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

  1. Japan do
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  2. I love the under ground bunker, always fancied a radio room like that 😂 seriously, really good video, great music and visuals as usual, people take their mobile phones and the ability to make calls and send pictures anywhere for granted, great to see the foundations literally in this video of such a site, ill go further and say anyone found damaging or attacking this equipment as we have seen recently should be banned from using it for life, biometric log on for every phone should do it 🤫🙈😎
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  3. Brilliant video Lewis, happy new year.
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  4. Superb analysis, I wonder what kind of power they were putting out? LabVIEW and the associated hardware is incredible and very versatile, it's a shame more people don't use it to help improve their products and stop so many poor designs spewing out interference, surprised they would use copyrighted audio samples for test purposes in a professional scenario though 🤔
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  5. If you could get a Nagoya in the antenna socket of the Zastone that might improve it although if you are going to do the submersion test not sure youll need to, im curious to test the self discharge on the radio, if I get a chance this weekend I will test it out, id bet its a poorly designed battery protection circuit bleeding off the power. In my next video which I have completed but not posted yet I think I have found a radio with good power and fabulous audio thats also cross band, id say its better than the FT60. Family member has just bought a version of this radio I will check with him to see what his unit is like.
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  6. 23 dislikes, think we are seeing a bit of snobbery from some of the hams that sub to you maybe? I hear it all the time especially directed towards m callsigns, there is an almost golf club mentality to less qualified callsigns in this hobby when in reality if you listen on inter g here in the UK some of the worst offender for operating practices and procedures are higher level licence holders (in particular old a and b licence holders) you know the types that obsess about BBC audio quality on HF LOL in that tiny bandwidth, anyway I enjoyed it mate big time.
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  7. 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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  8. Good video, its a good looking radio though, be interested to see how it performs on the range test, the Quansheng TGUV2 PLUS 100% does 10W https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfEAy8DRXAg
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  9. These look quite good, nice audio on receive, would be nice to hear how they sound at the other end, orange radios are cool. cheers m8
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  10. No way it's better than the Randy 3 it's cheaper but not better, also don't forget the randy 3 comes with the external power and antenna adapter in the box, my concern with this radio is the receive audio isn't very good, its muffled like an old audioline.
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  11. It's normally very quiet on 4 round here, radio looks good mate, especially the mic😎😎
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  12. 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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  13. You have some nice close up shots of the navigational aids there and also some very clear shots of the radar system, lovely work Bond, your Next mission is RAF Upper Heyford, see if you can sniff out which hangar they kept those pesky nukes in, pick up your gun, new car and spy briefcase from me tomorrow at 0800 hours, Q.
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  14. Great little video there as usual, my 888 video has had over 100,000 hits! they are a very popular radio as they hit all the right points, never tried the voice inversion feature out as some radios have it and others dont, I have just received another radio and will be making a video shortly, I picked up a couple of those WLN KD-C1 radios you reviewed for my kids as they love playing radios, they were £8.99 each although I noticed the seller has just put them up to £11.99? Looking forward to your next video (More Drone repeater videos please....longer range test next time) :-)
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  15. Hi Yes super video there buddy I was thinking of doing this a while back but my quad is too unpredictable and I don't have a handy with repeater function, I was even thinking we could link on a clear day, there is some high ground near me or I have a VHF or UHF beam I can borrow at my father in laws house, be fun to send it up again. In all serious its a great idea in a disaster relief situation if there were mobile problems, you could have 2 x drones with a radio on each and send them up alternately providing a constant repeater repeater function you might need a few more batteries but it could be done, I am sure the emergency services have though of this but still a good idea. Licence wise yes its a bit iffy however its a great experiment, im sure this will get lots of hits :-) I will hopefully get and finish my video this weekend, its taken me 3 weeks to do it!! ha ha. Cheers Paul
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  16. Dont stress the licence thing too much but you will get the internet Police Hams on your case at some point there is no doubt about that, they come after me all the time, "hey mate you didn't ask if the frequency is clear on that video" erm yes I did I just edited it out! ha ha I was thinking of going to some high ground and trying my quad, ive just got to get it flying a bit better although I must say I am tempted with the Mavic Pro although I dont think that's man enough to lift a HT. Proper good video this though mate, im going to watch it again later on the TV hen I get home took a sneaky look at work here. Would love to see you do it again, take it up on a high hill and go for really long distance :-) dont let the internet Police put you off, its a great and fun video that really captures the spirit of being a radio ham.
