Good morning,
Yesterday 17/7 some vessel was calling up port, but port were not responding. I was thinking it was because they were not using CTCSS tones they were not being received, though my decoder didn't find any tones on any transmissions. Does anyone know if they use tones at all? My set has issues sometimes with returning nil results when there is infact a result (tone).
On that note, does anyone on here also tune to marine frequencies?
Ta.
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156.6 - channel 12 would be Port Ops, and 156.65 - channel 13 would be local navigation.
I am surprised you don't hear much on 156.8 - channel 16 distress, and 156.375 - channel 67 - alternate distress. Coast Radio Melbourne would most likely use these.
You may need to contact your local Volunteer Sea Rescue Group (or Volunteer Coasat Guard they call it there) for their working channels on 27 MHz and VHF.
Similar to here, they may use channel 9 for Water Police, 73 for Rescue Groups, 6 for SAR Aircraft contact, 77 and 72 for chit chat, and handful of others for repeaters.
I am surprised you don't hear much on 156.8 - channel 16 distress, and 156.375 - channel 67 - alternate distress. Coast Radio Melbourne would most likely use these.
You may need to contact your local Volunteer Sea Rescue Group (or Volunteer Coasat Guard they call it there) for their working channels on 27 MHz and VHF.
Similar to here, they may use channel 9 for Water Police, 73 for Rescue Groups, 6 for SAR Aircraft contact, 77 and 72 for chit chat, and handful of others for repeaters.
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There is a lot more info here, as well as the Maritime UHF freqs that you can listen to if you are close to port. Worth reading if you need to sit your MROCP VHF only or VHF and HF..
http://www.amc.edu.au/omc/handbook
http://www.amc.edu.au/omc/handbook