The slow as molasses progress in coms

I agree for the most part although my VHF does have replay whereby you can listen to previous transmissions.

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Last Call Voice Recording
The last call voice recording function automatically saves the last two minutes of the last incoming call. You can replay the received call, and not miss any incoming call.

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The latter is a huge problem. I’m in the space business and boats stop launches all the time wondering into exclusion zones because they didn’t catch the callout on he radio or weren’t quick enough to jot done all 4+ sets of coordinates, plot them, and figure out where they weren’t supposed to be. Each times this happens the cost is in he millions if the launch is actually scrubbed.

I and many get notices when the launch zones will be closed. This is not an issue.
As that cruise ship a while back, You really have to be under the gene pool to stop a launch.

It’s a much bigger problem than you think. Especially in S Texas where people are less aware vs at the cape. Less launches are stopped now because we have helicopters flying around calling people on the radio, people monitoring AIS and calling them, etc. All at a huge expense. Most of the time they are oblivious.

It works for regular open transmissions. I no longer have that boat and now have the m510 which doesn't have the feature. I thought it would be useful, but I rarely used the feature.

Really good point. USCG could partner with, say, Sirius Weather or some other standard communication system where BOLO's can actually be displayed for you on your plotter like an AIS signal. Many ways to get the messages out more clearly and with an easier means of receiving and comprehending.

If I recall, AIS boundaries are present during launches in the eastern range.
Never witnessed these but figured they would be up soon enough for us to notice during our coastal transit.
Anybody experienced these AIS boundaries yet?

Would a lil F15 missile be cheaper? Nice educational tool?
Keep the launch on schedule?

I remember during the Shuttle launches, everybody knew what was going on.
Schedules and hard yellow buoys were off-shore to help.
I'm assuming these yellow cans are still offshore from the Cape?

I'm hear to tell you about the rush and vibration from a Shuttle launch while off shore.

I think it has to do with ease of use. Most people want/need voice on VHF and three buttons, channel change, push to talk and emergency. The DSC calling feature was so badly designed/mundated initially that nobody uses it today, save for a few nerds. It is unnecessary complicated to set up and make a DSC call. A total user interface failure. All of this could be easily fixed with an app on the phone that would connect to the radio via bluetooth and make the interface touch driven but there is no interest. So, people switched to using phones/Starlink and VHF will remain legacy as HF did. The seafairing communicty is notoriously conservative and recreational users are just not their priority.