Bob wrote:

On ham freq 14300...right now.

Bob/WF3H

14399... You'd think these guys running this net would have asked the
fellow all the pertinent info at the beginning. Seems the Coast Guard
wants to know what the vessels port of departure and destination were.

Suspicious is that as soon as they told the guy that his lat/lon didn't
match his reported position he was no longer to be heard from.

N8KDV wrote:

Bob wrote:

On ham freq 14300...right now.

Bob/WF3H

Make that 14299....



14399... You'd think these guys running this net would have asked the
fellow all the pertinent info at the beginning. Seems the Coast Guard
wants to know what the vessels port of departure and destination were.

Suspicious is that as soon as they told the guy that his lat/lon didn't
match his reported position he was no longer to be heard from.

N8KDV wrote:

Bob wrote:

On ham freq 14300...right now.

Bob/WF3H

Crap! I can't even get on frequency! 14300




14399... You'd think these guys running this net would have asked the
fellow all the pertinent info at the beginning. Seems the Coast Guard
wants to know what the vessels port of departure and destination were.

Suspicious is that as soon as they told the guy that his lat/lon didn't
match his reported position he was no longer to be heard from.

My humble DX394 had it at 14299.1 . I too copied that coast guard
wanted his location because it was not jiving .

"N8KDV" wrote in message
...


N8KDV wrote:

Bob wrote:

On ham freq 14300...right now.

Bob/WF3H

Crap! I can't even get on frequency! 14300




14399... You'd think these guys running this net would have asked the
fellow all the pertinent info at the beginning. Seems the Coast Guard
wants to know what the vessels port of departure and destination were.

Suspicious is that as soon as they told the guy that his lat/lon didn't
match his reported position he was no longer to be heard from.

Hear him here in NYC ( Garbled . . )

In article .net, "Maximus"
writes:


My humble DX394 had it at 14299.1 . I too copied that coast guard
wanted his location because it was not jiving .

"N8KDV" wrote in message
...


N8KDV wrote:

Bob wrote:

On ham freq 14300...right now.

Bob/WF3H

Crap! I can't even get on frequency! 14300




14399... You'd think these guys running this net would have asked the
fellow all the pertinent info at the beginning. Seems the Coast Guard
wants to know what the vessels port of departure and destination were.

Suspicious is that as soon as they told the guy that his lat/lon didn't
match his reported position he was no longer to be heard from.

Diverd4777 wrote:

Hear him here in NYC ( Garbled . . )

Said vessel (or hoaxer) has not been on the frequency for over an hour.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

In article , N8KDV - - as I said, garbled
.., .. . ..

another good " God Knows What " catch...


writes:


Said vessel (or hoaxer) has not been on the frequency for over an hour.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

Diverd4777 wrote:

In article , N8KDV - - as I said, garbled
., .. . ..

another good " God Knows What " catch...


The guy was there, but after one of the hams came on after consulting with the
Coast Guard and finding out from them that his lat/lon did not match his stated
position (the lat/lon that he gave would have put him north of San Antonio I
believe) asked the sailing vessel 'Raven' what his port of departure was and port
of destination. No response. The guy must have heard that his posit did not
match.

One ham came up a few minutes later and said it was suspicious that he gave a
'marine callsign' that did not match any known type of 'marine callsign'.

Another thing is that during of his last transmissions, the vessel Raven stated
he was at 9 volts, one of the hams later on said the transceiver probably was not
capable of running at nine volts. So the vessel operator might have been faking
that. His transmission sounded normal here.

So, kinda suspicious at any rate. BUT the Coast Guard has a Falcon jet out
looking, and there is a CG cutter in the vicinity.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B