Pescadores - there's plenty of official and even more out-of-band chatter between 6200-7000 audible throughout the Americas, mostly Spanish and English but occasionally in other languages depending on who's off the coast and which coast is nearest you. Some are designated maritime freqs, some aren't. There's also a designated freq between 6950-7000 (don't recall which at the moment) used by Mexico for maritime weather and occasionally Spanish language voice announcements and CW can be heard there.
If you search the logs here and elsewhere, including those for numbers, utilities and unidentified signals you'll find plenty of frequencies to monitor for transmissions other than pirates.
Here in Texas pretty much all I ever hear on or near 6900 is pescadores and unid data. Occasionally I'll catch a weak carrier for a pirate station but it's usually buried by other signals presumably coming from the Gulf or south of the border. Likewise fairly frequent Spanish language QSOs between 6925-6930 tend to QRM pirate stations operating in that popular frequency range.
Back in 2007 I heard a couple of broadcasts between 6955-6970 that sounded like professionally done radio talk shows in either Spanish or Portuguese, but in USB so presumably not official broadcasts from Mexico or S. America (although I suppose it's possible they may run USB only as does AFN here in the U.S. on 7811 and 5446.5 USB).
You might also hear an AM station around 6973 - Galei Zahal from Israel. It's often mistaken for a pirate. Used to come in strongly here but I haven't heard them well since early or mid 2010.
Topic: a few lost hams in spanish on 6970 USB (Read 1421 times)
