Comments by "knoxieman" (@knoxieman) on "Ringway Manchester"
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Cracking fun video mate, these hams went to way too much trouble with all the money on jammers when all you need is a pin and a pair of pliers ha ha, a fellow I used to work with had nightmare neighbours really really bad ones, at night he would sneak outside and drift a pin right through the coax of their TV and Satellite cables and cut them flush, (shorting inner to outer) with a pair of cutters, the sky engineer never being too bright or having enough time to check where the fault was would simply change the cable out, then a few days later he would do it again, they also used to like to play loud music in the morning all the time and they had a garden pond pump wired back to the house, so my mate wired in a remote control switch that would short the earth to neutral inside the pump terminal box and trip the RCD in the house, so if he wanted a lie in he would just get his missus to keep hitting the switch! ha ha great eh!! ha ha he's now moved house.
Superb video, my TV jammer was so much fun, must do a video on that at some point.
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Great video as usual mate, glad its not just me that parks up at radio masts and films :-) apart from the Drone video you posted have you ever been stopped and asked why you are filming? whilst doing our long range wifi tests a few years back the police stopped me twice and came to my house a 3rd time and this was before all the terror incidents.
They must be even more sensitive about it now, even though what I was doing was legal I have to admit, me stood next to my car with a satellite dish on a tripod, a laptop open on the roof of the car and me on my 2m HT flashing a large 2,000 candle power torch in to the distance might have looked odd to some people LOL, we managed to get off the shelf wifi routers to transmit and receive 18 miles line of sight!! amazing stuff, all with home made LNBS , bit of copper wire and some circuit board, just amazing how many wifi points we picked up along the trip with no security, for fun i logged on to someones wireless printer who was a few miles away and printed "your networks not secure" on the printer! ha ha great fun we had.
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Awesome!! as you well know I was fascinated by this in my early youth and used to build and repair the transmitters from time to time, amazing fun, never hear them these days, it was a job to get many listeners back in the day, you had to fly poster or hand out flyers in pubs and even then it was sparse, people do radio online these days, there is so much competition for ears and eyes now you have to make it pretty special if you are going to launch a pirate station, the way society is clamping down on free speech though I can see it making a comeback, you would probably have to operate off a boat like radio Caroline, comedy and edgy/offensive comedy might be the only way for that to be aired the way we are going.
Great video, looking forward to the next one.
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Baofeng know their market and this will sell well to the cosplay, Airsoft, paintball community, at a fraction of the cost of the other Harris replicas it's actually very good value, I'm surprised that Baofeng haven't just done that anyway as the Chinese market place is already awash with clones.
Good display of weapons there as well, those air soft balls smart a little don't they, does that knife have a needle and thread in the handle? I had a knife as a kid similar to that 😂 I was 11 I think, used to have that on 1 side of my belt and a cammo water cantina on the other, used to wear a scrim scarf, an Eastern German army jacket, old pair of boots and go round the garden popping tin cans.
Great review, more of the same please and more weapons, maybe you could show us more you savage 😂👍
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Super job, its always nice when people take the time and spend money to send things like this, my dads mate Brian worked for Nortel and they had loads of Rabbit gear back in the day, he used to take calls on it when he visited, this was before mobile phones were a thing, he used to take calls whilst we were having an evening meal ha ha I always thought it funny, my mum wasnt impressed ha ha, crikey that must have been nearly 30 years ago now, he also used another phone around that time as well, by 1994 though mobiles had well and truly taken off, I got my first mobile phone in the summer of 1994, still have it, a Motorola flip phone.
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Really good video mate (I am up late its 2 in the morning!!) funny you showed the laughing policeman, when I first got my licence in 1990 I used to hear him on the Coventry repeater, he used to talk in a really high pitched punch and judy type voice and wind people up, ill be honest I thought he was funny and it was the harsh reactions he got from licensed amateurs that were even funnier, most of my mates that were hams at the time most of them much older than me thought the laughing policeman was funny.
There were some nasty incidents in that time though with repeaters being torched and home made keying devices left in fields near repeaters with the sole purpose of jamming the repeaters, I heard of plenty of cases of hams being targeted by annoyed neighbours with bad TV signals hammering nails in to coax and cutting it of flush so it would short the cable out but not be seen.
As naughty as I got was the first time I read the RSGB manual in 1984 I noticed a wide band oscillator circuit using a BFY90 transistor, me and my nerdy buddies (think stranger things...yes we were just like that) built these little oscillators and went on to have hours of fun annoying neighbours and friends by blanking out their TV pictures, the best fun we had was pretending to buy TV sets from shops and switching these things on and off in our pockets and banging the top of the set to make out they were faulty!! ha ha pretty harmless but lots of fun and that's what got me in to amateur radio.
