Comments by "sondra york" (@sondrayork6317) on "Ringway Manchester" channel.

  1. back when that was possible, you could program frequencies in the 6.125-meter band which were around 49 MHz and doing so would open the scanner for receiving cordless phones. I miss doing that though as phones have been moved off the 49 MHz funny band so around 5 gigahertz. plus, they now have security features that scramble the outgoing signal too. plus, in the United States it's also illegal to even listen to those transmissions hence why cordless phones have moved.
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  2. his voice still creeps me out even to this day, more now that he's dead.
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  3. I’m a hobbyist and I do a lot of scanning myself as well as SWLing. In the us, it’s not illegal in most areas to listen to police and fire communications. With that said, I have Beloit pd and fd frequencies programmed. The only time it’s illegal is if you’re doing it while committing a crime. Otherwise in most areas, there is no issue in scanning different wavelengths.
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  4. That one sounded like Morse code being sent by an inexperienced operator lol.
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  5. That signal is actually not the correct signal, “at the tone, 0 hours, 0 minutes, Coordinated Universal Time, deeeeeeeeet, station id and back around the clock it goes with a similar message.”
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  6. When I ran a shoutcast stream, I never had dead air even though it was ran as an amateur radio broadcast station. And even though it was entirely online, it followed the same rules and schedule as commercial stations do. I even had a backup source of audio should dead air occur which was usually my hf radio fed into the sound card lol.
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  7. lol, some hams don’t get it that you only call cq once, wait for a reply, and if not, don’t keep trying on that frequency for another 3 minutes. At the top of each hour and at the bottom of each hour, I observe a radio silence period of 5 minutes to allow distress transmissions because I’m a very considerate operator. Try it, you just might get quite a few friends, be a dick, and we just ignore you.
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  8. The c crane skywave is another good radio. If you’re really interested in SSB reception, you can use a WebSDR to start out for free. But otherwise, the c crane skywave will work as well.
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  9. I have never heard of a station broadcasting a shutdown loop, that's a new one on me lol.
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  10. I got started out on Xbox before getting my ham license. I only did b/c so I could shoot skip and I also was an avid swler too when sw radio had a lot more stations then it does now. I am still considering getting my gmrs license though.
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  11. that radio could pass off as a brick phone with no Dialpad LOL. if you had to, you could have knocked the enemy out just by bumping him on the head and it probably wouldn't have taken much force lol.
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  12. Lol that phone was very impressively loud and clear. I could copy everything you said!
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  13. Before I got my license for ham radio, I did use to do a lot of scanning mainly for baby monitors and open key microphones as well as cordless telephones but then I got caught doing so and got a warning about the possibility of jail time. Since then though, I got my licenses for both ham and gmrs radio, and basically grew out of doing that crazy rude crap lol.
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  14. there are five specific channels that are license-free here in the US. in the VHF band and those channels are limited to simplex line of sight, no repeaters, and the ERP is limited to 2 watts output and that service is known as the multiple-use radio service or MURS. it might be illegal in the UK though and I plan not to find out either lol. and the list of channels there is right above the two-meter ham band too, which over here is mainly used by CAP and the US government for tactical uses. this comes from a scanner hobbyist and ham radio operator,. follow the rules guys, and everything should be just fine. but if u have the money and time, u go right ahead and do ur bullshit freebanding, but... you WILL be heard, you WILL be found, you WILL be caught, and you WILL go to jail if not lose your radio equipment if not both!
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  15. It was transmitting the letters L E O D which must be the station call sign.
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  16. i have the whistler ws10470 handheld scanner, and it covers anywhere from 25.000 MHz all the way up to 1.3 Ghiz, although cell bands are blocked for obvious reasons. but it covers digital modes as well such as APCO phase i, and i think NXDN but I'd have to look at the menus on it, it also can cover am signals such as those found down on the 40 legal power CBRS channels too. it also can store up to like 37000 possible programable objects too and what i have programmed doesn't even covers that huge landscape of objects lol. I love the hobby of scanning too but guys, do it legally, i do it legally and have been for years now. yes, i use to scan cordless telecoms as a kid, but that is NOTHING compared to what this poor sod did. what he did sounds to me like it could involve charges of treason before the royal crown court. let';s hope he didn't face charges for even HAVING those frequencies in a scanner lol.
