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3rd Jan 2003, 21:45

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So emergencies are often handled on standard R/T frequencies? In that case, what's the point of the D+D freq. (121.5 I think)? My experience of maritime VHF is that MAYDAYs, PANs etc. are handled on the emergency channel (channel 16)