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On 3/7/2024 at 11:42 AM, ABQrobin said:

Just about every beach club on the island offers a "free" tequila tasting.  

Unfortunately my experience has been Free Booze samplings is entirely different from a Tasting and learning about the differences

On 11/15/2020 at 6:24 PM, eileeshb said:

I did the tequila tasting at the discover Mexico park through an excursion from NCL, that tasting is run by Jose Cuervo. We tasted three types of tequila with different foods... the most expensive one with a nib of dark chocolate was the best. We then got a margarita afterwards and time to wander around the park. The discover Mexico park also has a a chocolate workshop and an art workshop. 

Anyone know if

a. The park is still open, as the web site has been down for sometime now

b. The Jose Cuervo tasting is still in Operation out front ?  

Going down in Oct and family would love to visit this site and the Tasting

On 2/23/2022 at 9:42 AM, blue_water said:

I know there are often changes but we’re seeing discrepancies between various sites. Is one site more reliable/accurate than others?

I've found this to be best for most of the major lines,  however as with anything slight +/- adjustments might not get shared by the cruiseline in a timely manner

https://www.cruisetimetables.com/#ports

On 2/9/2023 at 8:52 AM, crewsweeper said:

If you took the Jeep Your Cozumel, you may have gone to the Punta Sur Eco Park and then did the scuba and tequila tasting at Chankanaab Park or Discover Mexico, the affliated muesum next to the park.  You should be able to find  the tequila at Discover Mexico.  You can ask your taxi driver to stop on your return from Playa Mia.  If not there, you need to take a taxi toward downtown and stop at one of the 2 super markets along the way or go further into town to Covi Liquors.

 

There are several websites that rate tequilas available only in Mexico which should give you a decent guide to what to look for outside the commercial distilleries that export to the US. 

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Is Discover Mexico still doing the Tasting ?  Looked on line, not finding much.

Last visit it was Joe Cuervo sponsored but nothing even in our RCCL excursions about Discover Mexico 

On-Board Ops mostly while at Sea

More from Security/Shore-Exc when in port.

How many are missing/late - watch them run for the ship

Do you hear a lot when at sea ?

 

DH does not take his handheld on cruises but he may if there is something to hear

Sad so many folks do not know the limits of their Commercial / FRS / GMRS when leaving their home country. Those Bubble pack radios are worse than USA CB (27 Mhz)

Folks don't know that the GMRS / FRS is only valid in American, Canada and for only a few (FCC) type accepted radios Mexico

US Commercial Freq's might be assigned to Public Safety in the Country we visit. As you likely know your Australia CB is actually in the US TV Band and in some US Cities - Public Safety

I need to see what Carnival is selling on my next Cruise - out of curiosity.

That's why I like my Scanner and Amateur Radios (when I have applied for permits)

Good thread/Good chatter

What an interesting thread. I am an Amateur Radio Op in Australia. I was wondering about Ham radio bans on RCI ships as well.

 

In Australia we can take CB (citizen band) UHF radios on board, that's probably because they have 80 channels and they are set and cannot be programmed. In fact on Radiance last year they where selling them..

Stay away from the 457/467 Band as those Freqs are what the Cruise Ships use for on-board Comms (Yup, right in the same band as FRS/GMRS)

One thing to keep in-mind (others mention this with FRS) that the radios you have are generally (Business band not Amateur) LEGAL in the US and Canada, but not the various foreign countries.

I generally use my radios to listen (Head phones) and have only taken them off the boat, in Bermuda when I had a Permit for Amateur use

I am thinking about taking some of my better radios with me on my next trip . They are 5W max 36-174/400-480Mhz . Do you think these will be an issue onboard? Any recommendations on channels to use ? Any help will be very appreciated.

 

 

 

Thanks!

YMMV on this, however my experiences

http://scanmaritime.com has been much different. And the use of the VOIP phones has been limited as noted by the many confirmations at

http://scanmaritime.com/frequencies.htm

Generally Cruise Ships / Ocean Liners use UHF for internal Ship Ops

and VHF Marine for Ship/Ship, Ship-Shore, Port Control, CG etc

Cruise Ship Monitoring Part I

http://www.scannerdigest.com/sd60-newsletter.pdf

Cruise Ship Monitoring Part II

http://www.scannerdigest.com/sd63f_-_newsletter.pdf

If you are interested in listening to staff/crew on board the ship I seem to remember someone posting a while back that most of this is done via the walkie talkie (or push to talk) function of the cell phone issued to the crew and as such cannot be monitored by a scanner. Long distance comms are likely via satellite as indicated by an earlier post. Short range (less than 15 miles or so) ship to ship comms are likely on a marine channel in the 156 MHz range. What you may hear in foreign ports will vary widely depending on the prevalence of radio comms in that country and the bands used for different type services such as public safety, business, etc and may or may not be in English. You could always listen to everyone running around on the ship with the blister pack family radios. Those are in the 460's range.