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  17. The u.s. is lucky in terms of television licensing, we don’t need a license for reception, but for broadcasting, we do and a lot of us just watch tv anyway.
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  18. That sounds like a date signal I heard on hm01 cubas numbers station.
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  19. Our police department doesn’t even share but license plate numbers, but they try to share that information by other means. Ems on the other hand now, they tend to share hippa protected information, plus they use p25 phase I/II encryption so analog scanners can’t decide the signals
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  20. Sounds like it might be a shortwave radio pirate if the signal suddenly changes.
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  21. mine is the whistler ws1040 which goes from about 25 to about 1300 MHz with certain bands blocked. neat little thing too.
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  22. I am more a rf type person but if I had to, I could use something like that. I am mainly a ham, Murs, gmrs, and frs radio type person though. if you want free comms, get yourself a family radio service rig, gmrs rig, ham rig, or Murs rig,. it would be a neat thing to have though, if I could afford the plans lol.
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  23. I just heard that signal back in January from here in the United States. It’s really eerie sounding to say the least.
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  24. 10 megawatts? that's ten million watts! imagine the electric bill after shutting off the transmitter after a day of operation. it sure can't be cheap, and I highly doubt too that you are going to be able to run something like that on battery power, but wow, ten mill8ion watts? wow lol
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  25. Don’t you even think about it lol. You do, I am not bailing out once the fcc starts kicking your ask me no questions. They can really do some real damage financially once they get started. Be warned.
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  26. an rf burn from that antenna would be quite nasty. at that high of power output, it could maybe kill you if you grounded yourself properly.
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  27. I use murs when I’m camping with friends each year. So much cleaner and clearer than the trash bands up on FRS and down on 27 MHz CB.
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  28. I have all three, I am an avid SWLer that uses webSDR for listening to hf, and I have tried to decode SSTV signals. I actually enjoy trying to copy SSTV too.
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  29. that particular receiver looks familiar, I have one in storage that was my stepdad's but b ecause everyone had gone digital, I can't use it anymore, and to tell you the truth, it had better sound then today's scanning receivers. I suppose if I wanted to, I could have it programmed to receive 10 of our local repeaters, but hell, what's the use, I have my new scanner that does everything all the way from CB receive all the way up to the 1.3 GHZ ham band, it covers EVERYTHING except of course cells. it'[s handheld too and with like thirty thousand slots, i could theoretically program all the state police hqs for every state but I'm not going to lol. the scanner I'm talking about is the ws1040 from the whistler group. plus, those, if you want to reprogram them, you couldn't without having to buy the specific rocks for the frequencies u wanted. where with today's radios, they have direct keypad entry,
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  30. It is also prohibited by the FCC to even use amateur radio equipment near those big radio telescopes in order for scientific research to be conducted. It’s in part 97 of the FCC rules that if you want to operate there, permission must be granted before you can even squeeze the microphone key. I am a general class operator and I have done enough studying on the subject.
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  31. god that is just awful. I'm a linseed ham radio and I'd never be stupid enough to even transmit there, let alone on any frequency other than ham freqs. yeah, i listen to them on my wideband scanners yeah, but I'd NEVER intentionally transmit on any frequency or ies not authorized by my general class license. not intentionally anyway. not even by accidently as I have no reason to transmit outside of the ham bands other than for MURS/FRS and even then, I use AUTHORIZED radios to transmit on those channels. never my Baofeng. I don't think the airports mind u listening there no, but they do know how to track you down should you make the mistake in mocking ATC, if you want to talk to me on the ham bands, great, just get your license first and we can do all the regchew in the world. all i ask though is please do not do what these stupid yobs did, it will get you jailed every time. good luck in getting your license too because the FCC won't grant you such privileges if you DO decide to jam radio services. just a heads up from a 20-year licensee on ham radio.
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  32. the best way to get a radio station on air, is to use shout cast instead of taking chances with radio frequency broadcasting. I used to broadcast at 87.9 MHz on the FM dial under part 15 but the transmitter i used didn't last too long so I switched over to shout cast instead of putting money into something as small as that little transmitter. a lot of what i broadcasted though was of very little interest to those outside of the high school i worked for though so it really wasn't much lol.
