Comments by "" (@adamswl969) on "Ringway Manchester" channel.

  1. "We are nearly over Ringway's location, please send launch codes now, COPY?" One really wonders what they were up to.
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  2. Must have had 2 capcodes programmed into the pagers. One for normal text messages so they work as intended. The other to trigger the bang device hidden inside all of the pagers at the same time. How they made the Icom V82 go pop is next level. Going to carefully place mine outside now.
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  3. I remember the woodpecker well in the mid to late 80's. Had a Yaesu FRG-7700 and you could still hear it with the antenna disconnected sometimes! OTHR is still used these days (Australia has JORN for instance) and some of these systems appear randomly on any frequency depending upon MUF. Great video again Lewis!
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  4. I had always thought the buzzer was purely a broadcasting station for transmit only. Why would they listen between transmissions? Has there ever been evidence of military stations talking back and passing traffic TO the buzzer? Smells like bullsh!t to me. Tik Tok is hardly a worthy source of credible information.
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  5. I remember how busy the network became in the hours following the 911 attacks in 2001. It was rather intense hearing all sorts of messages, wondering if WW3 was about to kick off. Got very little sleep for about a week just glued to the HF radios and television. Very informative video as always Lewis!
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  6. Imagine the chaos caused nowadays if some random person came across a black box with an antenna attached to it left in place somewhere. Let alone if it was even broadcasting anything.
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  7. Should the sound of the buzzer ever crash, be prepared for the bright white flash! 🔥⚰ Love the sound of the malfunction! I bet a few people got pretty anxious at that moment. The buzzer is live here on YouTube for those like me who cannot hear it via RF.
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  8. I thought the signal on 6417kHz was that of XSL or the slot machine oddity. Said to be Japanese Naval Defence. It is often broadcast across multiple channels in the 6 and 8 Mhz bands and is very loud here in Australia after greyline. Given that it is audible every evening here with consistent strong signals, it is definitely not Russian. Whether the Russians are using this type of waveform/modem as well is unknown to me.
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  9. Have heard the loop sampler on 7103kHz a few times during our early mornings around 1300 UTC. Can get up to 5x9 plus in the Southern Hemisphere, interspersed with jammers and others shouting presumably abuse. Nice catch on the Buzzer Lewis!
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  10. All he could manage to do was wail and screech like a petulant eight year old. Truly horrible noise and almost indecipherable ranting. If you are going to hijack a broadcast transmitter, at least have something remotely intelligent (and intelligible) to say. Interesting video nonetheless!
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  11. Some of those panel antennas are transmitting multiple carriers across several frequency bands in a rather concentrated beam width. Definitely not a place to be for long in close proximity and in the signal beam.
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  12. Having grown up watching The Bill, Grange Hill and many other British shows, it is really nice to finally see just how beautiful Britain is. It's not all concrete and tiny council flats after all 😃 Your videography is stunning Lewis!
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  13. Rather impressed that the general public are able to wander around the antenna's like that! Incredible building and view from the top. Brilliant as always Lewis!
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  14. The 90's was such an awesome decade! The flashing antenna reminds me of when a co-worker got pulled over and fined for using his Ericsson GH-337 while driving. It happened at night so the flashing lit up the entire car interior and attracted the attention of the Police! I think the appeal of those antennas quickly diminished when people starting getting fined on the phone at the wheel. And who could forget those "anti radiation" patch stickers that were supposed to shield the user from the horrible cancers that the phones could cause 😂 Great collection Lewis!! (You need to get a clear cased AOR AR8000 receiver)
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  15. VC01 The Chinese Robot 7207kHz USB around 1100UTC is one that I hear most nights. Rapid fire Chinese numbers that are computer generated, sent seemingly for hours on end. Reported to be air defence related, but spooky to listen to. Excellent video Lewis!
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  16. If the ticking clock is a pirate, then it is a pretty serious operation. Heard every morning here in Southern Australia, often S7+ easily getting over OTHR interference. Whoever is doing it has a very decent station.
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  17. It's sounds as if the bugler is blowing out of both ends 😁
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  18. So there were never any crop circles. Only Wullenweber arrays! This series is super interesting Lewis!
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  19. I'm not well either. Can't stop buying radios. Hope you get well soon Lewis. Because I won't! 😏
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  20. I was a teenager back when the Woodpecker was active and used to listen to shortwave on my fathers AIWA TPR-955G. No SSB mode on the AIWA so it was broadcast listening only but I still remember hearing the radar racket and wondering what on earth it was. A friends father explained that it was supposedly coming from behind the iron curtain. Silly me thinking there was a place that had windows full of metal. HF OTHR still shows up at random just about anywhere nowadays, especially on top of that rare DX station on 20m. Awesome video again Lewis! Illustrates the efforts pre internet to work out what the source of the noise was.
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  21. At 4:40 on 6230kHz you can hear Australian coastal weather forecast from VMW in Wiluna West Australia in the background. Nice to catch two signals from (one presumably) from both sides of the equator on the same frequency.
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  22. Between Ringway Manchester and Tech Minds, I am almost assured that retirement will be a long way off. They have been responsible for stoking the fires of my radio acquisition syndrome. It is a serious problem in this shack. Thanks again Lewis!
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  23. Have been hearing the buzzer on 4625Khz in Australia just before grey line in our early mornings at 20:00 UTC. Quite audible on a 90ft end fed long wire most mornings. Have not heard a Monolith yet. No sign of the new buzzer, and this video explains why. Thanks again Lewis.
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  24. It is!!!😎 OMFG
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  25. My IC-V82 is now safely outside. I was too scared to remove the D-Star module from it.
