Carpediem44DB
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- Aug 18, 2015
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- Boat Info
- 2000 Carver 506
2006 44 DB Sedan Bridge
- Engines
- Volvo TAMD 74 P
We went on our club's last calendared cruise out this weekend up the Napa River. The weather was fantastic, mid seventies no wind and no smoke filled skies for the first time in several weeks. The trip was perfect until the cruise home. Our club monitors and communicates on channel 78a. Usually there is very little traffic so its a nice quiet ride. Today there were a few boats out fishing a ways down range because we only heard one side of the conversation but they were just chatting away as though they were on the phone! Every thing from a spouses health problems to who was bringing the coals for the BBQ. I finally got fed up with it and suggested they switch to using their damn cell phone to chat! I did not get a response and the chatter didn't slow either. I finally just turned the volume way down and hoped I did not miss an important call from one of our club cruisers. I spent many years flying privately and either on a boat or in a plane it was always understood that the VHF radio is not a telephone. It is to be used for essential communication only and one should be brief and concise. Am I out of line here? I don't remember reading a thread on radio edicate lately.
First world problem I know but still......
Carpe Diem
First world problem I know but still......
Carpe Diem
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