Mooloolaba Coast Guard news
Read the latest news from Coast Guard Mooloolaba which includes a new website address, SMS notifications and more.
The Coast Guard Mooloolaba has a new web address, which www.qf6.org.au.
The “Rescue” Magazine can be downloaded from this site – back copies also are available.
This also affects those that use method 3 (below) to log on and off – now use “qf6.org.au/vmr406.php”
A reminder:- Coast Guard Mooloolaba sends SMS Notifications
As you may be aware, Coast Guards Mooloolaba, Tin Can Bay, Sandy Straights and Marine Radio Manly use the Marine electronic Radio Log (M.e.R.L.) to record all communications. This now has the capacity to automatically generate SMS’s to the given mobile phone number.
SMS’s will be sent when:-
a. A vessel becomes “overdue”.
b. Vessels using the “Boat Beacon App” on log on and log off.
c. When a vessel using “Boat Beacon App” enters a different control area (e.g. A vessel leaving Moreton Bay for Tin Can Bay, on activating “Boat Beacon” will be automatically logged on to Marine Radio Manly, on leaving Moreton Bay will automatically logged on to C.G. Mooloolaba and when in C.G. Tin Can Bay’s area automatically logged on with them – SMS’s will be sent with that advice). If you get an SMS from a station with the code starting with “TNG”, you should be on land. “TNG406” and other “TRG” site are purely used for testing and training and are NOT monitored.
NOTE: These SMS’s are sent from random Telstra mobile phone numbers – PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THESE NUMBERS.
The Radio Operators wish to encourage the use of their “Sea Watch” service.
It is easy to log on by:-
1. Radio VHF73 with your MBA number.
2. Automatically using “Boat Beacon AIS” app (Please advise your Boat Beacon ID).
3. Or via your mobile phone web browser, make “qf6.org.au/vmr406.php” a “favourite” and follow the prompts (enter your MBA No. and vessel registration once and it will remember you). This allows you to log on/off and make changes.
Safe boating,
Adrian Carroll
For the M.e.R.L. team