There was a long, interesting article in the Low Band Monitor a few
years ago, which included photographs of some of them recovered
on an island in the Pacific.
I don't have my back issues handy, and don't recall all the details.
Someone will have the issue at hand.
Jeff Maass jmaass@columbus.rr.com Located near Columbus Ohio
USPSA # L-1192 NROI/CRO Amateur Radio K8ND
Maass' IPSC Resources: http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass/index.html
Circleville USPSA/IPSC: http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass/pcsiipsc.htm
> -----Original Message-----
> From: topband-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Ken Brown
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 01:14
> To: topband@contesting.com
> Subject: Topband: Fish Net Beacons
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Out here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean we hear a lot of beacon
> transmitters on 160 meters. I used to hear them in California too,
> though not as much. These things have three or four character callsigns
> which repeat a couple of times and then they send a really long
> dahhhhhhh. I have heard (somewhere, I cannot remember where) that they
> are beacons attached to drift nets, used to find the net by DFing. I
> wonder if anyone out there has any good information about these things?
> Are they legal? Who else hears them? Do people in Europe or on the East
> Coast of North America hear them? Are they in the Atlantic too? Has
> anyone actually seen one of these devices? How much power do they put
> out? What is their power source? What kind of antenna do they use?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken N6KB
>
>
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