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Grab bag of facts and commentary about installing and using VHF radio on board. Contains excerpts from hard-to-find bulletin board and newsgroup postings, as well as links to useful sites and vendor pages.
[Bill Dietrich, USA]
Grab bag of facts and commentary about useful radio programs, radio nets, APRS, weather stations, and other good services and information on the air. Contains excerpts from hard-to-find bulletin board and newsgroup postings, as well as links to useful sites and vendor pages.
[Bill Dietrich, USA]
Unmoderated forum on marine electrical and electronic equipment. Good VHF advice and resources here, but you have to dig and you have to be selective.
[Usenet, USA]
A Flicka 20 owner′s thoughts on VHF (fixed and handheld), SSB, amateur (Ham) radio, cell phone, and other communications alternatives.
[The Comfortable Pocket Yacht, USA]
Grab bag of facts and commentary about identifying and eliminating VHF radio interference. Contains excerpts from hard-to-find bulletin board and newsgroup postings, as well as links to useful sites and vendor pages.
[Bill Dietrich, USA]
How to make VHF contact and move to another channel properly, conduct a distress call, make a radio check, use recreational channels, and how not to contact the coast guard. 3 pages with table of the phonetic alphabet.
[Sail Magazine, July 2001]
If you have a VHF radio on board, you are obligated to maintain a watch. Here are the rules.
[U.S. Coast Guard, USA]
What channels to use and what procedures to use when making a non-distress call on VHF radio.
[U.S. Coast Guard, USA]
A discussion board and photo gallery for cruising sailors and wannabes focused on sailing instruments and communications equipment. Autopilot, radar, sonar, chart plotters, satellite telephones, mobile telephones, internet, marine e-mail, VHF, HF, SSB, etc.
[Cruisers Forum, Buskerud, Norway]
An authoritative navigational resource for voyage planning and reference underway. Includes detailed sections on navigation, weather, safety, VHF and other communications, etc. Six editions cover the UK, N. America, and the Caribbean.
[Thomas Reed Publications, Inc., Boston, MA, UK]
[GDMSS equipment] remains blissfully silent until an important call is received . . . not every time Bay Screamer hails Thunderbolt to compare fishing spots.
Tim Hasson
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