[K3CAL] Bogus Distress Calls

[James Tetlow]

30 calls in 2 years, thats not really a lot. But the big question is length of time for distress call, and was there a QSO? Hard to triangulate if calls are short. Sounds like man (if not a recorded) is pretty smart on radio TX. Random TX and short QSO. Interesting to speculate.

Sent from my iPad,
Best Regards, 73,
Jim Tetlow

> On Jul 25, 2016, at 09:15, N3AE <n3ae at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> See http://wtop.com/maryland/2016/07/coast-guard-seeks-hoax-caller-whose-maydays-cost-500000-2/ 
> 
> Maybe an opportunity for the amateur radio community to help using Fox Hunting techniques.     I'm not sure what marine frequency such calls would be made on, but if we had enough bearings from QTH's surrounding Annapolis, should be able to get close.
> 
> Begs the question as to if the Coast Guard has asked for assistance by the FCC monitoring site in Columbia.
> 
> Shawn
> N3AE
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________
> K3CAL mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/k3cal
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:K3CAL at mailman.qth.net
> 
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/k3cal/attachments/20160725/e533eab5/attachment.html>