[FedCom] Pirates?? on 165.4875 Boston Area

[bernieS]

Back in the mid 1990's I monitored foreign intraship crew comms from 
a fishing vessel (shrimp boat?) using a frequency in the 165 MHz 
range of the VHF Fed band with no PL late at night.  This was in 
Philadelphia PA where such vessels regularly cruise the Delaware 
River transporting seafood cargo to ports.  The language was hard to 
determine, but it was obviously not licensed Fed traffic.

-bernieS



At 08:47 AM 1/14/2013, you wrote:
>Don't know, Bill.  Need to dig a little deeper.  Had this also coming in
>also on a second radio.  Have not been able to catch these guys long enough
>to conduct some real sigint on them.
>
>Not sure of the language, either.  Does not sound like Spanish.  Portuguese
>maybe?
>
>Quite possible it is not coming through the CBP repeater.  Only was able to
>catch it briefly but appears to be in between 165.475 and 167.4875.  Not
>centered on either frequency according to the center tuning meter on the
>R7000.  Could still be an intermod but quite possibly being generated
>externally as I am now hearing it on 3 different pieces of equipment.
>
>Tom
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: fedcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:fedcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
>On Behalf Of ~Bill
>Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 07:35
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>Subject: Re: [FedCom] Pirates?? on 165.4875 Boston Area
>
>Tom what tone?
>
>CBP here in New England is generally P25 and Net25 is from Worcester unless
>hearing Blackstrap (ME), Ascutney (VT) or Trumbull (CT)
>
>
>Bill
>Scanmaritime.com
>
>
>Sent from my Motorola Smartphone on the Now Network from Sprint!
>
>-----Original message-----
>From: Tom Greenwood <thegreenwoods1 at verizon.net>
>To: 'Discussion of Federal Government Communications'
><fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Sun, Jan 13, 2013 22:04:53 EST
>Subject: [FedCom] Pirates?? on 165.4875 Boston Area
>
>Stations chatting in unknown language clear voice currently being heard
>through the 165.4875 repeater in the Boston area.
>
>Anybody else hearing this?  First thought it might be an intermod until I
>verified reception of the same signals with a second radio.
>
>73's
>Tom Greenwood
>N1JQB
>Metro West Boston
>
>
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