Jeff Seale wrote:

UJ wrote:
1230 UTC all this week on 6.230 and 6.214. Good, clean signal on my
Sony 2010. Nautical related reports to a home base (what's the weather
doing? How many on board? roger roger. roger that.)
They sound like Cajuns, most likely somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico.

Brady

FYI:
6.230 MHz is a simplex frequency (ITU Ch. 653)
6.214 MHz is a defunct shore station, might be WLO/KLB now (ITU Ch. 606)
6.214 MHz is also a distress/calling frequency

I think you may mean 6215... which is #606

For duplex in some parts of the world it is paired with 6516.

Listening to the fishermen brought another story to mind.

As I recall, Arthur Godfrey liked to listen in to the telephone calls that
were broadcast on the marine frequencies.

It seems as though he may have had two ICOM R70 or R71 receivers that he used
for doing that.

There used to be a lot of interesting calls made, and it was a lot of fun
listening to them. But it seems as though that type of stuff has gone to the
satellites these days.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

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