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Originally Posted by kulas44
These are the big boys, they normally monitor the radio very well, but sometimes they dont. Ships never respond, but they pay particular attention to horn signals.
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Therein lies the advantage of AIS. When calling a ship by name on channel 16, I'm 100% at getting a response. That includes 2 ships transiting the Panama City channel when I was just there.
Channel 16 is recorded by the Coast Guard. I have a feeling they know that.