Comments by "knoxieman" (@knoxieman) on "Ringway Manchester" channel.

  1. Yes because Gary Neville has hardly been a success has he? He's amassed a fortune on and off the pitch, noted to be worth in excess of 20 million quid a man who continues to make a very nice addition to this sum by using his voice? It's always the people who make no content who say stuff like this.
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Cheers for the plug buddy 👍 few Sinad meters are still available 👍
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  5. 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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  6. 15 years ago residents near me in a village complained about a mast that had been up for a year, locals were complaining of health problems and TV,WiFi and radio issues so the cell phone company organised a meeting in the local village hall, everybody aired their problems this mast was causing, much to the surprise of the cell phone company because they alongside a rep from the electricity company explained that the mast hadn't actually been powered on yet due to an issue with the electricity supply.
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  7. Ha ha amazing, great shots of the towers mate, those orange skyline shots are going to get pinched, your going to see them on other videos, amazing footage, I used to hear the laughing policeman up on the coventry warwick and leamington repeaters, used to make me laugh to be honest.
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  8. Interesting, I'm guessing the sound engineer would also compress the sound as well to get it spot on because all commercial pop and rock stations compress the music so there are no quiet spots massively changing the dynamics so a good idea to listen to how that sounds in a car.
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  9. Good video Rog, Tetra will almost certainly be cracked at some point, I've a good friend who's quite a senior copper and he says he uses his police mobile phone more than the radio, I can remember listening in to the cops as a kid and never heard anything particularly of interest, if it does get hacked the UK gov won't be able to afford to change the radios but they will move any sensitive stuff over to mobiles, I guess the big danger might be ppl impersonating police in order to gather information such as the address of ppl or registered owner addresses of car reg plates etc.
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  10. Ah some classic abuse on there, at times on certain repeaters the language and the people using it were worse than the folks on CB, as CB died off most of the kids and idiots went with it and you were left with people who really needed to use it like business people farmers, off roaders and enthusiasts, we all got in to ham radio to try and get away from it but many of us found it was still there, and it didnt take much for even some mature A licence ops as they were back then to just flip under even a tiny bit of abuse and start effing and jeffing and threaten to throttle folks a common tactic used when giving it the old come round my house, my address is etc was to give the address of some other ham you didnt like, to say some acted like children was an insult to most children. There still is a lot a hell of a lot of snobbery in Ham Radio sadly, bit of a golf/tennis club mentality, hardly a very good way to encourage new people in the hobby. Great video as usual mate.
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  11. Drone flying holiday makers get your papers in order, press love a good fake drone story, always keep your drone low and in your eyesight when down there, rescue helicopters appear very frequently.
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  12. Very interesting, i heard our local mosque for the first time the other day and didnt know what it was, antennas on the mosque are quad dipoles, some great footage to go with it as well, shame people are being ripped off on Ebay with those markups on the radios though thats not cool, especially if they are being sold to older and disabled people who cant attend. Great work.
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  13. Oh one more thing, recently in Edinburgh they thought someone was jamming the air band, turned out it was a faulty LED light bulb in someones kitchen in the flightpath! funny how Ofcom will rush to sort that out but bugger anyone else who has any problems.
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  14. Plenty of jammers round these parts still, mostly over in Daventy on GB3XX, when I say jammers read that as mostly local hams pontificating all day long in a tight group that could use simplex, its odd its either repeaters dont get used at all or the get used by a small selection of hams who almost certainly also have something to do with the repeater and dont want anyone else to use it. Great video though mate, I used to hear the LPWS on all the time when I first got licenced, he used to get on the Leamington repeater, to be honest I found it funny but I was just a kid back then.
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  15. I remember the legal date very well indeed, a lot of the am users I knew took a while to come over and were and still are around now of course as are many of the old AM radios. Cheers for the shout out Lewis, I'll have radio on Tuesday see what's about, I've got 50 to choose from.
