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Fishing Drift Net Beacons / Re: Please post your log details for any West Coast US drift net beacons heard
« on: March 24, 2019, 1657 UTC »
Wow, drift net beacons are definitely pricey pieces of equipment.
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Great idea for a new board. I'm curious if anyone would like to set up a semi regular SSTV net on 40 meters?
QuoteWould you prefer a separate board for these? We already have HF beacons (originally meant to be the "pirate" beacons but ham and other beacons end up here as well) and the 22 meter beacon board. We could create one for the drift net / fishing beacons, and make all three of these sub boards of beacons category. Posts / threads can be moved, so as we find existing drift net beacon posts they can be re-located to the new board.
That sounds like an excellent idea. If we are taking votes on this, then I'm a YES.
Strange Beacons:
(Snipped out and saved big list of frequencies)
Best times to listen are the hours of darkness.
Does any one chase/log/look for the many, mostly or assumed Asian, drift net fishing beacons on 1.7 to 2.6MHz CW which transmit usually on a four minute key off cycle?
They come into Eastern Australia very well in the hours of darkness and there are literally hundreds of them.
Scattered around the vast Pacific Ocean bobbing around sending their low powered (10-25w) call sign every four or so minutes three times I have been logging quite a few.
Does any one else share this interest and if so what do you hear and when?
Are they exclusive to the Pacific or are they also being heard in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions too?
This morning, at 1525 UTC, they are at it again, on 7000 khz LSB, coming in like gangbusters here (100 miles east of the Pacific Ocean) e.g S = 4 and no fades. Besides the "call & response" chanting, there has been intermittent low-fi musical bits included during some of the "response" portions of the activity. Seems to be a fairly good-sized crowd "responding" to the "call" phrase(s) today! I wish we had an Indonesian-speaking resource available to translate some of this material here on the HFU! Signal diminished to S = 3 at 1532 UTC, and the "leader" is taking a break for a two-way QSO with another (?) unheard station. This seems to be a daily routine, based upon my observation over the years!
Osborne White, Engineer
Radio Mysterious Mystic Radio
Aside from HM01 Cuban numbers are there any other voice numbers stations that can be heard in the South Eastern united states? Thanks
In fact, just now at 1512 utc on 11 March 2019, I am hearing them on 7000 khz LSB fairly well with intermittent group traffic, and on 6991 khz LSB, making "testing" monosyllabic noises. The "group" though is on 7000 khz., with repetitive phrases and etc. Based on the accents of the stations speaking, Indonesia is the likely QTH. There is a strong station "leading" the others at ca. S = 3 and numerous "replying" stas. at S = 2 or so, along with at least one voice recorder being used for playback. The din when they "reply" in unison is pretty darned cool!
Osborne White, Engineer
Radio Mysterious Mystic Radio / WMMR
This is most likely the infamous "Indonesian Chanters" that appear frequently on 7000 khz, 6995 khz, 6990 khz, 6985 khz, etc. LSB. I hear them often e.g. four days out of seven on several frequencies most mornings here (100 miles from the Pacific Ocean) from 1500 utc. until they fade out by ca. 1700 utc.
Set up the Palomar VLF converter & TS-520SE to monitor 17.9kc. Lists call it "channel 1". Heard a fairly strong MSK signal show up from 0200 to 0214 UTC 08 March. Similar sounding to NAA, NAU, NRK, etc. Will see what else shows up while I build another Gyrator.