Comments by "spaceflight101" (@spaceflight1019) on "Ringway Manchester" channel.

  1.  @MrWhizardsLizard  , try FCC DA-13-1089. Notification of an $18,000 fine.
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  2.  @MrWhizardsLizard  , the "fake website" you refer to is the FCC's own website. They came after this channel 6 operator with an $18,000 fine. He decided that if he ignored them the problem would go away. That worked well until the Justice Department sent U.S. Marshals. Mr. Johnson hasn't been heard for several years now. But as you've said, if you don't do anything to attract their attention, like running enough power to come through turned-off TV sets and randomly turning microprocessor-controlled appliances on and off then you'll be just fine. Mr. Johnson inspired his neighbors to bring their congressional representatives in because of inactivity by the FCC. Now, here's a twist...I read that, in a bid to collect unpaid licensing fees, ASCAP/BMI is going after unlicensed pirates. While this mainly concerns FM radio they have gone after anyone who is playing music without the license, including bars and other venues. Playing music once in a while won't get their attention. Playing music and selling advertising will.
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  3.  @MrWhizardsLizard  you can't post links outside of YT. They get deleted. Mr. Johnson was not a ham and had nothing to do with ham radio.
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  4.  @cartermize6651  Yes they have be broadcasting voice, or its bootleggers.
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  5. ​@dieseldragon6756My favorite is "IthurtswhenIP".
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  6. Like the beginning of "War Pigs"?
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  7. I hear nothing but Puerto Rico on channel 9, but have heard Russian speakers on channel 16 USB and Italians on channel 12 USB last weekend.
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  8. That pretty much sums it up. At its peak in the mid-70s Pittsburgh area had about a dozen CB shops and Cameradio, Tydings and a Heathkit store sold ham gear. By 1980 all that was left was Whiteside Electronics and Radio Shack. Jack Whiteside passed away in 2008 and Radio Shack soon followed. As a social network, it died of its own weight and popularity. You just couldn't have an antenna on every home and expect to operate. Most of the hobbyists got their ham license and sold their CB radios. We learned that if we bought via mail order we didn't have to pay sales taxes. I'm retired now and have time to listen. CB in the daytime belongs to the truckers. Night time it belongs to no one. 50 years ago it was the social network but today it's a relic.
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  9. ​ @carltauber2939 The frequencies and times are in the lower left corner.
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  10.  @chrisdooley1184  Happy to have been of assistance. What are you using for your receiver and antenna?
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  11. In Pittsburgh, all we get are flood, severe thunderstorm, and tornado watches and warnings. Sometimes we'll get an Amber Warning. Since they insist on running Emergency Alert System tests at all hours of the night alert radios are useless.
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  12. The best part is that even though the old analog cell bands that are blocked on many radios have been abandoned and unused for over a decade the bands are still blocked, and apparently will continue being blocked until Congress amends the Communications Act.
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  13. US is a little slow...we don't have 4 or 8 meters or the 43 mhz CB band. There are still commercial and public safety users on those frequencies.
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  14.  @MI7DJT  , they date back to before 1965. There are sites that have vintage CB radio magazines and people swapped QSL cards for years.
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  15.  @coolelectronics1759  , I have a Polycomm 23 too. They were made beginning in 1963. Their first sets were four channel crystal controlled. The Polycomm 23, and the Senior 23, were part of the second generation of radios. The company went bankrupt in 1966 or 1967.
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  16.  @coolelectronics1759  when I welcome a new old tube radio into the herd, I figure out where the high voltage is and connect a 30 volt current limited supply to it and monitor the current for a few hours. If the current stays on zero the odds are good that it won't explode when plugged into the line!
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  17. I'm amazed that nobody is toying with the BBC 25.900 broadcast, since it's close to the 12 and 11 meter bands.
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  18. ​ @MidlifeRenaissanceMan There is a chart online that shows the service assignments for the various parts of the spectrum. Just because it appears to not be in use where you are doesn't mean that it's not in use.
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  19. ​ @MidlifeRenaissanceMan I love the phrase "correlation is not causation", because it allows the ignorant to excuse the truth.
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  20. The biggest problem with the frequency bands used by 2G and up is that they are easily affected by weather if you try to get a long distance between towers.
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  21. I believe in the laws of nature, myself.
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  22. Back in the day, you had to have the knowledge and ability to build this stuff. Now it can all be bought online, no knowledge necessary above using the phone.
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  23. Thinking about a DXpedition?
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  24.  @raypitts4880  I don't know of any radar system that uses an omnidirectional antenna. They've used dishes since day one.
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  25. I've been on the band since 1970, and the sunspot cycle in the early 2000s produced something that I'd never heard before: polar path propagation flutter. In 1970, the band was open from a few hours after local sunrise until a short time after sunset. The band wasn't in worldwide use then. Now it is, and when the conditions are right you'll hear a fluttery heterodyne as a noise level.
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