Thanks for the Heads up Steve..

Always appreciate the SW info..;
Dan
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Anybody heard this?

INTERNATIONAL WATERS [non]. Subject: [BDXC-UK] "Coalition Maritime
Forces" on 6125, 15500 kHz

Jeff Weston spotted this seemingly official [US military?]
announcement today on a Navigations Warning web site:

HYDROPAC 694/2004 (62). PERSIAN GULF.
1. IN RESPONSE TO ALL MARINERS THAT HAVE HELPED COALITION MARITIME
FORCES IN THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR AND TO CONTINUE BUILDING RELATIONS
WITH A LARGER AUDIENCE, COALITION MARITIME BROADCASTS BEGAN SHORT-WAVE
HF RADIO BROADCASTS ON 15 APRIL DISSEMINATING POPULAR REGIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL MUSIC AS WELL AS INFORMATION IN ARABIC, FARSI, HINDI,
PASHTU, URDU, AND ENGLISH. THE INFORMATION PORTIONS WILL PROVIDE
LISTENERS METHODS TO CONTINUE ASSISTING COALITION MARITIME FORCES IN
IDENTIFYING AND REPORTING TERRORIST ACTIVITY CONDUCTED AT SEA.
MARINERS CAN LISTEN TO THE MORNING BROADCAST BETWEEN THE HOURS OF
0300Z TO 0800Z ON 6125 KHZ AND THE EVENING BROADCAST BETWEEN 1400Z TO
1900Z ON 15500 KHZ (via Jeff Weston, BDXC-UK, 21 April)

The original text was apparently published on this website:
http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/MISC/warn/dm_p.html

This specific text is no longer there since the page is constantly
updated, but Google has the original edition of 20 April (where the
text referring to the broadcasts was published) in its cache if you
type "COALITION MARITIME BROADCASTS":

20 APRIL 2004

DAILY MEMORANDUM PACIFIC EDITION No. 76

NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

NAVAREA XII 142/2004 to 142/2004 HYDROPAC 692/2004 to 697/2004
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HYDROPAC 694/2004 (62) ...... (as above) ........

(Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Site?
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Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm