VHF: Listen & Decode

Last updated: March 15, 2026

VHF: Listen & Decode is free practice. You listen to live yacht VHF radio at the FairHelm school. This is only listening, not the association's document.

Three listening modules

Drawing: two boats and a line between them

Ordinary talk

A boat talks to another boat, to the place where boats are kept, or says where it is on the water.

Drawing: a short mark of a call for help

Asking for help

You hear a short example of people on the water asking for help.

Drawing: the line you fill in yourself

Your answer

You decide what you would say next in this conversation.

VHF is the radio boats use to talk to each other on the water. Whether you understood the conversation or not, nobody grades it.

When registration is needed

Drawing: listening without registration

Start listening

You can open this step at once. Registration is not needed for it.

Drawing: registration before the three modules

Registration for the three modules

Registration is asked only when you go on into the three modules.

These three modules do not include the help button on the radio itself.

The questions you read are on the page VHF/SRC exam question bank. After the course VHF Radio Online there can be an SRC paper, the paper for this radio. This is written on the page Why radio is asked separately from the skipper step.