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  26. So glad I subbed to your channel ages ago Lewis! Your content is really interesting and just keeps getting more intriguing. Well done as always!
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  27. Super interesting stuff! The world before GPS and other modern systems. That old building would make a great field day location!
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  28. So they were building the ultimate ANNOY-O-MATIC transmitter that ensured any desired waveform could be emitted at a precise time from anywhere by users so authorised. Sounds like a jamming system. Either intentional or not. Or the ability to insert messages into other stations transmissions. Love the technical information and illustrations of the equipment!
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  29. Great to see you got yourself an IC-R15 Lewis! It is a cracking little receiver and I love the color display. I enjoy hearing aircraft handing off to HF and following them from there.
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  30. This is a very common one to pick up down in VK land. Is a good indicator of band conditions since it's signal is so consistent. Great video as always Lewis!
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  31. The only interruption to existing services here was the TV reception, caused not by TETRA (transmitting well within limits of it's spectrum allocation) but by the often cheap and nasty mast head amplifiers which are usually quite broad banded and have far too high a gain figure for the required application. This in turn pushes the TV front end too hard and causes out of band signals to present as interference. It was/is the consumer tech that is at fault here and not the frequency or transmission type chosen by Airwave.
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  32. Thanks Lewis for going back in time and taking such good photos of the Soviet system. Another excellent video!!
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  33. More loser tours please! Love these site tour videos!
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  34. The rock chucker at 0:15 and the bird rocking the mad necklace at 5:46! Love these antenna site videos!
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  35. I find it amusing that they chose to call the system MOULD. Something usually related to cold, damp and depressing. Not something futuristic or military sounding. Amazing drone shots Lewis! Another great video!
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  36.  @fpvDRE  Yet here you are!
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  37. Those are the people the Pharmaceutical companies DON'T want you to know about! Nice work as always Lewis!
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  38. Finds that message is to affect their elimination since they are here watching Lewis instead of listening to the actual broadcast!
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  39.  @RingwayManchester  You too Lewis!
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  40. Thanks Lewis for the further testing, and folding one over mid transmission. Great video as always!
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  41. And I remember MAD magazine doing a parody of that show "WKRAP in Cincinnati" back in the day!
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  42. My local taxi service has switched to network radios. They absolutely love them because of the seamless coverage which covers their entire service area and beyond. Far superior to their old UHF system which had interference issues (sometimes deliberate). PTT operation means that the entire fleet can quickly be notified if anyone is in distress or needs additional cars.
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  43. Brings back great memories from the peak time of scanning! My kit of choice was an Icom IC-R10 and Optoelectronics Scout 40 with reaction tune and CI-V cable. Had to sell a kidney to get that setup, but it was absolutely brilliant at events like Airshows or the Grand Prix. REALLY wanted the Explorer when it came out but you need at least one kidney!
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  44. No volume control outside of the menu? On a mobile? Needs to have "The Volume Pole" Banging outtro tune there Lewis!
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  45. Looking DISHeveled. I see what you did there! Very interesting video Lewis!
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  46. Love how the newspaper articles report the system as "totally secure" 😂 And interesting how they incorporated scanner trap talkgroups to stop a conventional scanner cold. An EDACS system local to me once upon a time would employ 5 seconds of beeping after a user de-keyed to hold up the channel. As you were forced to listen to the beeping, the users of that talkgroup would now be continuing their transmission on another frequency in the trunked pool. This resulted in missed transmissions and on a busy system, finding the users you were interested in was almost impossible. But then Trunk Tracker III solved all that! 🙂 The (U)BC245XLT handheld was just God tier at the time!
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  47. Very true Lewis. Back in 1987 I bought my first scanner (Realistic PRO-33) secondhand from a listing in the local classifieds. The seller included a large dot matrix (remember those!) printout of frequencies to go along with it. He was very insistent about keeping what I hear to myself and not to go telling people when a incident occurred or any private information I might hear. Everything was analogue back then except for some Police departments using the then new Motorola DVP Securenet. Then a few years later PAMTS 800Mhz phones were being rolled out. A local scanner listener overheard and recorded two politicians tearing apart a colleague over the network. Those recordings were released to the media...and the resultant crap storm saw the roll out of GSM digital mobile networks start in earnest. Fast forward to the internet and we have people STREAMING radio traffic live online. Great, listen to NYPD anytime on the home P.C. But now, all that is needed is a Smartphone and ANYONE can listen from ANYWHERE! No technical knowledge required or money needed to buy radio and antenna equipment. I can only imagine the thoughts going through the minds of radio network users that find out their radio traffic is being broadcast over the internet, by persons unknown for anyone to listen to. Sorry, but streaming radio traffic is by far pushing the move to encryption for many services than a few hobbyists who may be listening with a scanner. And as mentioned previously, frequency databases are in the public domain and searchable like OFCOM, FCC and ACMA for example. Certainly many users are listed as parent companies or may be using a trunked system and the users may not be obvious by a search, but it is still the best idea to keep information from the wider audience. Otherwise, as Lewis alluded to in his video, the encryption checkbox in the radio programming software will more often than not be checked! And encryption is standard in most digital radios now, no extra hardware needed and encryption does not alter the range or voice quality. Ø will be on permanently for everything from the Manchester Markets to the Snow Plough. At least until LTE or 5G takes it all over!
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  48. I always assumed it was for people who like Canadian timber! 😉
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  49. Gopnik hardbass!! Now you have me dragging the home theatre subwoofer into the shack to give it a try!
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  50. Really interesting look with your awesome drone footage Lewis! But you better be careful as I think you may have been spotted. A plane reverses back for a double take at 7:30 so your cover is likely blown.
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