[aprssig] Clueless HF Beacon Received!

[Steve Noskowicz]

>From his web site:
http://www.sailblogs.com/member/zs1ta/

Looks like he has a commercial locator system as well:
http://shiptrak.org/?callsign=ZS1TA&filter=60

--
 73, Steve, K9DCI   USN (Vet) MOT (Ret) Ham (Yet)




--- On Thu, 8/12/10, Stephen H. Smith <wa8lmf2 at aol.com> wrote:

> From: Stephen H. Smith <wa8lmf2 at aol.com>
> Subject: [aprssig] Clueless HF Beacon Received!
> To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at tapr.org>
> Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 10:14 PM
>  I have been seeing this station turn
> up (direct) on my 30-meter HF receive setup in Los Angeles
> the last several nights.
> 
> 19:59:41R ZS1TA-9>APRS,WIDE1-1,WIDE Port=2 <UI C
> Len=21>:
> /025932h/N at o&5bqKY[?_
> 
> 
> Assuming the beacon IS valid, he is a sailboat in the
> Pacific about 900 miles west of the coast of Ecuador.
> 
> [ Time is local time Pacific Daylight Time.  VOAprop
> DOES suggest that 30 meters should be reasonably open to
> that part of the world from here at this time.]
> 
> 1)    What is he doing expecting the path with
> WIDEn-N to do on HF???
> 
> 2)    I wonder how many local WIDE1-1 fill-in
> digis he is encountering on the high seas of the Pacific?
> 
> 
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