ARLA/CLUSTER: IARU Monitoring System: 2012 REP Ms Portuguese Report

[João Gonçalves Costa]

2012 REP Ms Portuguese Report

Last 2012 Year was very busy and grateful on Portuguese Monitoring Team activities.

HF Propagation has been just Fair all over the year, taking into consideration the Solar Cycle and Wx changes emerging all over the
World.

Our Ms Team was enriched with a new Member, CT2IWW, Paulo, which is doing a great job taking care on the Northern part of
Portugal.

OTH radars still interfere and are like a plague in a meadow. Almost all Bands are interfered and sometimes, inside WARC segments,
the BW of signals are occupying a great part of the Band with only one transmission.

It seems some Northern part of Africa operators are doing big 15m SSB QRM on CW segment activities. We shall take it into
consideration and monitoring will be made in the future with better propagation conditions.

There are many discussions and pricking on 7070 kHz, Lower Sideband, between Italian and Portuguese Hams because of pretense
rights over that frequency. It's an old problem with bad attitudes like music, jamming and offences. We hope it will finish in the near
future for the best image of Amateur Radio and the Countries involved.

10m Band is quite calm at moment, but at 1700Z to 1900Z (Trans-Equatorial), we have detected many AM and FM operations from
Brazil between 28000kHz and 28500kHz daily. Some portuguese and spanish fishermen are talking sometimes on these frequencies
too.

There are (buoys ?) transmitting F1B burst group on 28025.0kHz (+/-) with 51 Bd, 300 Hz shift and 28100kHz, F1B, 51 Bd, 320 Hz
shift or 29525.0kHz, transmitting in F1B with 81.9 Bd, 140 Hz shift. ICP-Anacom, the Portuguese Authority for Telecomm is very
active and collaborating with us to detect and stop those intrusions on our 10m Band.

It is with great pleasure we may report that a giant operation was executed by our National Telecom Authority - ICP Anacom
with our Maritime Police during tree days, where were verified 30 fishing boats in Algarve and arrested several Tx/Rx
equipments not authorized for maritime communications and illegally used on Amateur Bands.
Five boats were arrested because they had no valid telecom certification but had equipments working over not permitted
frequencies for the maritime traffic.

The big operation has been carried on December 11, 12 and 13 in Portimão, Albufeira, Lagos and Sagres in Algarve, and our
Anacom is decided to stop the abuse, interference and infringes over several communications services, namely on Amateur
Radiocommunications Bands, by the clearly illegally installed and operated stations inboard of fishing vessels.

After all reports and demerges made, it's a fair very good year-ending for our IARU-R1 Ms in Portugal.

Next 2013, let's do it again !

José Francisco, CT4AN
IARU-R1 Ms Portuguese Coordinator
REP-Ms

Fonte: IARU Monitoring System Newsletter December 2012
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