[FedCom] Pirates?? on 165.4875 Boston Area

[Steven Donnell]

Any more on this? There was a bit of a band opening over the weekend; 
Saw someone in Arlington, MA mentioned they were hearing Cumberland Co 
ME. And from dxinfocentre.com, there was a pretty good tropo duct right 
on top of us(gone now).

Also worth noting when you hear something strange like this: See if it 
might be a 2nd or even 3rd harmonic. I once heard a very weak signal 
around 171 MHz, and it turned out to be some type of bug/wire operating 
just below the FM Broadcast band. One sure sign is if the signal sounds 
overly rich/wide, as FM Deviation multiplies as the carrier freq 
multiplies.

Steve  WA1YKL


On 1/14/2013 9:29 AM, bernieS wrote:
> 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?
>