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  17. Yes worth checking out James Mays Toy Story, its brilliant, I think the UFO one is a bit older and may not be online. The other thing I was going to look in to was PMR internet gateways, I was going to set one up for fun but dont want the net police on my case, there was one near me a few years ago it was fun to use.
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  18. Interesting, im amazed at the amount of planes that fly at any one time, years back when I opened flight radar app for the first time I thought the app was broken as it was just a mass of yellow planes but it wasnt they were all up there, still with all this tech they can still fall in to the ocean and not be found, seems amazing that this can happen, all to save a bit of money. Wheres my free friggin radio I was supposed to get? you promised to send it me in a day from the warehouse on the moon, whats up? has space x gone bust or something? Pull your finger out ;-)
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  19. That lasted a lot longer than I thought it would? of all the tests I think it passed this one is the best! not sure some other radios would last that long so it does at least show it can survive maybe a drop in a toilet or a deep puddle. The radio however is crippled by poor performance and the battery drain issue, it needs a version 2, as the form factor, charger and software I really like, I still dont know who actually makes this radio as its badged by many different people, I wouldnt even be sure that Zastone are aware their name is even on this radio? its not on their website and there is quite a history for fake re branding of products in this way in the PRC, there is likely nothing Zastone could do even if they knew. Good video though Lewis, for such a bad radio it certainly seems quite popular if video views are anything to go by?
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  20. Yes maybe I'll go to the cost when I retire, your right aircraft are boring to listen to.
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  21. Great video Lewis, quick question did you have the radio set on wide or narrow? audio sounded really thin and scratchy? I like the radio but its not the best performer to be honest and when you compare the audio quality to an FT60 it does sound bad, but still its cheap and it looks the part, not sure I will bother keeping mine it may be the next competition radio.
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  22. Just a dummy load on each would work well enough between rooms, poorly adjusted CB radios can put watts out on this frequency in harmonics without planes falling out of the sky, still you do have to be careful making videos where you purposely do this I agree.
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  23. Fascinating mate and covered on the hit amazon prime ghost hunting show Truth Seekers, I must admit I had never heard of the Lincolnshire Poacher before I watched Truth Seekers and I thought that was just made up, although I do remember tuning in to these number stations on my mums multiband radio back in the 1070s and early 80s, back when you could listen to the police and the fire brigade.
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  24. Yes I have told Lewis to tell them to swap it out for an N type connector, PL259 is only rated at 300MHz and thats a good one, these will likely be cheapo PL259 connectors, only good for HF/CB and low power work, VHF should be OK but still N Type is better, cheapo N type will be better than quality 259 on VHF.
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  25. Im not really in to network radios but that looks useful for sure, as usual great video.
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  26. Congrats on the 10K Subs!!! woop woop!!! well deserved Lewis, knocking it out of the park with every video well done young sir!
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  27. Thats interesting, I dont remember the name or the brand, my first phone I got was in 1994 and that was a motorola flip through a big company that was based here in Banbury called Talkland I got it through a very good friend who worked there, it was a big local employer, the company was of course bought by vodafone, there were some big ass phones about at that time, me and Debbie were watching a show the other night where someone was using a payphone and I asked myself when I last used a payphone and it was before 1994, I guess thats why you dont see payphones, although arguably we still use pay phones its just they are in our pockets now and not some piss filled phone box and we pay much much more than the occasional 10 pence that we used to, in fact we used to use payphones without even paying but thats another story.
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  28. Great to see a review video and this little radio looks like great value for money, I'm sure it will sell well, you can apparently open up the tx on it with a hidden menu, use that with caution you might bring down one of the planes Rog 😂 great video and I'm glad you didn't get rammed by that thing with horns.
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  29.  @banjax66  Yes like the Oxymoronic Term American English...Learn how to pronounce the word Solder instead of saying sodder! ha ha :-) im going to go right ahead and sodder this joint with my soddering iron...
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  30. Yes have to agree with that, 259 is only rated up to 300Mhz and many folks dont make the plugs and leads up properly leading to problems, a lot of the cheap 259 connectors are poorly made and only any good for CB applications, its something he can mention to Retevis as this is a pre production unit, it cant be much of a stretch for them to fit N Type connectors and supply adaptors, lots of us are guilty of using 259 on UHF when we really shouldnt.
