Comments by "John North" (@johnnorth9355) on "Ringway Manchester" channel.

  1. I am so grateful for you spending hours of your life on this so I only have to spend a few minutes lol.
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  2. You are just about to get the launch codes for armageddon when suddenly you hear "British Rail regrets that the 3.35 to Manchester will be delayed for 40 minutes and will no lnger have a buffet car due to equipment shortage. Due to the limited delay no refunds will be available".
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  3. Want to drive your enemies crazy ? Wrap an imaginary mystery up in an enigma and let it run for years.
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  4. I have been dogged for many years by a high powered female voice. Ah well back to the chores.
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  5. Just want to say in case events spiral that it has been a pleasure listening to you over the years Lewis.
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  6. Nothing quite as strange as folk trying to stop others from their legitimate hobby. Sadly the modern day equivalent is easily heard on the airwaves. They say power corrupts - absolutely right . 73
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  7. The most important messages are best hidden in plain sight. It is perhaps the simple symbolic sequence and type of content that forms the message ? We live in dangerous times. I sometimes joke about the boredom of number stations but they are no joke I suspect.
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  8. I am naturally sceptical about claims that support or pooh pooh concerns and prefer to look at evidence especially any changes in the population that can seen seen over a period of time. In my mind there is a clear correlation between the use of mobile phones and the general increase in stupidity of the population as evidenced over the past two decades. I challenge anyone to dispute this. 73. M7BLC
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  9. You are very mistaken - the biggest mystery in Short Wave radio is how I feel compelled to keep spending money on stuff on the off chance I just might need it for my next project (that never materialises !). Come armageddon I might just have the vital bits needed to get in contact with everyone - oh err I think I have just found the flaw in this plan.
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  10. I have bought a case of Jack Daniels just in case the SHTF. I will be fine.
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  11. The HF bands are full of weird stuff and it is increasing. That there may be method behind the madness is very concernng as it suggests that things may be coming to a head ?
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  12. What was once a vitally important piece of technology (to someone) is now just rust. Such is the march of progress. I am sure there is an important lesson to be learnt.
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  13. Oh dear - I do not have a good feeling about all of this. We should all ask officially for an explanation but I am not sure we will want to hear the answer.
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  14. The radio broadcasts completely passed me by at the time. I guess I was leading a sheltered life ? Good job we have Lewis to keep us up to speed these days 🙂.
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  15. Some of us may think that dead air is preferable to some of the rubbish that fills out the programming of some broadcasters ?
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  16. In my youth in the 1960's I used to huddle down in my bedroom with my old second hand radio set and listen to radio London and Caroline together with a raft of other stations including Luxenberg (who could forget Mike Raven's Blues show !) as an essential part of my musical education. Medium wave was always best in the daytime - night brought all kinds of interference and noise which my old set succumbed to all too readily. I get pirate radio but sadly my musical tastes are firmly locked back in time .
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  17. My feet are staying firmly on the ground !
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  18. I have started scanning AM CB and Ham frequencies and it is clear that there is still a hardcore of users (over this side of the pond but especailly the US) that love the modulation type and I must admit I am being drawn in too. M7BLC.
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  19. I have the perfect solution for all of the weird stations - I just don't listen to them. Clearly someone want's to send a message to us. I'm not listening. Good job we have you to do that for us Lewis 🙂.
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  20. Not much chance of a music copyright strike there !
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  21. I have no real interest in numbers stations per se but pictures of overflowing steins of beer I greatly approve of and could watch for ages. This perhaps explains why I am totally unsuited to spying .
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  22. I don't think anyone in ordinary life really understands how close to global conflict and disaster the world is coming to. The circumstantial threads of evidence are all around but overwhelm the senses so that their significance is lost. This is perhaps another clue that we should pay more attention to ?
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  23. Can they please all stay clear of the ham bands ? Getting fed up of the nuisance. M7BLC.
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  24. Sad reflection of the world we live in.
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  25. Is the opening statement a mea culpa ? In which case I own up to being one of those who assiduously watch your videos on the buzzer even though I really don't know why lol.
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  26. Obviously loved their Hillman Hunters ? Can't be all bad 🙂.
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  27. Is OFCOM allowing the death of all local radio should be the question. (there is no local radio anymore other than pirate stations).
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  28. We the public take communication for granted. Lewis provides us with the evidence that we really should not be so complacent. Far more effort goes into it than the public would believe. Excellent work.
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  29. Yes sounds just like the washing machine I used back then as a student. I always put it down to my self walking socks and dirty underwear arguing and protesting at being washed lol.
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  30. I will sleep much better tonight knowing that this mystery is now solved. 🙂
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  31. All passed by my event horizon - must have been down the pub ?
