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Loggings => Utility => Topic started by: Matt285 on February 05, 2019, 1431 UTC

Title: Phone patches
Post by: Matt285 on February 05, 2019, 1431 UTC
Does anyone every hear Phone patches on HF anymore? I remember hearing some about 15 years ago, but I've been away from SWL for a bit. If so what frequencies are typically used? Thanks
Title: Re: Phone patches
Post by: Pigmeat on February 05, 2019, 1602 UTC
The last one I head was a guy on an oil rig in that time period talking to his girlfriend on and off for roughly a three week period. Problem was his wife was listening in, too. Darn those cheap sw portables!

That was about the same time period you're talking about. They were in the 6280-6290 range.
Title: Re: Phone patches
Post by: sat_dxer on February 05, 2019, 1648 UTC
Problem is how did you know his wife was listening in  :-X
Title: Re: Phone patches
Post by: R4002 on February 05, 2019, 1805 UTC
The last one I head was a guy on an oil rig in that time period talking to his girlfriend on and off for roughly a three week period. Problem was his wife was listening in, too. Darn those cheap sw portables!

That was about the same time period you're talking about. They were in the 6280-6290 range.

They seem to still be active in Latin America, I've heard them in the 6600-6900 kHz range and other places, mixed in with freebanders/outbanders.  6790 kHz and other 67xx frequencies seem to the most popular.  I've heard several QSOs (in Spanish) that sounded like a husband talking to his wife about domestic matters, have even heard the children talking to the husband in the same QSO.  Hard to say if they're "true" phone patches or jury-rigged deals (somebody holding the mic up to a landline telephone somewhere, etc).
Title: Re: Phone patches
Post by: Matt285 on February 05, 2019, 1815 UTC
Typo- Every=Ever
Thanks for your replies. The last time I heard one it was between a man and his assumed spouse. Just standard domestic conversation kids, health, bills etc.
Title: Re: Phone patches
Post by: Pigmeat on February 05, 2019, 1817 UTC
The guys on the rig let the girlfriend know about it later when she kept calling for him.

I wonder if the guys on the rig were angling for phone patch sex and the girlfriend wouldn't play?

I couldn't believe the two of them were so open about it while it was going on? You had to be able to hear them from Greenland to Guyana.
Title: Re: Phone patches
Post by: sat_dxer on February 05, 2019, 2121 UTC
The guys on the rig let the girlfriend know about it later when she kept calling for him.

I wonder if the guys on the rig were angling for phone patch sex and the girlfriend wouldn't play?

I couldn't believe the two of them were so open about it while it was going on? You had to be able to hear them from Greenland to Guyana.

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