I was also an original CB radio user in 1981, my dads mate used to visit with an AM cb in his car and a DB27 antenna, I thought this was so cool, i used to knock on peoples doors if they had an antenna on the house and ask if I could see their setup, can you imagine any mum letting their kid do that now? ha ha loved my CB years so happy I lived through that era.
I also built many pirate radio transmitters in the early 90s some of which I still have (and must do a video on), the first time I tested the radio out in a cold oxfordshire field in the late eighties and stood there holding a 4 foot floursecent tube in my hand and it lit up like a light saber when I held it near the home made dipole I made out of welding rods i was hooked!! I still think some part of radio is like voodoo ha ha.
I must do another video soon!!
take care mate :-)
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Great video, years ago you had to produce your licence before you could buy transmitters here in the UK but that was relaxed and now anyone can get hold of any kind of transmitter including pirate radio transmitters and transmit where they like, this situation hasnt improved with the ease of access to powerful cheap Chinese radios that me and you help to promote although I say that with a caveat that we do at least encourage people to program them on to the PMR bands if they are going to use them.
Many of the super cheap radios like the Baofeng 888 are in reality only 1 watt or twice as powerful as the best PMR radios and I would bet most of the time are used responsibly when being operated on the PMR frequencies, id think it very rare anyone has been prosecuted for using a none certified radio on PMR and I dont know any amateurs who dont own one or more cheap chinese radios and all of them have PMR programmed in to the memory channels, you only have to look at youtube to see that.
Its the same thing I get on my electric bike, well you know thats illegal> your bike will do 30mph and is over 10 times the legal limit, in 20 years or riding ive never had any problems because the bike is well maintained, I follow the rules of the road and am sensible, if you apply the same practice with cheap chinese radios you can use them on PMR and you wont ever have any problems what so ever, I dont condone people doing it but I would much rather they do that than use them out of the box and just transmit anywhere.
Anyway good video sir, have a jolly nice weekend, im expecting a xmas market vlog very soon :-)
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Great video as usual mate, interesting that the radio is using a single 18650 cell there, not seen that done before and means you should be able to easily replace the battery in the future, if you install the aliexpress app on your phone you can get these delivered to the UK for £10 each! that's a flipping amazing price, I have just ordered 4 of them off the back of seeing this video, not heard of Zastone but have seen they sell re-badged versions of other makes.
Be interesting to see if the voice scrambler works, i am going to guess it is the voice inversion type as used on other cheap radios, might be useful if you want some simple privacy, lately when out and about we have been mainly using the WLN-KD-C1 primarily for their size, amazing audio quality and ease of charging, I see that Zastone sell a re-badged version of them too.
I look forward to seeing part 2 of this video, shipping via ali express typically takes 2-3 weeks so hope to see it before my radios arrive.
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@normaneustice1112 The ability to read and send morse code is not a requirement for the proficient and proper setup and use of HF radio equipment and hasnt been for 50 years or more, its a skill im not denying that and it does have its uses but was always a stupid distinction between a Class A and B licence holder, also because there was still snobbery back then from people who all they had done over a Class B licence holder was learn Morse Code and this has now propagated to the current climate now where novice licence holders are treated like pariahs, its no wonder these kids drop out of the hobby, they get their callsign, nobody speaks to them and when they do they get told their affordable Chinese radio is a pile of crap and they should be buying Kenwood, Yaesu, Icom etc.
I also find people that make comments like yours on here never make their own content either, just troll other peoples hard work out of nothing better to do, you Trolled Lewis and got found out, if it were intended as a joke you would have augmented the comment with an emoji or deleted it, read it again and tell how that comment could be interpreted any other way especially by someone who doesnt know you.
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Spent many a Sunday afternoon running around cannock chase in the early 70s its a lovely place, a very good contact from there as well, there isn't a lot wrong with these cheap Chinese handhelds, I kept a GT3 in my car for 2 years got it out the other day the battery was still well charged, they are amazing at holding a charge,
Really fun video too although your are braver than me and dont either of you own a hat? ha ha or gloves? Good attempt with the drone, Im going to pop back up to the TV transmitter in my last video and get some aerial shots of it at some point.
Ive spent the weekend charging up and sorting out all my handholds, need to get a system sorted whereby I charge and use them in rotation, I only just saved the battery in my Icom IC-E92D as it hadnt been charged for a year or so and wouldn't take a charge, charging through the radio via the DC in jack saved the day as it wouldn't charge off the base (flashing orange light), that would have been 80 quid to replace else!
Looking forward to more videos soon
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Knew so many people who worked at Talkland in Banbury, got my first phone from them a Motorola flip phone back in 1994, still have it, my mate Lloyd who gave me the cb tape his missus worked there for years, I'll ask her if she has any stuff left from her time there, they were a big employer here, the offices are still there and I think were made for them at the time, not far from here about 4 miles away, one of my mates who was having phone problems with them turned up at the offices and stood outside with the phone taped to a brick and threatened to throw it through the window if they didn't give him his money back 😂 they did as well, he literally told the girl in the office to go look out the window, to be fair they were a good company, my mates always joked with me that I could never mess my missus about calling my bit on the side because my mates missus would know 😂 I should of done as it turned out ha ha super video mate, where were you operating the drone from?
