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I use MMSI
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Calling with MMSI is supposed to be the modern way to call. However it is little used by sailors or by at least one captian I am friendly with who runs a large, high tech cruise ship
I have used it a few times to raise ships and once Bermuda Harbor Radio when I could not get their attention on channel 16
On most radios it is clumsy to enter the number, but OK once you have entered and saved a frequently used one.
Calling by MMSI works very well, since the recipient's radio screams or rings LOUDLY. It will get me in from the cockpit to our bleow-deck radio when the engine is running.
Messages In This Thread
- MMSI
- Have it programmed into the radio - never used it
- Junk!
- Is that why you have a web blog or site or whatever, Dan?
- Different altogether.
- Under your constraints broadcasting a Mayday with your position
- How far from home have you sailed without a flotilla for support Doug?
- How far from home have you sailed without a flotilla for support Doug?
- Under your constraints broadcasting a Mayday with your position
- Different altogether.
- We use it.
- Is that why you have a web blog or site or whatever, Dan?
- Hello Doug. Okay, I plead ignorance. Could some one explain what the heck MMSI is?
- Yes
- I use MMSI