Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT: Anyone watching Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel?
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Nate Duehr wrote: For those that were interested in this thread, I did find this description on the Wizard's website, I think it was... The FCC required dummy load seems rather odd/interesting. * FCC required dummy load Necessary for testing equipment per GROL. -- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer. -- Henry Kissinger
Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT: Anyone watching Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel?
Wonder if any of them are on Sailmail? Probably no time for that... Nate Duehr wrote: On May 20, 2007, at 12:57 PM, 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. For those that were interested in this thread, I did find this description on the Wizard's website, I think it was... The FCC required dummy load seems rather odd/interesting. - Communication Equipment * Stephens Engineering, model SEA 322, HF/SSB single side band transceiver * Stephens Engineering, model SEA 222, HF/SSB single side band transceiver * Standard, VHF band radio transceiver * Standard Horizon, VHF band radio transceiver with distress call switch * Intech “Mariner” watch receiver, 2182 kHz monitor and alarm * Aiphone, model TA-12F Ships intercom system * JRC, model NCR-300A NavTex transceiver * Raytheon, model RAY 410, loudhailer * Motorola Inmarsat satellite communication transceiver * FCC required dummy load * Call-Com SWR meter * Honeywell tone generator model TG 502A * Computer based communications software with an IBM “ThinkPad” model 760ED computer, Star model NX-1000II dot matrix printer and a Thrane and Thrane Standard C satellite communications modem. * Argos VMS vessel position transmitter -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [Repeater-Builder] OT: Anyone watching Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel?
I’m assuming that they are using FM Marine Band radios (and we all know what happens when we assume, don’t we? wink)… They look similar to those I’ve seen on the bridges of the various casino boats on which I’ve worked. Plus, I hold a MROP (Marine Radio Operator Permit) and that is what’s “suggested for use”, along with the SSB stuff for ocean-going vessels. My guess is you won’t see a frequency, but rather a 2-digit display for the marine channel they’re operating on at the time… The keypad allows direct entry for the channel number. Mark – N9WYS I also did some searching, and below is what I found. Given there are 747 active licenses in the FCC database and I was trying to remember ship names from memory, I may have not gotten all the ships correct… but this is all I cold find. Ship Name License Link DEFINACE HYPERLINK http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=1552630http:/ /wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=1552630 MAVERICKHYPERLINK http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=1536220http:/ /wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=1536220 CORNELIA MARIE HYPERLINK http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=2847001http:/ /wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=2847001 _ From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don KA9QJG Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 10:13 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] OT: Anyone watching Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel? Sorry to add the Post But Everyone is in Dayton I hope having a Great Time Great Show and one of the Most Dangerous Jobs on the World, Now I don’t complain to Much about the Price of Crab Legs . I did a Little Research at the FCC Site Under Ship Lic in Alaska HYPERLINK http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/reports7/state_sv.cfm?state_select=AKservice_se lect=SHhttp://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/reports7/state_sv.cfm?state_select=AKser vice_select=SH I came up with 141 Pages, I searched Using the Captains Name on the Boats on the Show according to the Web Site HYPERLINK http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1022674/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1022674/ The Captains Play Themselves Sig Hansen Phil Harris Jonathan Hillstrand Blake Painter I did not Find any of them, But the Lic could be in some other name, I did Find reference to http://www.inmarsat.com/ A Satellite Communications Company. I would assume other the required communications They would be using Encrypted to keep a Secret among Themselves where they are catching crabs. Great Show and Investigation Continues Don KA9QJG No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.6/814 - Release Date: 5/21/2007 2:01 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.6/814 - Release Date: 5/21/2007 2:01 PM
[Repeater-Builder] OT: Anyone watching Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel?
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
Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT: Anyone watching Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel?
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
Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT: Anyone watching Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel?
New? It's in Season 3. :-) GREAT show! I like the season 1 episodes where they were talking on the Kenwood TR-7950/30. I never got a chance to see what frequency it was on (if they showed it). Joe M. 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 Yahoo! Groups Links
RE: [Repeater-Builder] OT: Anyone watching Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel?
Sorry to add the Post But Everyone is in Dayton I hope having a Great Time Great Show and one of the Most Dangerous Jobs on the World, Now I don't complain to Much about the Price of Crab Legs . I did a Little Research at the FCC Site Under Ship Lic in Alaska http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/reports7/state_sv.cfm?state_select=AKservice_sel ect=SH I came up with 141 Pages, I searched Using the Captains Name on the Boats on the Show according to the Web Site http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1022674/ The Captains Play Themselves Sig Hansen Phil Harris Jonathan Hillstrand Blake Painter I did not Find any of them, But the Lic could be in some other name, I did Find reference to http://www.inmarsat.com/ A Satellite Communications Company. I would assume other the required communications They would be using Encrypted to keep a Secret among Themselves where they are catching crabs. Great Show and Investigation Continues Don KA9QJG
