Thread: Pickwick Lake
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Old 12-30-2018, 07:35 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Island Bound View Post
My wife and I spent three summers on Kentucky Lake and have traversed Pickwick Lake numerous times coming and going with side trips to Florence, AL. Not mentioned yet on the thread is the towboat traffic. While your cellphone will work for the locks (somewhat cumbersome) and vessel emergency calls, it will not let you talk with the tows. In the spring of 2017 we were approaching Pickwick Dam from Florence and there was all kinds of VHF radio traffic (USCG and others) because of a small outboard boat with two aboard that had gone over the falls. Their bodies were recovered several miles downstream later that same day. I can assure you that Channel 16 is monitored.
I would assume that someone would be tasked with monitoring 16. Especially with commercial traffic transiting.
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