These kind of beacons are common for use at the starting end of long lines
set by commercial fisherman so they can locate and retrieve the long lines
sometimes as long as 50 miles commonly set for sword fish and tuna he off
the east coast and surely everywhere else FYI also one that is commonly
hear on 1850 ssb is one that ID's "AD3" Sam
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From: topband-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Milt -- N5IA
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 4:50 PM
To: Mike Waters; galicic@comcast.net; topband
Subject: Re: Topband: Strange CW Coded Messages
For those that are interested in what one of these units looks like you can
go to https://bmoran.onehub.com/fishing-beacon-pictures/pages/files
There is a group of my photos, taken on Ducie Atoll, of the fishing beacon
which Robin, WA6CDR and I found while installing the Beverage antennas at
VP6DX.
de Milt, N5IA
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From: Mike Waters
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 1:02 PM
To: galicic@comcast.net ; topband
Subject: Re: Topband: Strange CW Coded Messages
Those blasted illegal fishnet buoy transmitters are in use all over the
world. I haven't spent much time on 160 in over a year, and I almost forgot
about them till you mentioned them. I could usually only hear them on a
Beverage.
I thought someone once mentioned on the Topband list that if you call CQ or
hold a QSO on top of one, they will move frequency, sometimes completely
outside 160m. If my memory serves me, the frequency can be remotely
controlled by the fishermen who use them.
One ham (somewhere) was compiling a list of fishnet beacon callsigns and
their locations.
On another subject, you may be able to hear RI1ANF (South Shetland Islands)
after dark. I've heard him to the SSE the past two nights on 1826.5 through
the lightning QRN. K3JJG in PA was copying him better than I was.
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:14 PM, joe <galicic@comcast.net> wrote:
> I could hear them fine on the L so they probably weren't too far away.
>
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