected Vessels" must monitor 16. U.S. commercial vessels must monitor both 13 and 16 - usually with two different radios. Once you are at sea, or cruising on a weekday, the airwaves become near silent and you can get early warning of the presence commercial shipping by just monitoring channel 13. 16 lets you help others. Ron Rogers _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
