Coast Guard changed terminology

[jaymatt1978]

Just an observation -- over the past few days I have heard the Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay is saying "Shifting to 22A or 1022-- 157.100MHz" The 1022 channel thing has been around for a few years but this is time I have been hearing it used over the air during safety broadcasts. I wonder if other sectors are st arting to use the same terminology?>

 

[B]

Great observation, Justin, hearing the same here from Sector San Diego.

 

[ecps92]

Just an observation -- over the past few days I have heard the Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay is saying "Shifting to 22A or 1022-- 157.100MHz" The 1022 channel thing has been around for a few years but this is time I have been hearing it used over the air during safety broadcasts. I wonder if other sectors are st arting to use the same terminology?>

Not Boston, Yet
Could be they had an issue, with a Foreign Vessel ?

 

[rf_patriot200]

Just an observation -- over the past few days I have heard the Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay is saying "Shifting to 22A or 1022-- 157.100MHz" The 1022 channel thing has been around for a few years but this is time I have been hearing it used over the air during safety broadcasts. I wonder if other sectors are st arting to use the same terminology?>

Yes, that change is in place here in Illinois too.

 

[KC1UA]

Ditto here on Cape Cod with Sector Southeastern New England.

 

[autovon]

Sector Lake Michigan has been referring to the new 4 digit channel numbers for at least a few weeks now. Sometime referring it to 'ITU Channel xxxx'

 

[jaymatt1978]

Not Boston, Yet
Could be they had an issue, with a Foreign Vessel ?

Hi Bill,
Good to hear from you. No it was a safety broadcast for a bridge somewhere in New Jersey I wish I recorded it

 

[hill]

Sector Maryland National Capital Region (NCR) now gives both the old channel old 22A and 1022 during broadcasts.

 

[consys]

Listed here:

U.S. VHF Channel Information | Navigation Center

 

[mws72]

Just an observation -- over the past few days I have heard the Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay is saying "Shifting to 22A or 1022-- 157.100MHz" The 1022 channel thing has been around for a few years but this is time I have been hearing it used over the air during safety broadcasts. I wonder if other sectors are st arting to use the same terminology?>

Heard same at the times on the Mississippi River broadcasts in Iowa.

 

[ecps92]

Ditto here on Cape Cod with Sector Southeastern New England.

Ditto to Sector Boston ? or Ditto to the other Sectors who have begun using the new identifier ?

 

[KC1UA]

Ditto as in I'm hearing the same thing on Cape Cod with Sector Southeastern New England and their MIB announcements on CH16.

 

[ecps92]

Boston seems to vary by shift - heard the day shift using the new channel names this am
last night it was still the old

 

[SABER3]

They started using channel 10xx instead of the ##A they’ve been using since the 60’s. All the new vhf radios since about 2020 now have switched to the new ITU marine channel numbers. what puzzles me is why they still announce the frequency? Ithe last marine radio with the actual frequency‘s on the channel selector was an old Motorola vhf marine 8 channel crystal rig in the late 60’s.

 

[INDY72]

Because there are still a lot of older radios in use. There isn't an call to force new radios on people. Once digital comes, that will make them obsolete and force upgrades.