"Maximus" wrote:

There are a lot of frequencies in use by commercial vessels and
fishing vessels scattered in the lower bands.

Thanks for the list, but what I had in mind are the non-official simplex
freqs which real fisherman use to chat and swap notes while at sea, and not
to communicate with shore stations or the coast guard. I used to hear many
such boats years ago, similar to the 2958 I mentioned.

Similarly, many foreign ship-board radio operators chat off-channel on non-
official freqs scattered in the marine and aero SSB bands.

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