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Fun video this one Lewis, I started with my first real rig back in 1981, a Rotel RVC220, the antenna a DB27 is still in the loft up at my parents house, I sold the radio when I got my ham licence in 1991, loved CB radio, some hams get really pinched up by it for some reason, particularly on HF I've noticed, inter g in the UK often use it as an insult, go back to your CB etc etc, well there is probably more activity and it's definitely busier on PMR, great video, more please, I watched you cinema style on my projector.
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Not sure why folks think the price is high? I value the week I spent trying to get the surecom repeater system to work properly about 5 times what this unit costs! looks a solid robust little device, if they can make it with an adjustable split they might sell a few in to the UK and the US, I will be interested to see what's inside and exactly how it performs, if they can manage the split I can see Raynet using these for event repeater stations maybe, it looks fairly watertight to me.
Really good review though, oh and liked the bit at the end too, blimey your friend was making a lot of fog with his vaping device ;-) do you ever get asked why your loitering around a stack of antennas on a lonely foggy moor? ha ha I used to get asked all the time when out and about doing the wifi link experiments, I imagine these days the public and the police are even more suspicious :-)
Tell Retevis to use N Type (MIL-STD-348) connectors on the case and not PL259, 259 isnt rated at UHF or anything above 300Mhz, I know we all tend to do it but they should fit N Type to the case and supply the end user a packet of N type to SMA adaptors or plain male N type plugs to solder on to the antenna lead, when I move house I am changing all my UHF kit over to N Type.
Get part 2 up quick ha ha, I have spent all weekend making my next video I don't think some people realise how long it can take to make test videos, its an interesting video I think however experience tells me that the one take 1/2 hour to edit and upload videos often get way more views.
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Covered everything there mate, looking forward to the ride review, I took mine on some very rough coastal paths when on holiday in Devon and of course on the beach, I need to get down to 14 stone might help prevent it over heating lol 😂 I'm a little over 16 stone at the mo, new year new me. 😎 PPL commenting on the legality, if your on the road with it just kick every now and then and if on the path just go easy when passing ppl, they are such great fun, cycling on the pavement is illegal, do you know anyone who's ever been convicted of it? And here's another thing many don't know and that's cycling on the pavement is only illegal if the pavement runs along side a road, alley ways through housing estates or parks need to have sineage otherwise you can legally cycle on them, if you kick the scooter every now and then and are sensible, you will only get stopped by ppl wanting to know where to buy one.
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I dont share the frequencies but I have shared short conversations picked up on DMR that are not encrypted for educational purposes on my videos, all of the traffic is in a 50mhz band and it only takes a couple of hours to catalog them, I dont think sharing of the frequencies is the reason that people are encrypting though Lewis I think the problem is poor system administration of the radios that are not enabling the encryption on the radios in the first place thats why some are garbled and others are not, the main purpose for going digital in the first place for many organisations using digital radios or replacing their existing analogue radios is the security that digital radios bring via encryption.
I would bet many business have no idea at all that encryption is even switched off, I dont know anyone with a digital scanner apart from you :-) and less people with an SDR who even have the SDR setup for digital so I honestly dont think sharing is making much difference, you are right that people tweeting the actual companies twitter page might invoke a check and a tightening up but general forum chat and indirect twitter posts would likely make little difference, I am amazed that the radios dont come from the manufacturer with encryption switched on by default?
Interesting question though and I do agree its better to keep a lot of information to your selves these days, I find it surprising that I can hear anyone to be honest and some of the banter the oppos transmit at times proves to me they think they are on a secure network, look at the bald guy whos just walked in or god he smells etc etc, funny to listen to but probably not something the business owners would be happy with being made public.
I think in time all of it will be encrypted not because of sharing but because of better installation practices, training and manufacturers intervention, particularly if there are any incidents that can be linked to eavesdropping on DMR.
Super video, your beard is fascinating in HD :-)
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Another slick production, i had a white phone like that with a long antenna, call was OK if you were in the room but it turned crap very quickly just 10 foot away, I used to listen in to them all the time on my scanner, got to be a hobby of mine ha ha, all the good stuff was on cell phones at the time though, you dont generally call the mistress from your home phone ha ha cough cough, only annoying thing is that I never recorded any of them or if I did I dont know where the tapes are, i can remember listening in to the fire brigade and the police on normal fm radios in the 1970s and 1980s, first radio I ever used was a crystal set back in 1975-76, clipped it on to the fence, no batteries required, it was a Bionic Man one ha ha, I had no clue how it worked, seemed like magic at the time.
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