[IRCA] Check out Cruise Ship and Maritime Monitoring

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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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