What is it with fishermen? :)

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What is it with fishermen? :)

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I have been listening to a conversation at 8297 between two guys for 10 minutes.
Do EVERY sentence have to contain three F-words or is two enough? {bnghd}
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Depends on if the caught two or three *Fish*. Could be worse :)
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If my knackers were freezing in the north sea, I'd be using choice language. :lol:
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This 8.297 freq.. official fishing freq or as per usual random selected freq out off 0-30 mhz ?!!!
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gmham wrote:This 8.297 freq..
It is a maritime HF channel for simplex comms.

In case people are interested in receiving maritime HF-frequencies, here you will find more info.
https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/doc/rtchan.txt
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Ok cheers not like them to stick to the designated freqs is it ???!!!
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They probably forget they are not on a private frequency lol
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rogerbeep wrote:
gmham wrote:This 8.297 freq..
It is a maritime HF channel for simplex comms.

In case people are interested in receiving maritime HF-frequencies, here you will find more info.
https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/doc/rtchan.txt

A link from 1999 !
Lot has changed since then
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Stuart King 007 wrote:
rogerbeep wrote:
gmham wrote:This 8.297 freq..
It is a maritime HF channel for simplex comms.

In case people are interested in receiving maritime HF-frequencies, here you will find more info.
https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/doc/rtchan.txt

A link from 1999 !
Lot has changed since then
Please feel free to highlight the changes :thumbup:
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They are generally Gentlemen of Celtic origin and most verbs they use are of an anatomic nature.
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Admiral wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 08:19 They are generally Gentlemen of Celtic origin and most verbs they use are of an anatomic nature.
Hey, Enough of that or you'll get the sweeny todd treatment, And i don't mean you'll get to drive a mark one granada whilst wearing brown flares ;)
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Fffk knows!
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