Topband: R: fishing buoys

[Miroslav BEBJAK]

Hi Luis and topband gang,

I don't think that these signals are from buoys...no ID at all, just strange 
series of dashes. I remember hearing it since I started on 160m as a 
teenager back in 80's. So far I don't know what these signals are good for.

73's and seasons greetings

Miro OM5RW






>From: "Luis Mansutti IV3PRK" <luisprk@tin.it>
>To: "Topband Reflector" <topband@contesting.com>,   "Ragnar Otterstad" 
><otterstad@enter.vg>
>Subject: Topband: R: fishing buoys
>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 23:14:59 +0100
>
>
>
> >
> > lled CQ JA as usual until their sunrise, but absolutely nothing, that
>portion
> > of the band was full of buoys QRM!
> >
> >
> > Luis
> > I thought this was a Nordic problem only. Sometimes I have a hard time
>hearing
> > the JAs and even EU stations due to these signals. What are they and 
>what
>is
> > the purpose?
> >
> > 73 Rag LA5HE
>
>Rag,
>that's not a Nordic problem only, but it's really hard also here to copy
>JA's among all those "tah..tah..tih.." signals.
>I don't know exactley, but they should be fishing buoys;  for me their
>general preferred direction is north-east, right on the JA  path and the
>portion of the JA band 1810-1825 sometimes is full of them, but not every
>night.
>For example on Dec. 15th there were no buoys despite a great JA opening;
>they appeared the following day, the 16th, and than 17th and 18th ....and
>again not tonite, the 19th, but in true I don't hear any JA station also;
>that portion of the band is clear!
>Two nights ago I have been listening them well after the sunrise over the
>japanese sea, and they were still there in the morning, so I suppose they
>could be somewhere in the Northern Sea....
>I put here your same question: what are they and what is the purpose?
>
>73
>Luis IV3PRK
>
>
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