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| Cannot be official business, as far as I am concerned.

I share the opinion but possibly semi-official like chats between offshore
fishers.

| Their transmissions a way too short. 3 MHz
| band has not been used by anyone in years (on a regular basis). It was
| never stable even at night,and especially now, with such minimal
| sunspot number. The operating frequencies seem to be floating, this is
| not typical of any regular business I can think of. And they ALL
| transmit only in AM? Big mystery.

Some ideas:
isolated communities in small siberian towns, having only radio to
communicate?
trappers in the north, isolated in their shack?
Even though some official services in Russia get poor funds from government,
I can't believe they would be endowed today with AM TRX. It is an old
technology still in use only for broadcasting. It is unlikely that AM TRX
have been bought after the fall of USSR. And during USSR, it was not
possible to buy TRX so I presume that the today AM TRX have been provided in
the past by the soviet government and are still in use today, and that
theirs users would have not much money to replace them.

On Jan 17, 10:26*am, "François Guillet"
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| *Cannot be official business, as far as I am concerned.

I share the opinion but possibly semi-official like chats between offshore
fishers.

| Their transmissions a way too short. 3 MHz
| band has not been used by anyone in years (on a regular basis). It was
| never stable even at night,and especially now, with such minimal
| sunspot number. The operating frequencies seem to be floating, this is
| not typical of any regular business I can think of. *And they ALL
| transmit only in AM? Big mystery.

Some ideas:
isolated communities in small siberian towns, having only radio to
communicate?
trappers in the north, isolated in their shack?
Even though some official services in Russia get poor funds from government,
I can't believe they would be endowed today with AM TRX. It is an old
technology still in use only for broadcasting. It is unlikely that AM TRX
have been bought after the fall of USSR. And during USSR, it was not
possible to buy TRX so I presume that the today AM TRX have been provided in
the past by the soviet government and are still in use today, and that
theirs users would have not much money to replace them.

All of this is quite possible. But, why they do not have
'handles' (using the old CB lingo) or some sort of noms de guerre?
Fisherman ALWAYS identified themselves in the past,usually clearly
stating the name of the vessel. Isolated communities- may be,
considering such wildly fluctuating signals. Especially if propagation
is via the the polar region,perhaps. And once again, official radio
transmissions normally do not contain such dirty language ,other than
military(was quite common in the past). And those won't be in AM and
unencrypted .I just wonder if these brief trx's are audible by anyone
else,outside France?

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| Fisherman ALWAYS identified themselves in the past,usually clearly
| stating the name of the vessel.

In Europe it is never the case when they chat with one another (at least for
Spanish, Dutch, English, French and others. They identified themselves only
when they call coast stations).

| Isolated communities- may be,
| considering such wildly fluctuating signals. Especially if propagation
| is via the the polar region,perhaps. And once again, official radio
| transmissions normally do not contain such dirty language ,other than
| military(was quite common in the past).

I agree it is surely not official transmissions.
But it could be unofficial transmissions from official operators during
their leisure time.

| And those won't be in AM and
| unencrypted .I just wonder if these brief trx's are audible by anyone
| else,outside France?

I ask it on the French group fr.rec.radio. Two others received them but
nobody knew russian (and they were in France).
Then I came here but it seems there are not many Europeans. I thought that
rec.radio.shortwave was an international group in english, with no region
dedicated.

On Jan 19, 1:30*pm, "François Guillet"
wrote:
a écrit dans le message de news:
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| Fisherman *ALWAYS identified themselves in the past,usually clearly
| stating the name of the vessel.

In Europe it is never the case when they chat with one another (at least for
Spanish, Dutch, English, French and others. They identified themselves only
when they call coast stations).

| Isolated communities- may be,
| considering such wildly fluctuating signals. Especially if propagation
| is via the the polar region,perhaps. *And once again, official radio
| transmissions normally do not contain such dirty language ,other than
| military(was quite common in the past).

I agree it is surely not official transmissions.
But it could be unofficial transmissions from official operators during
their leisure time.

| And those won't be in AM and
| unencrypted .I just wonder if these brief trx's are audible by anyone
| else,outside France?

I ask it on the French group fr.rec.radio. Two others received them but
nobody knew russian (and they were in France).
Then I came here but it seems there are not many Europeans. I thought that
rec.radio.shortwave was an international group in english, with no region
dedicated.

It does seem that majority of r.r.s. participants has mostly
N.Americans with a small segment of English speaking enthusiasts from
everywhere else. Is French language still used in Nice,Cote d'Azour ?
From what we hear it has been invaded by the russians in the last
several years . If more and slightly longer recordings are made,
eventually those mysterious "fishermen" will mention something to
disclose their location or purpose.