[FedCom] Pirates?? on 165.4875 Boston Area

[Greg Brazil]

Always was just guessing 

On Jan 15, 2013, at 8:16, "Michael W. Scheel" <mws1972 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would say without a recording and translated by compentent person. All there is left are guessess. 
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> Michael W Scheel N0NGL KPC0QCS Davenport, Iowa USA
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> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:39:08 
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> Being near a waterway, that traffic may have emanated from aboard a 
> passing foreign fishing vessel.
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> -bernieS
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> 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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>> -----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
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>> 
>> 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
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>>> 
>>> 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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