No subject

Looks like he has a commercial locator system as well:
http://shiptrak.org/?callsign=3DZS1TA&filter=3D60

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 73, Steve, K9DCI   USN (Vet) MOT (Ret) Ham (Yet)




--- On Thu, 8/12/10, Stephen H. Smith <wa8lmf2 at aol.com> wrote:

> From: Stephen H. Smith <wa8lmf2 at aol.com>
> Subject: [aprssig] Clueless HF Beacon Received!
> To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at tapr.org>
> Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 10:14 PM
>  I have been seeing this station turn
> up (direct) on my 30-meter HF receive setup in Los Angeles
> the last several nights.
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> 19:59:41R ZS1TA-9>APRS,WIDE1-1,WIDE Port=3D2 <UI C
> Len=3D21>:
> /025932h/N at o&5bqKY[?_
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> Assuming the beacon IS valid, he is a sailboat in the
> Pacific about 900 miles west of the coast of Ecuador.
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> [ Time is local time Pacific Daylight Time.=A0 VOAprop
> DOES suggest that 30 meters should be reasonably open to
> that part of the world from here at this time.]
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> 1)=A0 =A0 What is he doing expecting the path with
> WIDEn-N to do on HF???
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> 2)=A0 =A0 I wonder how many local WIDE1-1 fill-in
> digis he is encountering on the high seas of the Pacific?
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