[Milsurplus] FW: Submarine in distress

[Hubert Miller]

I was already aware of this. But upon hearing this again on news tonite, I again had to wonder, why do third-tier countries have submarines?
Is Argentina thinking of the possibility, however remote, of going against the U.K. again, or do they just need the threat? Or is it a prestige item?
Argentina's submarines certainly didn't help them at all in the Falklands War, while a Brit sub did in a devastating attack sink an Argentine battleship.
I can't think of other examples at this moment, but I'm sure I have read of some smaller, even less powerful countries with submarines, and when i
saw those mentioned, I thought, WHY ?? How long would those last in a real war?

A friend forwarded this. I thought the frequencies quite odd, likely this was composed by some sympathizer, not sourced from Argentine Navy. 
600 meter band channels? How long has it been since those were used? 3860.6 kHz ?   I'm sorry, but I think it completely unlikely that some
SWL or ham is going to detect something the U.S. and Argentine navies missed. This was not the famous disappearance of 1937.  

I wonder how the Argentine Navy communicates with its submarines. I did not see any Argentina VLF station listings. 
-Hue 

>This was a message on one of the SDR remote sites I use.

9 Nov 0502z ::ffff:181.166.109.185: ALL RADIO COLLEAGUES AND / OR VESSELS ARE REQUIRED TO BE ATTENDED TO ALL THE FREQUENCIES OF EMERGENCY CALLING BY THE CREW OF THE SUBMARINE "ARA SAN JUAN", WHICH IS UNCOMFORATED SINCE DAY
15/11 / 17
0502z ::ffff:181.166.109.185: Frequencies in TELEPHONY and TELEGRAPH. 2065.0 khz 416 khz 2182.0 khz 437 khz 3023.0 khz 500 khz 3860.6 khz 42395 khz
4125.0 khz 43040 khz 4143.6 khz 84470 khz 6218.6 khz 8528.0 khz PLEASE SHARE / SPREAD