<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>If they were on <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">161.975 or 162.025 then you hearing the maritime AIS</span><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); "></span>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Paulo T" <newarroja@hotmail.com><br>To: aprssig@tapr.org<br>Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 8:32:07 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>Subject: [aprssig] Off band packet activitity (slightly OT)<br><br>
Dear friends,<br><br>I found what I beliece to be an off-band packt activity, in the marine band in CT land and all over the coast.<br><br>After looking around and talking with some local ops, we are inclined to believe that these trasnmissions, in the 161 mhz segment, belong to some kinf of marine buoy network.<br><br>The tx's are like this:<br><br> 1:Fm xxxx To CQ <UI pid=F0 Len=80 >[16:56:26]<br>Y~}TM]aCbOAHFPKMb}@n~DzAr_lh|tWChkC@pGPCFCp^jcy_sI~_WFhOll@lGMVA@ygijjf<br><br>I changed the original callsign, since we think that this is some kind of official use :)<br><br>I did research a bit with google and found out that there are indeed many buoy designs that use VHF packet as their method of data transmission<br><br>Does anyone here have a better clue of what this might be and how could one see (decode) the garbled text?<br><br>For us, this has become a "summer mistery to be solved while on the beach"<br><br>Any help would be apreciated and my apologies in advance if this is somehow off-topic for the list.<br><br>73's<br><br>Paulo<br><br> <br><hr>Hotmail: Correio Electrónico Poderoso e Gratuito com segurança Microsoft. <a href="https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969" target="_blank">Obtenha-o já.</a>
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