What’s with these security calls from the coast guard in Spanish??I thought the international language for the industry was English. I thought English was the only language that was supposed to be spoken on channel 16.
After sitting in the fairway anchorage for 48 hours. I have heard more security calls in Spanish on channel 16. Then I have heard in English.
I heard Vietnamese more than English the other day.
Welcome to the New World Order 
Jones act will be the Jose Act
Just hope they let you be a janitor when it’s all said and done!
[QUOTE=rigdvr;80478]Welcome to the New World Order Jones act will be the Jose Act[/QUOTE]
To paraphrase B. Traven’s original line:
Jones Act? We don’t need no stinking Jones Act you god-damned cabrón and chinga tu madre!
This is depressing!
Yeah, it sounded like they were holding the mic next a speaker playing recorded track.
While not disagreeing with you, I supposed I would rather people actually understand what was in a security call.
[QUOTE=riverrat;80457]What’s with these security calls from the coast guard in Spanish??I thought the international language for the industry was English. I thought English was the only language that was supposed to be spoken on channel 16.
After sitting in the fairway anchorage for 48 hours. I have heard more security calls in Spanish on channel 16. Then I have heard in English.[/QUOTE]
Basic Spanish is becoming an essential seafaring skill.
No spanish transmission here in California but I haven’t figured out why the local CG station interrupts ch 16 a few times each day with the following transmission:
“Coast Guard Morro Bay request switch to primary.”
“Switching to primary”
But they don’t switch to another channel, rather they wait a few seconds and repeat the same transmission over-and-over.
Anyone have a clue what’s going on here?
Primary is their secured private frequency. I believe now it is digital hopping so you can’t even listen in on a scanner. Their primary channels used to be (years ago) 21 and 81,82,83. But they lost the ability when the radio freq system was changed about 25 yrs ago. Now any one can transmit on those. So they went to digitally scrambled. Just like the ‘real’ military. (Sorry Senior Chief!)
Basic spanish and then some. Language barriers should not exist, there was a 16 year old kid who knew 23 different languages. It cant be to hard learn what you need.
[QUOTE=cappy208;81171]Primary is their secured private frequency. I believe now it is digital hopping so you can’t even listen in on a scanner. Their primary channels used to be (years ago) 21 and 81,82,83. But they lost the ability when the radio freq system was changed about 25 yrs ago. Now any one can transmit on those. So they went to digitally scrambled. Just like the ‘real’ military. (Sorry Senior Chief!)[/QUOTE]
The CG uses many frequencies in the VHF and UHF LMR band also. http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/United_States_Coast_Guard#VHF_Land_Mobile_.5BLMR.5D_Channels