Topband: Strange CW Coded Messages

[Milt -- N5IA]

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


-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike Waters 
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 1:02 PM 
To: galicic at 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 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I could hear them fine on the L so they probably weren't too far away.
>
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