[MilCom] Help with ID Please

[Ed Langworthy]

I would like to thank everyone for their emails.

The most common answer I received is that it was probably 
pirates from South America using military SATCOM communications.
I was able to get a recording of it and my wife tried to translate some of
it as she knows a little Spanish.  End result, it sounded like a few people
in the conversation just shooting the breeze talking about everyday things.

Thanks for all the help.

Ed Langworthy
Scarborough, ME


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Langworthy" <jetcrafter at verizon.net>
To: "Milcom" <MilCom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:15 PM
Subject: [MilCom] Help with ID Please


> Hi all,
> 
> I had a scanner searching UHF milair and it kept locking up on
> 255.550 but I couldn't make out the comms until I switched to
> NFM mode.  Then I could hear the comms fine but it is some
> people talking in a foreign language.  Sounds like Spanish.
> 
> I thought I may be getting some kind of shortwave interference
> on the scanner so I tried that freq on four different scanners and it 
> is received on ALL of them which rules out a scanner specific image.
> 
> Does anyone know who may be using 255.550 NFM with
> Spanish sounding accents??  Could it possibly be a ship off the
> coast of Maine?  I will try to get some voice on an mp3 to help 
> with an ID.
> 
> Ed Langworthy
> Scarborough, ME
>