3824 khz Maritime activity
 

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

3824 khz Maritime activity
 

poachers in the 80m ham band
"Rf Probe" wrote in message
...
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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3824 khz Maritime activity
 

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
...
poachers in the 80m ham band
"Rf Probe" wrote in message
...
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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3824 khz Maritime activity
 

Informative comment Brian. I was curious if this was
a global trend, maritime comm's seeking "private links"
outside of the official maritime channels.
Today they are working on resolving some type of winch
problem on one of their vessels. Trying to avoid returning
to " Dutch " for repairs. Clearly they are referring to
Dutch Harbor, Alaska on the Aleutian Chain.

Strong Signals to all ....
de Rf Probe

3824 khz Maritime activity
 

On 1/10/2016 3:46 AM, Brian Gaff wrote

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

Does it do any harm?

If you are a licensed user of the frequency and the unlicensed ones are
jamming the legal users, that could easily be construed as "doing harm".

It comes down to laws versus anarchy.

3824 khz Maritime activity
 

Joe from Kokomo wrote:



If you are a licensed user of the frequency and the unlicensed ones are
jamming the legal users, that could easily be construed as "doing harm".

It comes down to laws versus anarchy.

Do complaints routinely get filed to the FCC? Does the ARRL or somebody
keep a public database of illegal interference complaints?

3824 khz Maritime activity
 

Hils wrote:

Ofcom are unlikely to take action unless they cause interference to
licensed users (eg aeronautical). Though I wonder if that would change
if instead of sweary trawlermen or the popular music playlists of
teenage nerds, the transmissions were focussed on political dissent.

In the US, dissenters can buy time on 100kW shortwave broadcasters.
They go by pretty much unnoticed.

3824 khz Maritime activity
 

Après mûre réflexion, Rf Probe a écrit :
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

In Europe there's a lot of pirates around 3,4 MHz and fishermen uses
many frequencies out marine band.

Gladiator 2016

3824 khz Maritime activity
 

Brian Gaff wrote:
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?

I had to Google it because it seemed so obvious that 3824 was
in the 80 meter ham band. Anyway, here are the ranges for that band:

3500-3800 Region 1 (Europe,Africa,Middle East,northern Asia)
3500-4000 Region 2 (including USA)
3500-3900 Region 3 (Asia-Pacific)

So 3824 is 80 meter ham band in the Asia-Pacific region and in the
Western Hemisphere. But the Aleutian chain is quite possibly in a
grey zone and the seamen are likely aware of that.

Considered as ham radio activity this 3824 usage is illegal since
no calls are being used. And it is rather obvious that these folks
are unlicensed.

George