Marine Radio advice
Re: Marine Radio advice
Anyone knows what does the getting the license involve? Attend a course? How many days? Cost? Expiry date? And is it illegal to install vhf without getting license?
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Re: Marine Radio advice
if you do the online course they reckon 4 hours at your own pace, then you just go in somewhere and sit a short exam. All up cost is around $180 or so I thinksturgeon wrote:Anyone knows what does the getting the license involve? Attend a course? How many days? Cost? Expiry date? And is it illegal to install vhf without getting license?
http://www.marineradiolicence.com.au/MR ... seinfo.pdf
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Re: Marine Radio advice
You can have a radio and listen without a license, good for weather warnings etc, but cant transmit unless in emergencylaneends wrote:if you do the online course they reckon 4 hours at your own pace, then you just go in somewhere and sit a short exam. All up cost is around $180 or so I thinksturgeon wrote:Anyone knows what does the getting the license involve? Attend a course? How many days? Cost? Expiry date? And is it illegal to install vhf without getting license?
http://www.marineradiolicence.com.au/MR ... seinfo.pdf
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Re: Marine Radio advice
I have a vhf radio installed in my boat, so I'm suppose to have a license to use that? Literally never knew that... Don't use it anyway
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Re: Marine Radio advice
Correct, VHF is the only way to go now.cobby wrote:From a safety perspective VHF any day of the week. It's manned (channel 16 emergency) 24/7, covers a greater distance and doesn't have as much b******* chatter across all channels like 27mhz does (especially 72 and 96) that will mask a faint call. Only downside is requirement for a licence to transmit, that isn't hard to obtain