???

Yes some ship ops occur on a VOIP Phone network, however there is still much one-board that is two-way FM Radio (YMMV by Ship/Cruise Line) much of it Analog

As for the ship using Amateur radio?? Only as a hobby or a last resort (Distress) :eek:

The ship staff wireless communication network is what cruise staff use for intra ship communication which is basically a VOIP system for ships communication with outside world is mostly digital the only reason I could see them using ham radio is incase the system broke down

1.) Actually some have begun to use Non Analog modes (NXDN, TRBO) Some of the newer ships are already Narrowbanded.

2.) Ship-Ship can also be VHF Marine

3.) Ship back to home office is generally Internet (Data) and Satellite for Voice.

There are a couple of things here:

1. On-ship walkie talkie communications will not be digital, you should be able to pick them up between 100 and 200MHz, or 400 to 500MHz FM, maybe narrow band, but I doubt it.

2. Ship-to-ship radio is single sideband somewhere in the vicinity of 29 MHz, but could be as low as 1MHz to 50MHz. The down side of this is they mostly monitor this and only use it during maritime incidents or when communicating with ships in the area to find out if they intend to make any moves.

3. Ship-to-shore is probably mostly done on satellite now and will be digital and/or encrypted. They probably have an HF or MF radio on the ship that allows long distance communications for times when Satellite is either over the horizon or other impairments.

 

I know about #2 because I am a ham and during the behind the fun tour, while on the bridge I looked at the comminications station and made a mental note of what areas they had the radios set to. I do not remember exact frequencies, but I bet if you look up maritime sideband frequencies you will find them.

Hope you enjoy the info from the site :rolleyes:

Great info! And very specific. Thanks!

 

And great point about the satellite comms likely being encrypted (but not necessarily the other stuff). That makes sense.

 

 

 

Fabulous! I'll make a note of the frequencies listed for the Victory. Thank you!

Plenty to listen to. I do it all the time. :cool:

Some of the Ops will be foreign Lang, however Bridge Ops and VHF Marine will generally be in English

See my Tagline for a web site that has MOST of the US Operating Ships

A Typical Police Scanner works Well.

Which Ship and What Dates, might even be able to get you Freqs for the other ships you will run across

Hi there,

 

I was thinking it might be fun to bring a handheld radio scanner with us on our upcoming B2B2B. Just to see what we can listen to... Ship communications, maritime chatter, port traffic... whatever!

 

DH, however, is convinced that it's impossible -- that all of these comms have moved to digital and/or encrypted frequencies, and there's no way to pick anything up with the scanners we've got.

 

Does anyone have any recent experience with this? Better yet, does anyone know which frequencies to listen to? I wasn't planning to transmit, just listen.

 

Thanks, cruisers.

Those are old rules and were designed for the Amateur HF Rigs.

Sadly it has never been updated. And they (Security) would not now the difference in a portable FRS/GMRS vs a commercial or Amateur radio.

Amateur Radio will not typically interfere with modern cruise ship VHF Marine and/or internal UHF Ops. FRS/GMRS have more of a change to interfere.

Generally a portable will not cause any issues. My last cruise, the Cabin Steward saw/heard my Scanner (in the cabinet) and I had a one-on-one with Security explaining it did not transmit. I'm brining mine again on the next cruise, however as always YMMV

Listening is not a prohibition. :rolleyes: It's even fun as we listen/watch for the late-runners

Ham radios of any type are strictly forbidden and will be confiscated if found. Anything that could possibly interfere or listen into ship channels is not allowed onboard.

Yes there is :cool:

also if you google cruise ship & maritime freguencies there is a nice page of freq he could listen to as well.

Take it, sit back and enjoy the fun. It might be boring one minute and then you have a medical or a USCG Helo doing a Hoist.

Cool, im nosey and love that kinda stuff, especially since here where I live they must have scrambled the frequencies, I cant much cept sometimes late at night on a weekend I might hear a few calls, mostly nothing