Is there a general Cbrats channel in puget sound?

triehl27

I'm curious and I know I asked this last year going to Lopez, but in general is there a channel that Cbrats perfer to monitor for eachother out on the water of Puget sound?

Alyssa Jean · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:10 pm Post subject:

68 is the channel we use in this area.

triehl27 · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:17 pm Post subject: That's what I thought

OK that's what I thought. We're going out for a shake down this moning/afternoon. Headed down around the south sound. Maybe dyes inlet.

Got a new dog, thats never been on the boat or around water so we'll see how she does today BEFORE making the Lopez trip.

jimandlaurie · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:22 pm Post subject:

David is pretty much correct we use 68 usually at C-Brat Stuff, but some of us scan on VHF too, so 16 can be used to hail then switch I suppose.

gljjr · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:35 pm Post subject:

Most people I know (not just C-Brats) that monitor the VHF will scan 68 and 16. Some will also scan 69.

Most radios will allow you to scan several selected channels and then have 16 as the primary. What this means is that if something comes up on 16 it will trump any other channel in scan mode and switch you over to 16 even if someone is talking on the other scanned channels. Very handy IMHO.