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  16. Props to you Lewis for rocking up in NYC and standing on the street with a very very expensive camera to take these shots of such an iconic city, tourists always look up, locals look straight ahead, super footage and a great insight, my Dad visited NYC so many times on business, this is where he got my first set of walkie talkies and smuggled them back to England for me back in 1978, Anything to declare sir?? Cough? Only my Genius! LOL great work as ever mate.
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  17. I would bet ppl that fear 5G don't hand their phones in when 4G gets switched off, in a village near me people complained they were sick, having sleepless nights, headaches, they had a town hall meeting and the contractors showed video of the site, the tower was up and had been up for 6 months but it hadn't been able to be powered and had never been tested at all. All these people that are anti won't ever give up their phones of course, same ppl who are against electric cars would still take a lift in one rather than walk, same people that tweet about the harms of mining lithium from their lithium powered mobile phones and laptops are also the same people that claim to be stuck in traffic but don't accept that they are the traffic. I blame the X files. 😂
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  18. Great video, interested to see the link between GSM and analgoue at work that's a nice feature for hams, that's a great mic as well, still amuses me how 1 person can dislike a well presented totally free video on a nice product like this that nobody has forced them to watch, keep up the good work there young Lewis, don't hoover up all the views by making such great content in the future though, leave some for me lol.
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  19. Not many cheap VHF light portable radios on the market, I think they will stick with what they mainly use now and what you show on your photos and thats cheapo UHF radios, I hear them all the time in the summer on UHF PMR, I think you will hear some under the misguided belief that they are legally using them when in reality all they need is super light PMR radios like the UV3R as shown, paragliders are all about the weight, the lighter the better. Another interesting video though mate, cheers.
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  20. Loved that last clip, guy totally thought he was a commercial local radio DJ ha ha well back then they were also all quite sleazy as well but this guy took the biscuit ha ha, my experience back then in chatting to girls on CB was normally the sexier they sounded on the CB was indirectly proportional to actually how sexy they were, I arranged many eyeballs with girls only to abort at the last minute ha ha, in the end I just used to like to talk to them and not meet them, CB was a massive laugh, really really fond memories.
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  21. Good little sets those, usual top quality video .... Somebody's got a new drone 😂👍
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  22. Thats a neat idea, Be good if it had a bluetooth button on the other side you could use as a PTT button for zello, that way you could leave your screen off and have dual comms, this looks well implemented though and very sturdy, its got that panasonic toughbook look about it.
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  23. Poor Gerald...great clips, I have heard similar but never record them, the footage of the helicopters is superb!! im fascinated with helicopters when I see them up close, ive got some good footage of a seaking landing on a beach in cornwall.
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  24. Ringway Manchester yes got lots of pictures and some video yes I'm going to do a video of it shortly, we also had a permanent setup as well which was real cool, should make for an interesting video.
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  25. Super interesting, love the way the newspaper show a 10mw 49Mhz walkie talkie on the front of the paper thing probably wouldnt interfere with the radio if you were sat inside the plane besides being a mile off frequency, there was a lot of PMR gear that his the rallies in the late 80s early 90s ( I Know as I got hold of a lot of it) that was almost on air band and with the use of Chris Loreks conversion hand book could easily and cheaply be modified and dropped right in there. All aeroplanes use unencrypted analogue radio systems still mainly for safety reasons, leaves them a little vulnerable to this sort of japery still though, very easy to play about, especially with a beam antenna and a copy of flight radar, luckily it doesnt seem to be a thing and as most modern planes land themselves most of the time its not even really a major safety issue as it was in Die Hard 3. Seems like all the pranksters like this now have more fun trolling the internet or shit posting on Twitter, another great video, I will have to get making a few as well.
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  26. Fascinating test there Lewis, there has always been pirates on the airwaves, I suppose they dont see Satellite as being any different? have to agree.
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  27. Cheers for the chat Lewis, yes super nice audio on that for sure, well you would expect it to at that price though, really like it its very tempting indeed its just a bit too pricey for me, if it were half that I reckon it would be under the tree this year.
