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The Filipino Monkey Strikes Again (and again and again…)

By On January 5, 2012

13 January 2008 – So I’m watching CNN and I do a double take after the reporter (in a completely straight face) says “The harassing radio communications that ignited the [...]

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A Search For The Ultimate Portable UHF Radio – It’s Time To Replace The HT750

By On October 19, 2010

Photo By OneEighteen If you work on ships it’s likely you are familiar with the Motorola HT750 Portable Two-Way UHF Radio. It’s well built, simple to use and is intrinsically [...]

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M/V Communicator – Interesting (Pirate) Ship Of The Week

By On April 4, 2010

Suffering from regulatory pressure, uncooperative management and looking at the success of a previous pirate radio ship, the Radio Caroline, a team of radio executives planned to create a new [...]

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Wireless Developments Circa 1917

By On June 2, 2009

Bearings, “A Geographer’s Blog” from Berkley, has a new series on Radio’s Rise During World War I. The series includes the history of undersea cables and the ships that pioneered [...]

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Collision Avoidance Tip – Call his boss!

By On May 28, 2009

It’s the classic scenario from the Academy… You are the stand on vessel with no room to maneuver and a zero CPA contact is bearing down on you. You try [...]

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AIS as a DSC Transceiver

By On January 5, 2008

Kurt Schwehr, UNH Professor and author of Kurt’s weblog point us to this quick tip; Fred Pot pointed me to the ability of an AIS device to assist in making [...]

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Maritime Podcast – Episode 02

By On December 13, 2007

Here’s episode 02 of Messing About In Ships, your new maritime podcast. This week’s topics include; Listener Comments Antarctic Cruise Ship Sinking Sinking of the Texas Clipper Pasha Bulker Incident [...]

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Big Announcement… gCaptain’s First Podcast

By On December 8, 2007

We are thrilled to announce a new endeavor from the editors of gCaptain and leadership gurus at Sea Fever Consulting… A Maritime podcast; Messing About In Ships. Starting today, gCaptain’s [...]

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