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VHF Radio Checks – who should you call?

VHF Radio Checks – who should you call?

host 25/07/2018 0 Comments

The Cruising Association’s RATS (Regulations and Technical Services) Committee has been in discussion with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) about the use of calls to HMCG on Channel 16 requesting radio checks. RATS has anecdotal evidence of a proliferation of such requests and that these seemed to have spread from the Solent to other…

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