On 1/10/2016 3:46 AM, Brian Gaff wrote

Yes, in Europe, I've heard this sort of thing all the way up to 3.4Mhz.
Many are in French around 3.2Mhz.
The English speaking ones are just apparently people on all kind of
ships and boats and often their accents are northern England and lots
of swearing.
I doubt if its legal, but on the other hand, does it really do any harm

Does it do any harm?

If you are a licensed user of the frequency and the unlicensed ones are
jamming the legal users, that could easily be construed as "doing harm".

It comes down to laws versus anarchy.