Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!killer!vector!nobody From: roy@phri (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Ship-to-shore telephone Message-ID: Date: 15 Oct 88 01:35:27 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 15 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu (TELECOM Digest Coordinator) X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp (USENET Telecom Moderator) X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 162, message 6 This past weekend, I was on a boat with a marine VHF radio. One of the things you can do with this is to call (on channel 22?) the marine operator and ask her (NOTE: all written references that I've seen refer to the marine operator as "her") to place a call for you. Presumably, you either have to call collect or charge the call to a calling card. Who handles the call? Does AT&T have all the marine operator service? Can you get to an alternate long distance carrier if you want to? Are there marine AOSs? Is there any way to receive an incomming call (i.e. initiated by a shore station, calling a vessel at sea)? -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net "The connector is the network"