Pirate Lady
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My handheld picks up the local traffic from home. We are just a quarter of a mile from Lake Michigan. We used to live on Spring Lake so just a 100 feet from boat traffic. Other than the weather channel there is not much worth listening to. Occasionally there is Coast Guard traffic that its interesting but not often. VHF has gotten to be a little like the CB channels as time goes by. Traffic used to be professional, but now, not so much.
OMG sbw, so true, back in the 90's you couldnt get on a clear channel to hail a buddy. i got out of boating for about 10 years while focusing on kids, got back in this year and cant believe how dead the vhf is. nobody on even on weekends. wondered why i bothered getting one, its all cell phones now. one saturday morn in july i left my cell phone in car, no clock on boat, so i got on ch 9 or 15 and asked for a time check, it was about 5 minutes before anyone got back to me. boating just aint the same any more.