Cell phone charges while in Canada
Hi, This is my first post. We are interested in getting a Class B van in a year or so. We have reserved a van of this type in Canada for a week in September. We're planning to stay in Canada for...
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Artum Snowbird wrote:
If you are near the ocean, you should have a marine VHF perhaps. In an emergency, they are quite good and they also have the weather channels on them. We use ours almost everywhere we go to listen to the weather channels.
I'd be careful about transmitting on a VHF marine radio when on land. Technically you are required to be within 50 feet of the high tide line when on shore to do so. And we have an Industry Canada inspector here on Vancouver Island who is a bit of a hard-nose and loves nothing more than to fine you for even having a radio with "non-approved" frequencies in it, even if you only listen to them! One thing you could do, IF possible, is to remove the microphone and hide it. That will make the radio receive only (caveat: on most newer VHF radios that are waterproof the mic is permanently attached).
Now, that being said, I have worked loggers in the bush who've had truck problems, or wanted someone to know they were ok. While that was really a no-no, I had no problem with it, since the loggers had probably already tried their own channels with no response, were out of range of the repeaters, or the repeaters were off the air. And the situations were a bit unusual anyway.
Cheers!
Mike
