[FedCom] Pirates?? on 165.4875 Boston Area

[Mutual Aid Supplies, Inc.]

Tom, is it possible it could have been a foreign agency conducting a diplomatic protection detail ?
Was there a "visit" scheduled by an important "someone" to visit one of the Boston Consulates perhaps? 

This would explain the use of a CBP frequency in a foreign language as CBP would lend radios to the foreign agency as well as assist in the escort from the airport. The pirate theory is highly unlikely.

Roberto


________________________________
 From: Tom Greenwood <thegreenwoods1 at verizon.net>
To: 'Discussion of Federal Government Communications' <fedcom at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [FedCom] Pirates?? on 165.4875 Boston Area
 
Steve

Been parked on this freq since last night.  Last I heard anything was this
morning.  All appears quiet since.

73's
Tom, N1JQB


-----Original Message-----
From: fedcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:fedcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Steven Donnell
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 21:21
To: Discussion of Federal Government Communications
Subject: Re: [FedCom] Pirates?? on 165.4875 Boston Area

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?
>

______________________________________________________________
FedCom mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/fedcom
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:FedCom at mailman.qth.net

This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html

______________________________________________________________
FedCom mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/fedcom
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:FedCom at mailman.qth.net

This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html