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WA5VQM
09-26-2006, 01:52 AM
Hearing some spanish USB on 7000.7 right now. Don't sound like hams.
Hmmm.
Quote[/b] (WA5VQM @ Sep. 25 2006,18:52)]Hearing some spanish USB on 7000.7 right now. Don't sound like hams.
Hmmm.
Could be fishing vessels...Mexican hams (who have voice privilegs in that area)...etc.
You speak Spanish at all?
Head to 3416, 3422 and thereabouts - give a listen - and tell me whatizzit...
ai4ep
09-26-2006, 02:34 AM
http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif will pig latin do ? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
KA4DPO
09-26-2006, 03:03 AM
OOTBAY OOGERLAYS? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
WA5VQM
09-26-2006, 01:28 PM
Well, that figures. The moment I post here they go QRT.
Have to agree, I think they were fishing vessels. I know just enough spanish to know it wasn't the usual ham QSO. Also they were USB not LSB.
Quote[/b] (WA5VQM @ Sep. 26 2006,06:28)]Well, that figures. The moment I post here they go QRT.
Have to agree, I think they were fishing vessels. I know just enough spanish to know it wasn't the usual ham QSO. Also they were USB not LSB.
I was discussing this very subject with a gent from Mexico - on another radio-related board.
Seems that their fishing vessels do indeed use the 80-40-20-15M bands, or operate just outside of them. The Mexican government tends not to enforce their various R & R's, either.
Give a listen from 6900-7000 some evening. That area is literally jammed with such communications at times.