Topband: Strange CW Coded Messages

[Herb Schoenbohm]

These fish beacons are sometimes very strong and normally out in the 
Gulf of Mexico.  I just wish I could replicate the QRP transmitter and 
antenna....or is it just the saltwater ground?


Herb




On 6/11/2012 6:01 PM, Sam Harner wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: topband-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Milt -- N5IA
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 4:50 PM
> To: Mike Waters; galicic at 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
>
>
> -----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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