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  33. That doesn’t even sound like music let alone backwards music. It sounds more like microphone feedback than anything else.
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  34. No wonder I can hear it from Wisconsin. They have to be pushing at least a million watts of power or better. I have been interested in chasing down these oddities since subscribing to your channel and it can prove quite interesting indeed too.
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  35. this repeater you guys are playing with sounds like it could be a cheap start to getting into managing a system, I use to own "still do" and run a cross band type system until squirrels decided to take over the damn site and use the antenna mast as their climbing ground to get up on top of the house. I still do have the mag mount antenna that was being used though so if I were to buy that model, it'd be easier to install, manage, and operate. a five-minute set up vs a twenty-minute hook up would really be a cool thing. and the range on it sounds like it could be an impressive range too.
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  36. I use websdr for most of my hf monitoring but I also use a physical radio as well for am reception. I use mostly the whip antenna but I sometimes use a long wire connected to the tip via a pop can tab I affixed to the wire using just electrical tape and it seems to work fairly well for the design that I chose. I even use to do with tv antennas minus the pop can tab back in the analog days just so I could watch the brewers games out of Milwaukee Wisconsin via TMJ4 while living in South Beloit. On how I miss doing that. Digital tv is nowhere as easy to do that like analog. Lol.
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  37. lol, sounds childish like there’s kids messing around with the transmitter lol.
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  38. Oops, a big no no to break into a net controlled by the FCC. And treason is imminent for causing interference to army communications. That is if a person can be charged with such a serious crime for causing interference to military communications that is.
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  39. Over here 154.600 is murs 5. Murs is an fcc sanctioned radio service for license free use by the general public and is limited to 2 watts with no limit on the use of different antenna types so long as you don’t get above 60 feet off the ground and 20 feet off of whatever structure it was mounted on. See fcc rules part 95 for details.
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  40. The digital tone sounds akin to SSTV but I don’t know what format it is using if it is SSTV or if it’s another data signal.
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  41. i use to be able to hear this one m9onibug that i later on found out was my next-door neighbor lol, since the house burned though, i isn't heard a peep on 47*9.83602 mhz. i don't even hear milcoms down there like the allocations say either, I've even tried doing dx on that band too but of course, there was no such luck LOL,
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  42. That doesn’t even sound like music let alone backwards music. It sounds more like microphone feedback than anything else.
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  43. That would get expensive and stupid quite fast if every time you keyed up even just to give your call sign you got billed for each transmission. You might as well just use a damn cell phone if billing by the second is the case. I’ve never heard of a walkie talkie service that did that either.
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  44. The law over there is stupid, they let you buy a scanner, but they then prosecute you for using it? If it’s just a receiver, how do the cops know you even have it on! I have apps that I can use to listen to the 911 center in rock county and they don’t even care because I can’t transmit on it. And I don’t plan on it either because it’s illegal to do so anyway
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  45. mine was shitepoke, then it went from that to KSAY53511 for local comms and 2SAY53511 for dx comms since 2 is the prefix for America. my stepdad used fcc call sign KHL0506. then I got my ham license and my call sign went from KSAY53511 to KC9CPX. I got off cb also when it started to become a hotline for sluts to do their thing. radio just isn't meant for that anyway,
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  46. if i was running that station and I found I could no longer keep it going, I would fight it with OFCOM, they'[re worse than the FCC when it comes to that kind of enforcement. I know of one station that went dark due to bankrupted, and that was WNFX fox radio 96.7 here in the united of states. that was way back in the eighties though and I highly doubt the FCC penalized them for going off air,. If you can't afford it, simply don't try to purchase it.
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  47. It does indeed sound like a broken weather warning siren. It’s weird indeed.
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  48. Blue box for iOS has a feature that can decode DTMF tones. Try that one out.
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  49. Sounds akin to feedback from a microphone resting against a speaker while left open.
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  50. I have a license for both ham, and gmrs, so with that being said, I can use the uv5r for both services. Murs now, that’s a whole other ballpark. Because of lack of part 95. Certs, it’s also technically not legal to use it as a MURS radio but people do it anyway lol so basically,I contracted myself.
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