[Milsurplus] The old 2 MHz boat channels ?

[Michael St. Angelo]

I was taking a domestic business flight years ago. The cockpit door was open
as I boarded so I looked in to examine the neat instruments. A license
posted on the inside of the cockpit door caught my eye. It was a FCC Third
Class Radiotelephone License authorizing operation on 2.182 Mhz.
I don't remember the plane but it could have been a 737 designed for
domestic flights. Does a 737 designed for domestic overland flights normally
carry an HF SSB radio? Could this plane have a radio designed for operation
only on the 2182 Emergency frequency?
Can commercial aircraft monitor the 156.8 Mhz Marine Distress frequency?

Mike N2MS



-----Original Message-----
From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of B.
Smith
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 10:19 PM
To: Milsurplus
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] The old 2 MHz boat channels ?

   When crossing either the Atlantic or Pacific and flying in other remote
areas  you always tried to monitored 2182 and 500 IAW directives.  When a
military HF station could not be raised on the assigned frequency for that
area you could always send out a relay request on 2182  and send your
position information. At least "someone" 
had your last known position.  :-)
k4che

On 5/25/2017 7:38 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
> I wish in the heyday I had listened on 500 kHz but for some reason never
did and I still don't know why.
> I did at one time have a HB single-tube VLF receiver which I copied 
> several U.S. Navy stations on. And I did also like to tune my RAL in 
> to CKN's Pacific weather and seas broadcasts, but for some reason didn't
think about 600 meters.
> -Hue
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