wrote:


I am AMAZED at all the calls to airliners to "come up on
frequency XXX.XX and contact Center". :-)


I heard yesterday a bunch of people who were coming up on
121.5 to get center to give them a new frequency as the
sector they were using had a stuck mike on it.

I also heard some fractional jet operator using it for
relaying non-essential communications (limousine availability)
and other people using it as a hailing frequency (aka Marine
channel 16) and then going off to (get this) fingers.

I've also heard people griping to other people (over the air)
of their abuse of 121.5