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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: IraqVet on June 01, 2014, 0249 UTC
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Please be patient with my newby ignorance here. I've been DXing on and off for around fifteen years and never actually came across the term "pesky" or "pestador".
I've tried through my own deduction to narrow it down. I'm guessing LSB Ham operators from Mexico?
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A pescadore is a fisherman, and some of the Spanish traffic heard in the funny band might be fishermen; most of it most likely is not.
The term pescadore appears in many mutations in the posts, depending on the listener's frustrations with them.
Feel free to invent your own!
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I am no language expert, but I've seen it written that a lot of them speak Portuguese. I don't know exactly what this means.
Years ago it was possible to actually identify individual pesques; there was one guy in particular who would get on the air and whistle distinctively, and then converse with someone whom I was never able to hear, in Spanish. It was said that he was a Mexican fisherman, and this was his way of making contact with his wife and family on shore. Having only rudimentary Spanish skills, I don't know the truth of this.
A pescadore is a fisherman, and some of the Spanish traffic heard in the funny band might be fishermen; most of it most likely is not.
The term pescadore appears in many mutations in the posts, depending on the listener's frustrations with them.
Feel free to invent your own!
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There is also a "Pescadore preacher" heard on 8989usb. I have seen speculation that this guy is from Nicaragua but I don't know. He preaches for a while in Spanish & then QSO's with some of the fishing boats. I haven't heard him in a while but when I did hear him it was around 23:00 UTC
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Sometimes I hear the Spanish speaking ones just below the 40 meter ham band during late afternoons from my QTH here in the PNW.
Early mornings I hear the ones from SE Asia if conditions are in -- not sure how many of them are fishermen, or just bootleg ham operators -- including those chanting people.
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Some of the ones who speak a English based creole are Nicaraguan and Honduran Garifuna fisherman communicating with each other and their on-shore ports.
You'll hear what passes for the Nicaraguan Coast Guard, normally in the fall. The main base I hear is the one in Bluefields.
More than a few of the "fisherman" along that stretch of the Caribbean are indeed pirates. They make a living hijacking cocaine boats and selling the contents to Central American gangs that bring it north.