I have been hearing more activity that appears to be illegal voice than I have ever heard in the past 50 years. It is so bad that a number of times I have been hearing voice transmissions that interfere with WWV reception!
Probably much of the voice activity on the ham bands that are in the U.S. text data portions of the bands are due to operators in other countries moving lower. I know that Canadians in particular were very upset with the liberalization of the U.S. voice frequencies some years ago and declared that they would move down below the U.S. frequencies. In fact, I remember someone commenting that if the U.S. ever increased liberalization of the voice bands, they would just move down even further. Since the more recent increase in voice bandwidths for U.S. hams this may have caused at least some of this. Although on 40 meters you will often hear wide split operation because those outside of Region 2 may not have as wide a band, I recently heard a CU2 working narrow split down around the digital area. When the 10 meter band is open we can have many pirates operating in the text data areas of the band since that likely seems like an unused part of the spectrum to those stations. 73, Rick, KV9U Brad wrote: > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Leigh L Klotz, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I have ben hearing what sounds like Vietnamese on 14.070 LSB. I >> > suspect > >> bootleg operation. >> > > We hear a lot of that throughout 40, 30 and 20m and everywhere in > between. All Asian pirates, fishing vessels, phone patches, all sorts > of things. It can really ruin 10132 for a start. > > Brad VK2QQ > >