I notice most of the boats also have installed AMPS 3 watt phones on the bridge. Soon to not work at all.
I wonder if they have a community repeater or trunking system on Dutch Harbor and surrounding areas. Nate Duehr wrote: > I've been watching that show about crab fishing on the Bering Sea on > Discovery again this year, and have been trying to catch glimpses of > the radios, etc... that they're using. They appear to have some > pretty nice gear, but even with freezing the screens on the TiVo, I > have been unable to figure out what the heck they're using. > > The audio in this latest season sounds very "digital"... in previous > seasons there were shots of those 220 MHz ACSSB SEA radios on the > overheads of the ships above the Captain's heads, but haven't seen > those this year. > > The radios have keypads on the backlit mics, and a couple of shots > seem to show some sort of trunking or simulated trunking or > channelization that includes more than just the standard marine FM > channels, of course... but there's also been times when at least one > boat "overheard" a conversation that was ship to ship that the other > skipper wasn't "expecting them to hear". > > Whatever they're using now seems to have "ship to ship" and "all > call" type communications between the vessels in the particular co-op > that's fishing and filming the show, and then of course there's the > Coast Guard on another analog radio. > > Anyone have any idea what/how these open ocean systems they're using > work. They're 200-300 miles off-shore, so I am assuming satellites > may be involved. > > Kinda neat, but it's driving me nuts trying to figure out what they > are. The camera guys regularly take shots of the GPS when voices > come out of the overhead with the voice-over guy saying, "over the > radio, a call is heard..." ... blah blah blah, the usual goofs for a > TV show... or just taking a picture of something that looks "high- > tech", and the GPS looks like fancy and lit up... so they don't show > the radio that's actually what the skipper is talking on. > > What do all these big fishing vessels use these days, anyway? > Fascinating. > > -- > Nate Duehr, WY0X > >
