"Steve Lusardi" wrote in
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Thanks Larry, good research, but this now opens another pandora's box.
If you have a Ships Station license and your equipment is all IMO
approved equipment, even though your vessel size does not require
IMO/SOLAS compliance, will I now be subject to the periodic inspection
and recertification rules these compliances demand? My gut feeling is
yes. Steve


Don't think they'll have anything to do with pleasure craft inspection,
as a practical matter, not by law. Anything that requires WORK they'll
shy away from. My concern was only because boaters take way too casual
a view about radio LICENSING than is healthy, especially in this
paranoia over "homeland security". They think that just because they
don't have to have a license to operate a VHF FM or an automated radar,
that allows them to operate anything else the radio sales dream teams
have to offer, and that's simply not true.

The FCC regs seem quite clear on GMDSS/DSC operation. They have special
licenses AND TRAINING to use them that's required for their proper
operation, not just plug n play on S/V "Her Orgasm" at the whim of
Captain Clegg. I merely wanted to know from someone with FCC
connections what was proper to keep people from getting FCC and CG
nastygrams, which can be very unsettling, even for the rich, when they
start talking about $10,000/DAY!

Noone wants to inspect. But they DO want pleasure boats off these
commercial-in-mind systems. Everyone, of course, except the equipment
manufacturers, who would install one in every Volkswagen if they thought
they could sell it.



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Larry

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