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  28. 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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  29. Superb video, I love the radio, its a re-badged Anytone AT-778UV I am surprised Anytone licenced it already, it runs very warm on transmit, great value, mics suffer from low audio a bit as they often ship out of alignment, I made a video on how to fix it on my channel.
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  30. Like the new review format (im very brief on un-boxing these days) I like the look of this radio, really like the little touches like the orange ring around the PTT button, overall a nice looking radio and it seemed to perform well too, the screen looked OK, my eyesight isn't great these days so not so sure it would suit me particularly when viewed in the daylight as it might not be bright enough. I have to be honest and say that overall I still prefer the audio quality of plain Analogue radios, I find DMR robotic sounding and very often voice changing to the point where all voices sound the same and are rather un listenable, I often listen in to the security people in the shopping centre near me and its very hard to tell one person from another, it strips all the character out of your voice. I think DMR is having a bit of an emperors new clothes moment where its becoming more popular and all of the big manufacturers are pumping their money in to it but nobody is taking about the audio quality, perhaps a topic for another video :-) Looking forward to your repeater video, take care out there buddy its blooming freezing!!
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  31. Super interesting radio and if you want to give some feedback to Retevis tell them to incorporate some of those waterproof features in to their normal radios, you need to get a dummy load Lewis you can test in to that and there will be enough signal off the sides to pick up and record on your scanner if you are very close to the dummy load, that way you can test the audio, one thing I have found when listening to some marine handhelds in the past is the audio can be muffled because of the waterproofing affects the mic sensitivity, I know some of the Cobra waterproof PMR radios suffer from this problem, ill have to buy a boat now so i can justify buying marine radios ;-)
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  32. Those hoverboards aren't legal, cycling on the pavement isn't legal, smoking dope isn't legal but I'd say 30% of the UK population under 30 do at least one if not all three of them, simple fact is if you are sensible you won't have any issues riding one of these in the UK on the road or pavement, I've been riding technically illegal ebikes and scooters for 20 years daily to commute on and have not even had a sideways glance from a policeman.
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  33. 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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  34. They look nice, I hear ppl on FRS from time to time, I wouldn't sweat too much about using them over here but with so many PMR offerings you probably wouldn't for any other reason than that it's quieter, nice little video 👍
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  35. Superb little video Lewis :-) I am also trying to plan my videos a bit better and think more about how to shoot them and stuff, I tend to get a bit over excited some times and do videos on radios without actually using them for more than a few hours, I have stopped doing that now and do spend time with the radios and the software before i make my videos, its all a learning curve I suppose. Keep them coming, love this style of video, my drone is out of action and I cant justify buying another one really, ill have to settle for my zoom lens :-) 73
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  36. I've got the Randy 3 and it's a very good radio, this radio on receive doesn't sound anywhere near as nice as the Randy 3 it sounds muffled with or without NRC it's still a great radio for the money but it's not as good as a randy 3 bit then the Randy is much more expressive, you pay the money you get what you get, the TP is at a good price it will sell very well
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  37. Performance of this radio/Antenna isnt very good, its a shame as it looks the part and I like the charger base and the software, if you can get another antenna to fit might be an option? on mine the battery also self discharges very quickly in the radio when not being used, all my others radios are the exact opposite and hold their charge for in some cases over a few years! Your UV5R might be suffering from the plastic moulding covering the mic input some people have reported having to dremmel the cases on some of these cheap radios to improve audio quality. All that being said 23 Miles with you sat in a car isnt bad? I presume your friend had an external antenna on his Icom? the reason it isnt opening the repeaters might be down to poor tones being generated in the radio? I will have a play with my radio and if I find anything I will share on my channel.
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  38. Hardest working man in showbusiness, well done Lewis another fascinating piece of work.
