Clyde CG closure and VHF coverage

[mm5aho]

>>>Out of interest, for all you forensic navigators, where was I?


Too close to the barometer to take an in-focus picture.!

[DaveS]

Do you think that the vast majority of their readership in the Solent and it's environs would be interested?

I wouldn't get my hopes up, personally.

You're probably right.

[sahona]

Too close to the barometer to take an in-focus picture.!

Yea, sorry folks, the camera is supposed to do all that, as I am not trained. I turned the knob to the tulip thing and pressed the button...

[Arghiro]

Too close to the barometer to take an in-focus picture.!

Yea, sorry folks, the camera is supposed to do all that, as I am not trained. I turned the knob to the tulip thing and pressed the button...

Was it a Dutch Barometer then?

[sahona]

No, French. Perhaps that should be a fleur-de-lys on the camera.
Bottom of the Inner Sound by the way. The barometric plummet took place in Fladday harbour

[Nick]

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The tragically uninformed woman who runs ForArgyll is shooting her mouth off again re. the Coastguard closures, now claiming that many of Clyde Coastguard's 'masts' are 'gone'

Perhaps a few of you could go on there and educate her?

LINK

For those new to this thread, other utterly stupid articles on the subject include:

The urgency in the Clyde Coastguard situation

A thought provoking incident scenario under the new minimal coastguard service

SNP Government to cede control of Scotland’s coasts to a call centre in Hampshire

[claymore]

I'm sure I have just read that very same post somewhere else, written by a Che Guevara look-alike

[Nick]

I'm sure I have just read that very same post somewhere else, written by a Che Guevara look-alike

How the mind plays tricks on the aged . . .

[sahona]

Well as this link advises, the aerials are all connected already and Clyde is to all intents and purposes - shut... Last Friday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-g ... t-20368736

[Gardenshed]

No masts have or will be moved:

key paragraph from the BBC article: "However, the work to complete the aerial transfers to MRCC Belfast and MRCC Stornoway is on schedule to complete on Friday of this week and the intention is to hand control of the aerials to Belfast and Stornoway on Friday evening."

We'll just get a "what about ye?" response instead of "how's it gaw'in" or a version of the "Outer Hebrideas Broadcasting Corporation"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqOQAl_MrcM

the attached is a tutorial from 98 fm in the South on how to understand the subtelties of the Norn Irn accent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mekofQWyJb0

Using the VHF will become so much more fun......

[ash]

We were on board over the weekend, 16 to 18 November 2012. The coastie sometimes forgot who he was, but he was 'Belfast and Clyde' when announcing the weather. The weather is now 5 regions, including Isle of Man, Lough Foyle to Carlingford Lough plus our usual 3. I could hear the announcement on 10, 23, 84, and 86 when berthed in Kip so no change there. I was listening for the weather at the usual Clyde times. I didn't try to listen at the Belfast time 1 hour earlier so don't know if that still exists. I 'think' that calls to the coastie from the Clyde area were answered as 'Clyde Coastguard' but I could be wrong as I didn't have the VHF on for very long - we didn't sail.

Ash