[FedCom] Shrimpers on Fed VHF, Same in La.

[Tom M.]

It is the same story in the Gulf of Mexico off La.

They are all over the VHF band, mostly Vietnamese.

Sometimes hear Spanish on the Customs repeater.  They even use the same PL as
Customs.

Tom
--- ed <bernies at netaxs.com> wrote:
> 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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