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  39. People can be so stupid mainly because the laser pin points their exact location, most of the time the lasers are just your standard 3mw laser pointer but much more powerful ones are available, I'm surprised our authoritarian government hasn't banned laser pointers, or crossbows or catapults, they will of course, the UK will be like north Korea if we carry on down this line of knee jerk control, I think they will crack down on out of band radios and DMR encryption for sure. Great video though, there has been many scanner conversations I wished I had recorded, particularly back in the early 90s when you could listen in to cell phones, I quickly learned when fellas are having an affair they often call their mistress when they are out walking their dogs 😆 ladies watch out for that one.
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  40. Great video as usual mate, just waiting for the internet radio police to slap you about again worried that a 200g toy might damage a 15 tonne steel tower 😂 amazing drone footage though considering the drone is just wanting to fly well away from all that RF your exposing it to.
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  41. Seems rather long winded, why didnt they simply use Whatsapp? I can see why it didnt take off
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  42. Crikey at 99 quid? Your a tough customer
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  43. Great video mate, with that gold mic I thought you might break out in to a song :-) I havent looked much at these radios really, I have to say I think they are a good idea for a rugged tool in the workplace also you might even be able to get away using one whilst driving (although I wouldnt) as it would take a copper who really knew his stuff to know it wasnt a radio and is in fact a phone, I do drive and use my HT though as you saw in the last few videos as that is legal. If they combined the network radio with a dual band hand held then im on board for sure, I am sure that they will do that, I used Zello a few years ago and had to wash my ears out after going on the Scottish Zello group, even the names of some of them I couldn't repeat on here, c*nto was one of them LOL. Audio was good on this video, I am sorting out an adsense issue with my account at the moment but will be getting some more videos up in the next few months when thats working again. Have a good weekend :-)
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  44. There is so much snobbery in this hobby its ridiculous, I hear it all the time to the point where some old school class A and B licence holders wont even talk to M callsigns, particularly on HF, the last thing this dying hobby needs is that kind of attitude, never understood what learning morse code had to do with anyone's ability to operate on HF, best thing they ever did was to drop that requirement although inter G is pretty much all you get these days with the same old farts using 1000W valve amps and obsessing over thousands of pounds worth of microphones and mixers like it actually makes a difference on such a narrow bandwidth. Fact is young Amateurs Like Lewis with his relatively big you-tube platform are highly influential and will be directly responsible for some of the faces you see coming through, Lewis is a lovely young chap, I would suggest if you were only joking on your comment below that you add a winking emoji at the end of the sentence I suspect that your original comment was legit and you are only backtracking because you have received comments , you can edit and delete youtube comments ;-) You only need a thick skin on youtube because people troll the comments section.
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  45. If these masts aren't manned I can see them being pinched, I'm pretty sure ofcom have these things fitted with trackers but the fact there is a very very expensive spectrum analyser in that box means super rich pickings. On a second point though Cornwall is going to be busy as hell this year because of the restrictions meaning folks have to holiday here so now it's going to be even more locked down, why couldn't they hold the damn thing in Coventry.
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  46. No the rx audio on this isn't as good as the randy 3, it's still a good radio for the money but it's not as good as the randy imo but it's much better value for money that's for sure
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  47. Great video as usual mate, I am pretty sure that HF communications are also used alongside this technology as well because if all else fails its amazing what you can do with just a few small watts and a morse code key.
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  48. Very good received audio, sounds like that was the case on tx as well 👍
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  49. Andy Kirby is going to do a side by side comparison of the randy 3 and this radio, imo this is better value for money than the Randy 3 only issue I can hear is the rx audio if they can sort that out president will have to drop the price or see their sales fall off a cliff, I think the TX is doing a bit of digital signal processing, I'm pretty sure it's using an si4705 for receive this is why it's cheap but if that's the case it could also do ssb in theory, for the money there isn't anything close, that being said with the randy you do get the car kit which cost extra for the TX, if they can sharpen up the rx audio and if it can be hacked for ssbb then it's game over, super video Lewis as ever, really interesting about the antenna as well 👍
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  50. If you have convinced just one person with this then that's been worth it, great advice as usual, so what's Santa bringing Lewis for Xmas then or was that the scooter?
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