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

[Tom M.]

My company operates hundreds of platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.

All transmitters are licensed. Some are 120 miles out or more.

I think Uncle Sam expects licensing, but that doesn't stop the shrimpers.

We had a base on 158.22 Mhz.  Shrimpers were on 158.225.  Our pilot would yell
back at them in his Hollywood Vietnamese.

Tom
--- ed <bernies at netaxs.com> wrote:
> i wasn't aware FCC and USCG are responsible for enforcing international law 
> (at gunpoint in international waters.)  apparently they do what they want, 
> where they want to.  especially these days.
> 
> -ed
> 
> 
> At 04:01 PM 5/13/05 -0500, you wrote:
> >I'm familiar with the case, but international broadcasting from the high 
> >seas is prohibited by international law.  I don't know how strictly it's 
> >enforced, but there was discussion of the question way back when the Voice 
> >of America reoutfitted the old Coast Guard cutter ''Courier'' with 35 k.w. 
> >transmitters for broadcast relays and stationed it off Rhodes in the 
> >eastern Mediterranean to broadcast to the Balkans during the Cold 
> >War..  Two-way comms are definitely in a different category, but, again, I 
> >don't know what the applicable rules for them are.
> >
> >Bob, w0nxn
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "ed" <bernies at netaxs.com>
> >To: "Discussion of Federal Government Communications"
> <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
> >Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 12:56 PM
> >Subject: Re: [FedCom] Shrimpers on Fed VHF, Same in La.
> >
> >
> >>At 11:30 AM 5/13/05 -0500, R. Rankin wrote:
> >>>If they're more than 12 miles offshore, I wonder if it's even illegal?
> >>>
> >>>Bob, w0nxn
> >>
> >>
> >>ask allan weiner about the legality of transmitting in international
> waters:
> >>
> >>http://www.offshore-radio.de/fleet/sarah.htm
> >>
> >>-ed, n3kow
> >>
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