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Default Best Handheld VHF?


Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 12 Dec 2005 05:23:36 -0800, wrote:


Bill McKee wrote:

The CG has a higher antenna and better receivers?


A friend of my brother's who lives close to the PA-NY border built a
Beverage Antenna on his hill, and can receive CG transmissions from Key
West, FL!!


What frequency?


Response from the person owning the antenna:
It's 8.983 MHZ and it's the upper sideband (SSB). They use several
different freqs across the shortwave bands, but this one seems to be
used the most; the base is in Chesapeake Bay; usually you hear
aircraft on routine patrol but once in a great while it gets
interesting. I also hear aircraft and cutters off puerto rico quite a
bit.