nafi
08-16-2006, 01:49 AM
I was wondering if any of the forum members are interested in radio communications.
I recently started sailing and came face to face with the theory requirements for obtaining a restricted radiotelephone operators license. (It is like learning PHP right from the start.)
I am currently a crew member on the 30ft Van De Stadt leisure sail-yacht called "Clueless". (Apt name, don't you think?) The owner only recently acquired the vessel, and the skipper (although licensed) has puttered around an old single outboard motorboat for the past ten years.
It is therefore (I feel) imperative for me to get as pro-efficient in all aspects of operating the ships components. And there is a lot to learn.
The radio and electronics is probably the area of the boat operations which needs most urgent attention. (had to rewire a CD-player the other two did a week or so ago) But the radio equipment on the yacht is very new to me.
That said, the radio looks as if it used to be installed in Noah's Ark. So, it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out, should it?
I just have a feeling that technological advances in the field of radio telephony might make my job as radio operator a whole lot easier. Or at least allow the WHOLE crew to master this new old technology.
When I was at school, you were not a proper geek if you did not at least once cancel a date with a chick, in order to log a call to some Russian space craft that would be orbiting over South Africa during the spring dance. Unfortunately, I was a slow starter and did not receive my geek blazer until after the radio telephony operating bug gave way to hacking BASIC, DOS and Pascal.
Any hard-line radio buffs around here?
PAN-PAN PAN-PAN PAN-PAN
HELLO ALL STATIONS HELLO ALL STATIONS HELLO ALL STATIONS
THIS IS CLUELESS CLUELESS CLUELESS
NEED ASSISTANCE WITH A NEW MARINE RADIO
REQUIRE INFORMATION IMMEDIATELY
OVER
I recently started sailing and came face to face with the theory requirements for obtaining a restricted radiotelephone operators license. (It is like learning PHP right from the start.)
I am currently a crew member on the 30ft Van De Stadt leisure sail-yacht called "Clueless". (Apt name, don't you think?) The owner only recently acquired the vessel, and the skipper (although licensed) has puttered around an old single outboard motorboat for the past ten years.
It is therefore (I feel) imperative for me to get as pro-efficient in all aspects of operating the ships components. And there is a lot to learn.
The radio and electronics is probably the area of the boat operations which needs most urgent attention. (had to rewire a CD-player the other two did a week or so ago) But the radio equipment on the yacht is very new to me.
That said, the radio looks as if it used to be installed in Noah's Ark. So, it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out, should it?
I just have a feeling that technological advances in the field of radio telephony might make my job as radio operator a whole lot easier. Or at least allow the WHOLE crew to master this new old technology.
When I was at school, you were not a proper geek if you did not at least once cancel a date with a chick, in order to log a call to some Russian space craft that would be orbiting over South Africa during the spring dance. Unfortunately, I was a slow starter and did not receive my geek blazer until after the radio telephony operating bug gave way to hacking BASIC, DOS and Pascal.
Any hard-line radio buffs around here?
PAN-PAN PAN-PAN PAN-PAN
HELLO ALL STATIONS HELLO ALL STATIONS HELLO ALL STATIONS
THIS IS CLUELESS CLUELESS CLUELESS
NEED ASSISTANCE WITH A NEW MARINE RADIO
REQUIRE INFORMATION IMMEDIATELY
OVER