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[pathalogical]

Early this morning 0705z (3:05am ET) I caught an interesting automated broadcast in progress. It sounded like a Missing Vessel Report. It said the vessel was supposed to arrive on May 11 in Australia and that it was a female 55. Then an unusual string of numbers like: 6 billion 235 million.... This is a known marine freq YachtCom - Marine SSB radio | MF frequencies | HF frequencies | SSB Channels | Coastguards frequencies and HF SSB Radiotelephone, Telex and Email Frequencies and Channels This is a first time catch for me, Rx was weak with some fading in/out. Callsigns were mentioned, I'll have to listen to my digicorder again especially for that string of numbers.

Anyone else catch similar broadcasts ? Was it an alert for a missing vessel ?

Thanks

EDIT: The callsigns announced are as they appear in the second link; WLO and KLB followed by "now standing by for calls".
The string of numbers was "...plus 61 billion 262 million 306 thousand 811.

 

[ridgescan]

I heard something like that in December last year one time in the same band, it was an automated female voice with a British accent saying something along that line-but then was followed by a maritime weather report. I was under the impression they were announcing a missing person rather than a vessel though.

 

[brandon]

its WLO Shipcom. I am hearing the same broadcast as we speak.

 

[pathalogical]

its WLO Shipcom. I am hearing the same broadcast as we speak.

You have nice recordings on your site, did ya get this one ?

 

[brandon]

Hey pathalogical :Unfortunately I missed the recording of this one. Thanks for the nice feedback too

 

[Jimepage]

yea u have a cool site brandon

 

[pathalogical]

Heard another broadcast on 6519 usb at 0305z last night June 7/11. Caught the last minute of it as it ended at 0306z. Same type of message about possible cyclone and missing craft (female 55). I'm still curious as to what the billion/million numbers mean.

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