VHF Afloat
Published on 14. November 2008
80 pages
978-1-912177-41-7 (ISBN)
Description
VHF Afloat explains how to use your VHF DSC radio. It covers licensing the equipment and gaining the operator certificate, and then takes you through each type of call. Each procedure is clearly illustrated using the yacht Sierra, to show how the radio is used on a passage to communicate with marinas, other vessels and the Coastguard, including how a MAYDAY is managed by the rescue services. Use VHF Afloat to help pass the assessment, and then keep it on board when you need to make a call - the facts will be right at your fingertips.
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Sara Hopkinson
VHF Afloat
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11/2008
3rd Edition
Wiley
€14.84
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Sara Hopkinson is an experienced sailor, and a Yachtmaster Instructor and Examiner. She lives at Pin Mill in Suffolk where she runs an RYA Training Centre which specialises in navigation, radio, radar and first aid courses. She has also been a Coastguard Rescue Officer for many years and is now the Deputy Station Officer of HM Coastguard, Holbrook. She is also author of Fernhurst Books' Navigation: A Newcomer's Guide and VHF Companion.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword VHF is Wonderful ...VHF-DSC is better!
- 1 Licences and certificates
- 2 Types of VHF set
- 3 What is the range of the set?
- 4 How to begin using a VHF radiotelephone
- 5 The DSC Controller
- 6 Which channel do I use?
- 7 What do I say? ...Prowords
- 8 Ship-to-Ship routine communications
- 9 Routine communications with HM Coastguard
- 10 Routine communications with marinas, ports and harbours
- 11 On passage with yacht Sierra
- 12 Distress procedures and Coastguard acknowledgement
- 13 What do I do if I hear a Mayday?
- 14 The Mayday Relay...'Urgency Alert'
- 15 Pan Pan... 'Urgency Alert'
- 16 Securite .'Safety Alert'
- 17 SIERRA ...the return! An eventful homeward passage
- 18 EPIRBs
- 19 SARTs
- 20 NAVTEX
- 21 Radio channels
- 22 Glossary
- Questions
- Answers
- Useful Addresses
- Mayday Procedure Card
