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-boun...@contesting.com [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Milt -- N5IA Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 4:50 PM To: Mike Waters; gali...@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: gali...@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 <gali...@comcast.net> wrote: > I could hear them fine on the L so they probably weren't too far away. > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2180 / Virus Database: 2433/5062 - Release Date: 06/11/12 _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK