Wicked Tuna
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This is fairly common in the fishing world. You see it on Deadliest Catch as well. And who hasn't heard the Spanish language fishermen or Russian taxi drivers on 10m? Same thing. Does it make it right? No, but being 100+ miles off the coast if it wasn't for the cameras nobody would probably know they were in the ham 2m allocation or military (I think there's a lot of CAP repeaters doing P25 ~148-150mhz) 2m allocation
The USCG has far reaching and 24/7 monitoring capability of all Marine channels, perhaps they are cognizant of this and want to avoid being overheard by the fish cops.
The Coast Guard doesn't monitor all the VHF Marine channels. They are use a handful of the them and with the radio traffic on Channel 16 during the boating season would be hard. Mostly channels 16, 22A and whatever working channel out of 21A, 23A and 83A. There cutters and small boats would have a better chance of being on other channels than the Sectors and Stations.
The Coast Guard doesn't monitor all the VHF Marine channels. They are use a handful of the them and with the radio traffic on Channel 16 during the boating season would be hard. Mostly channels 16, 22A and whatever working channel out of 21A, 23A and 83A. There cutters and small boats would have a better chance of being on other channels than the Sectors and Stations.
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CAP does not have any 2 Meter allocations, they operate within the federal government VHF bands, under NTIA authorization.
CAP has operations from 148-150mhz. 300000/148000=~2m wavelength, hence 2 meters. Does the NTIA supercede the laws of physics?
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Today I was listening to ham radio repeater communication on 146.085. When doing so, I heard adjacent frequency interference so I dialed over to 146.080 and heard fishing boat communication (man those guys can cuss).
Even though I'm inland a ways, it would be my guess the fishing vessels were probably in international waters (off the central coast of California).
https://soundcloud.com/shawninpaso/fishing-boat-comms-on-146080-mhz-jul-1-2018
Even though I'm inland a ways, it would be my guess the fishing vessels were probably in international waters (off the central coast of California).
https://soundcloud.com/shawninpaso/fishing-boat-comms-on-146080-mhz-jul-1-2018
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I hear the same stuff up here in Monterey Bay.
From the information I've been able to glean, I don't think they are necessarily off in international waters. Depth numbers they are calling out are closer to shore.
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