[FedCom] Shrimpers on Fed VHF

[ed]

back in the 80's i picked up a pair of gov't surplus motorola HT's at a 
hamfest dirt cheap.  turns out they were crystalled on a US Army Corp of 
Engineers VHF freq.  when i turned one on near philadelphia, i heard 
foreign fishing boats bootlegging on that frequency.

-ed


At 06:41 AM 5/13/05 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Mac,
>Hamfests are popular places to 'acquire' surplus radio gear for private
>communications (marine and otherwise).  This could have been the source
>of the equipment being used on 167.900 MHz.
>
>Just curious, do you see a CTCSS tone present in the comms you are
>monitoring?  I seem to remember that USSS used 103.5 Hz as 'their'
>standard on most of their other channels (IE: Charlie, Baker, etc.)
>
>
>One other idea:
>
>Check 157.200 MHz for comms.  This is the ship transmit side of Marine
>Channel #24 (Shore side is 161.800 MHz).
>
>167.900 - 10.7 = 157.200
>
>Now that most vhf-marine operators have left the air, I have heard
>reports of fishermen running semi-private comms on the ship side of
>this channel pair and the other unused PUBLIC CORRESPONDENCE
>frequencies.  MariTel <http://www.maritelusa.com/> has shut-down all
>public coorispondence (marine telephone operator) services nationwide.
>(MariTel discontinued marine operations a couple of years ago in an
>attempt to reuse the nationwide frequency pairs for other uses like
>data and private wireless.)
>
>Most marine radios can't listen to the ship side.  It is a legitimate
>marine frequency, mostly unused, and I guess ok in their minds to use.
>
>Just a thought...
>
>73,
>Mark Cobbeldick, KB4CVN
>Virginia
>
>
>
>
>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 20:07:37 -0400
>From: "Mac McCormick III" <kf4lmt at comcast.net>
>Subject: [FedCom] Shrimpers on Fed VHF
>To: "ScanSavannah" <scansavannah at yahoogroups.com>,"Flacom"
><flacom at yahoogroups.com>, "FedCom" <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
>
>
>I'm catching Shrimpers bootlegging on 167.900, which I have as USSS
>Hotel tonight.  VHF conditions are enhanced, so I'm not sure of a
>location.  They've been going at it pretty steady for awhile talking
>about the success of drags, size of shrimp, etc.  Interesting choice of
>a frequency to bootleg on...
>
>Mac McCormick                      "Green Comms Suck"
>Savannah, GA
>http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kf4lmt/index.html
>
>------------------------------
>Message: 7
>Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:02:50 -0400
>From: "Mac McCormick III" <kf4lmt at comcast.net>
>Subject: [FedCom] Re: Shrimpers on Fed VHF
>To: "ScanSavannah"
><scansavannah at yahoogroups.com>,"Flacom"<flacom at yahoogroups.com>,
>"FedCom" <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mac McCormick III" <kf4lmt at comcast.net>
> > I'm catching shrimpers bootlegging on 167.900
>
>     One of them mentioned Mayport, so I'm guessing this
>     bunch must be around the Jacksonville, FL area.
>
>Mac
>Savannah, GA
>
>
>
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