I didn't think east coast guard was bad until I started crossing the pond. Kazakhstan to Hong Kong is 4-5 hours over mainland China where it's nonstop chatter in Chinese on the active frequency (and you can't turn that off). Pakistan/Kolkata/Bangladesh is 3 hrs of squeeling over-amplified radio frequencies that will make your ears bleed. One thing you don't hear however, is chatter on guard. It seems to be a problem isolated to US. On occasion, you hear a wrong transmission on guard over Western Europe, and 9/10 times the "you're on guard" reply is in an American voice.


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