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  31. Speaker coil in your phone picking up strong local signal the signal was likely still there when your call connected but the drive from the phone to the speaker wiped it out, some of the really cheap ebike controllers in the past coupled to a cheap motor put out very wideband interference that would do this to cell phones, no need to call Mulder and Scully on this one 😎
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  32. Just send him pictures of yourself in Speedos he will get right back to you lol
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  33. At 7.15 it sounded like you said thats a boner :-) I know you like these radios Lewis ;-) super job on the video, I will have to get my ass in to gear and nag one of the vendors to send me one although the last time I used Zello it was 100% potty mouth time not very family friendly :-)
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  34. Yes was about to say the same thing although getting our engineers to clip in and out of them is another story.
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  35. 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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  36. Good review Lewis, im baffled as to why they have dropped this in to such a dated case though? I can only think they are in a rush to get the hardware out there. My first foray in to DMR is the GD77 and i have to admit DMR leaves me a bit cold to be honest, we have no repeaters round here and i find the audio quality of the digitally decoded voice to be poor on the cheap chinese sets i have seen tested so far, for me DMR has some work to do if its going to replace analogue and switching on encryption will kill it completley, Im interested to see how it performs but i dont think ill be buying one, i just dont get why they have put it in that case😕😕
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  37. Yes it is, that was my first antenna, it still sits on the chimney on my mum's house, it's been there 30 years 🤪
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  38. Looks like a very useful book, the red arrows fly over quite frequently in the summer months, always great to see them.
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  39.  @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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  40. Thats a very odd thing and I suppose the fact that you spotted it means its not a very convincing tree? id say its being decomissioned, reminded me of years ago when people used to go to planning meetings complaining to cell companies that they couldnt sleep and were having head aches and other health issues from the cell towers only to be told they hadnt even been switched on yet LOL.
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  41. Lovely video Lewis, I had no idea radio hams were involved, sad times we live in now in a way that copper sat on the motorbike with a group of kids around him would only happen these days as they were about to push him off his bike and smash it up. As you know I've got police and fire radios and when ever I pick them up I wonder if these things could talk, it would be amazing, in some ways we have been robbed as many many historical events that have happened that would have been captured and recorded by enthusiasts from the police, fire, etc won't be there on record as we increasingly go encrypted digital, hopefully aviation will hold off but for how long who knows. Lovely music, is that you and your new gear?
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  42. Superb find that, worth a tenner just for the project case 👍
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  43. Yup it's a great price that's the thing, that being said I wouldn't swap it for the president Randy 3 just based on the rx audio, all the reviews I've seen on this radio the rx audio is disappointing, muffled, I hope thunderpole can sort this out, I think there is DSP at play, be nice if they released schematics so I could see what's at play.
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  44. Super little review Lewis, that thing looks chunky, I wouldnt drop it in a bath of water though however it looks like it would be fine in the rain.
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  45. A really nice little radio, I like it in black, with the ear piece thats an amazing value radio there, after watching your drone repeater radio video last week and a good bottle of wine last friday I went drunk ebaying and got another radio, review on its way, thanks lewis! ha ha
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  46. Hey Lewis your getting some good views on this video! nice one, not sure I will be getting a DM-5R after your honest review though, its restricted in its digital mode by not being compatible with anything else? to make the feature pretty redundant. Great to see you in front of the camera, I knew from your voice you were a bit younger than me ha ha so now thats confirmed (I had hair like that once) ha ha. Thanks for the video, im looking forward to another Drone repeater video from you, see how far you can push the range, I think it would be fun to do it with the KDC1 ha ha, you could then run with the title as KDC1 successful 50 mile test maybe? I have had another new radio to test but a dental nightmare emergency route canal appointment put paid to that this weekend, there really is nothing worse than toothache! I kept telling the missus its worse than childbirth, yeah that went down well LOL. Thanks again buddy and looking forward to more videos.
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  47. Yes I was going to ask you about taking both our drones up to do a video, I reckon we might need to get up to 1000-1500 foot to do it but on a clear day I reckon we could make it line of sight, will have to put a line over on google earth. I love experiments like this they are so much fun, did you ever watch that program where they built a massive fake flying saucer and flew it over avebury? it was amazing and of course James Mays Toy Story where they flew the glider autonomously to Lundy. Do another one!! its gerat fun to watch, ill watch it later on the big screen.
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  48. A useful device for sure, dont you have a landline at home though?
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  49. Ah right :-) very cool, im about to put something up watch this space, I thought that I had finished it Sunday but when I got back the SDR had not recorded properly, I used 8 bit recording in sdsharp before but it doesnt work now for some reason, 16 bit does but it makes massive files when you are recording the baseband. Ill get it posted this week hopefully.
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  50. Yes that looks like an interesting radio although I dont have any DMR radios although I do have an Icom D-Star handheld but have honestly never spoken on D-Star with it since I got it.
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