On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:39:31 -0600, N8KDV wrote
(in message ):

If I can hear the fishing boats here in Michigan, you should be able to hear
the fishing boats in the middle of the Great Plains.


You do realize what the next question is?


/Ducking/Gray/


Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

In article , Gray Shockley
writes:


If I can hear the fishing boats here in Michigan, you should be able to
hear
the fishing boats in the middle of the Great Plains.


You do realize what the next question is?



What kinds of fish they catchin' out there in the Great Plains..?

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:15:18 -0600, Diverd4777 wrote
(in message ):

In article , Gray Shockley
writes:


If I can hear the fishing boats here in Michigan, you should be able to
hear
the fishing boats in the middle of the Great Plains.


You do realize what the next question is?



What kinds of fish they catchin' out there in the Great Plains..?



Yep; you betcha.

Watch out for them thar land sharks!

/Gray/

Gray Shockley wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:39:31 -0600, N8KDV wrote
(in message ):

If I can hear the fishing boats here in Michigan, you should be able to hear
the fishing boats in the middle of the Great Plains.


You do realize what the next question is?

The answer is: Land Yachts

I have one parked in the carport, just waiting for warm weather.

Gray Shockley wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:15:18 -0600, Diverd4777 wrote
(in message ):

In article , Gray
Shockley writes:


If I can hear the fishing boats here in Michigan, you should be
able to hear the fishing boats in the middle of the Great Plains.


You do realize what the next question is?



What kinds of fish they catchin' out there in the Great Plains..?



Yep; you betcha.

Watch out for them thar land sharks!

/Gray/

TROUSER TROUT!

"BDK" wrote in message
...

You sure can hear fishing boats where you are, if the bands are open,
even with a simple radio like a 803a. Sometimes signal strength is
pretty high, and they boom in. They use (mostly) "clipped" ham rigs and
can be heard worldwide. I know a guy who used to listen to them in
germany, so you can get them too.

Interesting. Actually, I am not that far from Lake Superior (about 150 miles
southwest of there, in Minnesota) but I'm not sure if the iron ore boats on
the Big Lake are using HF or what. I can check that out further. Thanks.

Jackie

What freqs are you picking up fishing boats? I'm 15 miles from Lake
Michigan ....

In article ,
says...
What freqs are you picking up fishing boats? I'm 15 miles from Lake
Michigan ....




Go to www.wun.com, look up the maritime freqs. The fishing boata are
usually found above or below the "Official" freqs, since they just run
wherever they want to. It's entirely a hit or miss thing. Listen for the
New England accents. And the swearing/threats, etc.

BDK