I am cruising along the Oz east coast, at night, & I pick up a big tanker on my AIS heading my way!!

I sus him out & give him a call on Ch 16 VHS to see if he has me on his radar.

He responds to my call on 16.

What channel do I tell him to switch to so we can continue without hogging the emergency channel??

Is there a preference?

Hasn't happened yet but I'd like to be prepared

Cheers,
Larry

Donk107 said..
Hi Lazzz

77 Looks ok to me

Regards Don

+1

I know that the instigator of the call designates the channel to move to, but you can ask the callee.
i. e. "Which channel should we move to?"

It is not an uncommon thing to do.

Gary

Once both parties have gone to the designated channel, who speaks first ??.

72 is a reasonable choice as designated for commercial ,fishing & recreational .

Cheers

Bristol

It is my understanding that all vessels over a certain length 35? ( I know it's 20 in the US ) must have 13 on standby for bridge to bridge navigation safety
I would hail on 13 direct as no need to go to another if no answer go to 16 and hail
amsa
"Channel 13 is designated for use on a worldwide basis as a navigation safety communication channel, primarily for intership navigation safety communications. It may also be used for the ship movement and port operations service subject to the national regulations of the administrations concerned."

It's going to vary a bit from area to area. I scan 14 and 72 for the local fishing vessels, amateurs have started using 14 too but there is often interesting useful information to be found re weather and currents. I would switch to 14 to chat.
69 is the navy, they talk in plain language these days and it's helpful to hear what they are up too when your near operational areas. Apart from that if I was travelling the coast I would check out Rob's planner and see what channels are used by different groups and continuously scan the appropriate ones.

bluepeteraustralia.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/passageplanner2011.pdf

Ramona said..

bluepeteraustralia.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/passageplanner2011.pdf

There are updates to Rob's book at Skipr.net that now take it up to Lizard Island.