Yes, in Europe, I've heard this sort of thing all the way up to 3.4Mhz. Many
are in French around 3.2Mhz.
The English speaking ones are just apparently people on all kind of ships
and boats and often their accents are northern England and lots of
swearing.
I doubt if its legal, but on the other hand, does it really do any harm
either?
Brian

"fred k engels" wrote in message
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poachers in the 80m ham band
"Rf Probe" wrote in message
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Starting at 1700 utc (+/-) daily a casual simplex USB
net takes place, no callsigns are ever used, just personal
recognition. No references to vessel names, or exact geographical
places, no lat/long etc.
This group of vessels comes up with causal chatter, laced
with profanity at times, close knit group. References are
often made about success/failure of fishing, gear, etc.
I'm curious, is this group of vessels participating in
illegal commercial fishing ? A clandestine communications
channel ?
Once, they went ashore and shot a moose and divided the
meat among several vessels. (the hunting season is closed
this time of year).
This 3824 khz useage is outside of the maritime ssb channels
from what I'ved googled and referenced in frequency lists.

Monitoring 3824 khz and curious .....

de
RF Probe
Anchorage, Alaska


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