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  32. As a frequent flyer during the period in question I had no idea this was going on. Ignorance is bliss as they say.
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  33. As a new ham with only a UV5R at present repeaters are my natural goto for communicating but I have already experienced people keying up over my transmissions with more power to block what I am saying. I have resisted the temptation to lambast but sadly whilst most hams are great people the M7 callsign seems to attract a disgruntled few. 73.
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  34. Good grief - there is no way you are getting me up in the air on a hang glider just to get a bit of extra distance !!!
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  35. Blimey and theres me still stuck on classic hits !
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  36. All kinds of weird stuff on the HF bands these days including me making a 40 m QSO with a YouTuber. As I said - WEIRD STUFF ! M7BLC.
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  37. I still prefer my long wire antenna 🙂.
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  38. Just letting the wife they will be home for dinner ?
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  39. Pirate ? Must have nerves of steel - me I would tremble at every slight noise in the night or person walking behind me in quiet places.
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  40. Fantastic detail but now just history. The march of time and technology waits for no one.
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  41. Back in the good old days of 2G I used to insist on holidaying in signal blackspot areas of the country, The instant relief from headaches was unbelievable and created an enormous boost to my health and wellbeing for the period of my holiday. I guess the staff got a reciprocal boost of unpleasant symptoms ?
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  42. Musical genius - always noticeable by it's absence.
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  43. I would have loved to listen to this all the way through but I fell asleep soon after starting. I guess number stations have this effect on me ?
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  44. Interesting but I have enough to get my head around at the moment as a newbie without even more bands lol. Got to stop my brain going blank when the surprise of people actually replying to me on dx happens :-). 73 M7BLC
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  45. I have the perfect solution - I have no intention of joining meshtastic 🙂.
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  46. I was rather hoping for a new mystery Russian transmitter . A well .
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  47. Lifes too short now for me to waste time on other peoples chatter.
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  48. I have calculated the amount of coax I would need to connect my home qth to Saffron Green's antennas. Sadly it is unaffordable. 73
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  49. Brilliant photographs - I love these historically important photos which reflect a past that is rapidly becoming obscured by the passage of time.
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  50. I remember it well. A time of great excitement that rapidly degenerated into all kinds of nonsense that made CB virtually unusable. Strangely it is much better now that few still use it.
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  51. Given the public paranoia of late this probably should have been left undisclosed ?
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  52. Your long lost evil twin ? 73 .
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  53. No need to try and be modest - we all know what a superbeing you are 🙂. Great video - loved the views.
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  54. When you are invited to become part of someone elses fight RUN !
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  55. As a foundation student I found the description impossible to follow with far too many abbreviations delivered at speed lol but the transmission/receive demo was excellent. Thanks
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  56. You have got to love the Russian sense of humour (best done around a table sharing lots of vodka !).
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  57. I worked many years for B&H and they had a finger in a lot of pies.
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  58. Ah, but encryption is a bitch.
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  59. Indeed. I suspect a lot of proof of concept testing has gone on over the past years ? In the end we may all be forced to dump our battery tech as the reverse engineeering of whatever tech has been used makes the risks intolerable to the wider public.
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  60. Local radio ? RIP.
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  61. We can't use that - what about our highly expensive stealth aircraft ?
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  62. Listening on a radio - is that still a thing ?
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  63. The signals at the end vaguely reminded me of music I used to listen to at Uni in the 70's - only vaguely of course.
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  64. Somewhere in a galaxy far far away someone or something is writing a letter of complaint.
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  65. Your not fooling me - those are hotlines to the heavenly realms. The march of technology knows no limits.
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  66. Great stuff. I may actually get one ! (tweaked for 10 meters )
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  67. The present day equivalent ? High power stations with beam antennas shouting 59 continuously ? They seem to proliferate mainly at weekends 73 .
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  68. I have got to stop watching these Lewis - I get insane tower and antenna envy !
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  69. Good grief they were consuming some powerful stuff back then ! Not that most would remember now.
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  70. I have always had a licence and will continue to do so while required. I do object to having to have one just to fund the BBC which I view as a totally useless self serving organisation that has become institutionally profligate and corrupt. The government should throw it to the wolves by removing the licence fee requirement.
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  71. 5G is rubbish ! So says the man with a 4G phone :-)
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  72. Trains as well ? Is there no end to your talents Lewis ?
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  73. I understood every word - NOT !
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  74. Until I see a UFO and aliens I will remain a sceptic. I do believe we are subjected to psyops in this respect however.
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  75. Cut them some slack and find something useful to do away from the frequencies concerned would be my advice. We can all rub along together if we put our mind to it.
