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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: ThaDood on December 20, 2021, 1855 UTC
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https://swling.com/blog/2021/12/guest-post-an-introduction-to-dxing-the-mf-marine-bands/ Been a while since I've checked-out the Marine MW band. I still have a couple of radios with that band listed on them.
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It's a fun band, I often will pick up coastal stations in the winter (including recently) just above the MW band in the 17xx kHz range, while looking for pirates.
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Thanks to ThaDood for very interesting information!
Marine radio base stations have largely disappeared from the air, replaced by satellite technology.
Only weather stations are left to please our ears!
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Back when infotec m600s roamed the earth you could always find some poor ruskii trawler to copy hours of sitor messages from, even in the poorest propagation. Now it's just wx and notams to listen to.
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I was surprised to hear USCG doing a transmitter check on 2182 this morning. He was too fast to catch which station it was ("transmitter 13") but definitely wasn't Canadian. Didn't the USCG give up watching 2182 back around 2013? Heard on Chris's 500ft beverage SDR, that set-up is outstanding, thanks for keeping it going!