Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!netsys!vector!nobody From: pdn!larry@uunet.UU.NET (Larry Swift) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Ship-to-shore telephone Message-ID: Date: 4 Nov 88 14:02:42 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 30 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 171, message 5 In article roy@phri (Roy Smith) writes: > 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 I regularly hear and have talked with male operators (else they are women with very low voices!) >either have to call collect or charge the call to a calling card. Or you can be pre-registered with the marine service company. > 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? No on both counts, in my experience. And the far Southwest Florida service is outrageously expensive. The Tampa area is GTE and more reasonable. >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)? Marine operators broadcast for vessels that have in-coming traffic waiting for them on channel 16. Larry Swift UUCP: {peora,uunet}!pdn!larry Paradyne Corp., LF-207 Phone: (813) 530-8605 P. O. Box 2826 Largo, FL, 34649-9981 She's old and she's creaky, but she holds!