Topband: Fish net beacon locations?

[Mike Waters W0BTU]

Hello Petr,

Thank you! I'm happy that someone is trying to compile a list of beacons.

Perhaps the following exchange between myself and Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ, may help you update your beacon list web site. I posted a direction correction to the Topband list (SW, NOT SE), which has not shown up yet but is listed below.

I wish I had recorded more specifics about the beacon. I posted it as an afterthought, at least two days after I heard it, and had discarded my notes about it by then.

If enough people throughout the world post the beacon callsigns and direction from their QTH, two things might be accomplished:

 1. We could use the beacons as an indication of a band opening

 2. Perhaps the beacons could be located, so attempts could be made to silence them.


I don't know anything about the fishing business, but it seems to me that the beacons would not move around more than a hundred miles or so.


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 >Herb,
 >It was about the same time as yours.
 >73 Mike

--- On Tue, 3/23/10, Herb Schoenbohm <herbs at vitelcom.net> wrote:

> From: Herb Schoenbohm <herbs at vitelcom.net>
> Subject: Re: Topband: Fish net beacon locations?
> To: "Mike Waters W0BTU" <mrscience65704 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 2:32 PM
> Sure the pacific side would make
> sense but what time it was heard is important....my time is
> 0900 to1020Z
>
> Herb
>
> Mike Waters W0BTU wrote:

> > Hello Herb,
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > I'm fairly certain 4OJT was on the SW Beverage, not
> the SE. (Actually, the "SW-NE" Beverage points 240 or 60
> degrees, and it was pointed 240 degrees.) I could only hear
> it in that direction. The NW-SE Beverage actually points NW
> or SE.
> >
> >
> > 73,
> > Mike Waters
> > W0BTU
> > 

> From: Herb Schoenbohm <herbs at vitelcom.net>
> Subject: Re: Topband: Fish net beacon locations?
> To: "Mike Waters W0BTU" <mrscience65704 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: topband at contesting.com
> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 12:14 PM
> Mike 4OJT is heard often and appears
> to be W to WNW of my location on
> here in the Eastern Caribbean somewhere in the Gulf of a
> Mexico, where
> pelagic long line fisherman look for a good catch.
>
>
> Herb, KV4FZ
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73,
Mike Waters
W0BTU

--- On Tue, 3/23/10, Petr Ourednik <indians at xsmail.com> wrote:

> From: Petr Ourednik <indians at xsmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Topband: Fish net beacon locations?
> To: "Mike Waters W0BTU" <mrscience65704 at yahoo.com>, topband at contesting.com
> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 11:25 AM
> Mike,
> 
> I know that it will not help You as there are no locations
> in mni cases
> but check this
> http://topband.blog.cz/0611/160m-beacon-list
> 
> I am trying to u[date it as often as possible and put max.
> informations
> and details available.
> 
> 73 - Petr, OK1RP
> 
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:00:59 -0700 (PDT), "Mike Waters
> W0BTU"
> <mrscience65704 at yahoo.com>
> said:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > The other morning, I was listening to the 4OJT beacon
> on 1818. Strongest
> > on the SE [CORRECTION: Southwest] Beverage.
> > 
> > Although they are a nuisance, at least if we knew the
> locations of some
> > of them it would let us know where the band was open
> to.
> > 
> > I don't suppose there's a list of the fishnet beacons
> (or other beacons)
> > with callsigns and locations, is there?
> > 
> > 73,
> > Mike Waters
> > W0BTU