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Old 11-29-2015, 03:01 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by Bay Pelican View Post
MMSI, we use this all the time as a security measure as the VHF radio is essentially our telephone at anchor. By using MMSI our cocktail hour/dinner plans are not broadcast over the entire anchorage and the few land based characters who use the radio broadcasts to select their targets.
As I understand DSC, the only part of your communications that is somewhat private is the hailing process. Once you start talking, you are on an open channel just like any other communications. So anyone listening to your working channel, or switching to it after picking it up on a scanner, will hear all about your dinner plans.
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