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  76. Ah the march of progress leaves all kinds behind.
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  77. What do you mean the Earth isn't flat Lewis ? ! OMG I think all this crazy radio stuff has gone to your head lol.
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  78. Has anyone ever been prosecuted for using over the horizon radar on the ham bands ?
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  79. Good to see community and local radio surviving Lewis. Sadly where I live it does not - killed off by the big players swallowing them up and shutting down the local studios.
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  80. Does anyone still watch mainstream TV ?
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  81. Eventually everyone will be spying on everyone being spied upon.
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  82. They will be putting moustaches and glasses on the next !
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  83. Just received my memory stick - now I need to buy a new radio as my UV5R does not cut it. LOL.
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  84. Family occasion ? Sorry can't make it I'm busy listening to weird stuff on the airways lol.
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  85. I guess just the Russians showing that anything a B52 can do from their UK base then they can do as well ?
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  86. Don't they realise I don't speak Russian !
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  87. Dad can we go play on the beach now ? lol.
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  88. I never use my UV5R for any length of time with the portable antenna. For nets etc I use an external antenna shielded from my body and head by distance and a metal plate. Even my mobile phone is used very sparingly. If your ear feels hot in use hang up asap !
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  89. Seems to be suffering from a lack of maintenance judging by the amount of green mould ?
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  90. Oh no, why do I get the feeling that (my) resistance is futile ? :-).
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  91. That's nothing. As a kid I used to use two cans and a length of string and I could hear my friend at the other end perfectly well LOL.
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  92. Sticking with my UV-5R
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  93. I have a slightly jaundiced view of secure comms tech in that it is an open invitation to those who mean no good to stay below the radar. We live in a very dangerous world at many different levels with law enforcement and the security services struggling against a lack of resources and an ever increasing workload. As a law abiding citizen I have never felt a compelling need to be off grid. Just saying.
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  94. Now I've got antenna envy lol.
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  95. Waste of time - they will be drowned out by the 1.5 kilowatt hams ( not to mention those who go above and beyond, si si lol).
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  96. State of the art in a recent ongoing conflict seems to be the Baofeng UV5R according to most videos. Cheap as chips !
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  97. Can they be trusted ?
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  98. Messing around with Andy Kirby ? He will have you on a E bike any day now lol .
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  99. By heck Lewis you do listen to some rubbish late at night ?
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  100. I fully agree - well worth a ride as my old legs can't get me back up the steep path easily. Sadly have not visited for seveal years now but must do soon whilst I can.
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  101. As I get uncomfortably near the end it amazes me how people can waste their time on useless stuff like putting these stations up. I know you find it interesting Lewis but surely there is much more interesting stuff they could be doing ? It's no good regretting wasted time when it's over. Just a thought .
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  102. God bless all those who lost their lives, friends and relatives. Suchan horrendous event.
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  103. More antenna envy. My wife will never let me have one of those masts in her garden !
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  104. If it ain't on during the day then I ain't listening ( I'll be in bed early lol).
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  105. The warm glow of these lamps late at night as I did many tens of thousands of miles each year up and down the country on business was a very comforting feature, especially in bad weather. I guess all things must pass ?
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  106. Colonel Douglas McGregor on Judge Naolitanos Judging Freedom channel clearly stated that it was the batteries and the US had this ability for some while but had never used it (apart from a case or two) because of the implications. Make of this what you will
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  107. Ah well. I guess I will just stick to the straight and narrow. Life is full of too much rubbish as it is.
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  108. The Government are absolutely the worst puchasing body you can trust with public money. Their insane desire to 'own' their own network is at the heart of the problem.The solution is staring them in the face but they will fail to spot it until all the money is gone. I am glad I am retired.
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  109. As a frequent flyer in the 80's and 90's I never complained about delays and re-routes. Safety and getting home safely were always the priority. I have had to stay over in some pretty dodgy places and hotels as a result .
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  110. Got mine at 3.05 but my wife did not get hers - same network but different make of phone. I also had two mobiles with no sims active set up but nothing on them either. This means the poor with no minutes could be left wanting as well. Blatant discrimination ?
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  111. I still have not learnt to use my phone camera properly ! I guess I'm not a nerd ? 73.
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  112. Them were the days when you could tell who the idiots were. These days the airwaves are full of digital and encrypted signals running mega power so that they sound next door but are thousands of miles away ! Sigh.
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  113. The next big thing - how many times have i heard that pitch . (every now and gain a real one comes along but how do you know ?).
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  114. The most mysterious cause other than mother nature of any accident or disaster is pure human stupidity. Natural selection is a brutal master.
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