Originally Posted by
Packer Backer
The problem is that the more chatter we start to hear on guard, the lower the volume gets and the more we tune it out. All 121 airplanes should be required to have a satphone or at least an acars that sounds some sort of chime.
I always keep guard at a level where you can hear it just loud enough to make things out, but not loud enough to be annoying.
In my military plane, things don't get interesting until you are using/listening to two UHF radios (one with guard on, both using secure communications or anti-jam equipment), two VHF radios, an intercomm, and maybe an HF radio. Good times ... not! Thank God for engineers.