Click here: Cruise Ship and Maritime Monitoring
Above is a useful website for any radioman taking a cruise. Ship 457/467
repeater freqs as well as VHF FM & other radio data updated regularly. While
new
ships have and older ships are being retrifitted with cell/pcs/2.4/5.8 gig
comms, the most interesting comms remain on VHF FM and 457/467 repeaters.
FWIW, based on our travels,
Some ships are electrically noisier than others. It's annoying on AM but
can be mostly nulled by pointing receiver around. Loops again vital here.
Carnival Inspiration sails from Tampa, IIRC, sister ship is the Fascination.
Only
noise noted on that ship was vicinity of lights string bow to stern along ship
axis. Surprisingly good reception is possible in cabins w/porthole & always
good topside in a lounge chair.
Every now and then, some but not all ship radars will give you the
zzzzzhhhiiiieeettt, audible on the receiver, as they rotate past your qth. Not
much of a
problem, moving to another chair cures it.
Other lines sailing from Tampa are Celebrity, all of whose ships are
blissfully RF-quiet.
Newer vintage NCL ships are a bit heavy on white noise particularly on BCB.
LF band is free of it, & it diminishes rapidly as one tunes upwards into HF.
PV
Zecchino
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