[FedCom] Pirates?? on 165.4875 Boston Area

[Michael W. Scheel]

I would say without a recording and translated by compentent person. All there is left are guessess. 




Michael W Scheel N0NGL KPC0QCS Davenport, Iowa USA

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Subject: Re: [FedCom] Pirates?? on 165.4875 Boston Area

Being near a waterway, that traffic may have emanated from aboard a 
passing foreign fishing vessel.

-bernieS



At 10:37 PM 1/14/2013, you wrote:
>Steve
>
>Been parked on this freq since last night.  Last I heard anything was this
>morning.  All appears quiet since.
>
>73's
>Tom, N1JQB
>
>
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>
>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?
> >
>
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