Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "Ringway Manchester" channel.

  1. The grainy photos of the buildings and images of the decaying sites go good with the creepiness of the radio signal. I'd love to hear from any Germans who actually cooked up that final message, I bet they were aware of how creepy their broadcast sounded and had some fun with it on their last day on the job.
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  2. Shocked by transmitted power from a mile away. Nicola Tesla smiles upon us.
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  3. "You're under arrest for burning a cell tower." "Wait, let me call my lawyer." Call doesn't get through.
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  4. I hope AM radio never dies here in the US. I love using old tube and transistor radios and keeping them running. There's something cool about using a machine that's well over half a century old to listen to modern news broadcasts.
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  5. When the cops ask you how you found out about the UFO landing, just tell them you saw it in the sky and followed it down to the airfield.
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  6. Side note, a tone that sounds like it is continuously rising or falling but never goes out of audible range is known as a "Shepard Tone" and is commonly used for effect in horror movies or action films. I suppose that tones phasing in and out of each other can produce the illusion of a Shepard tone and that's it's a byproduct of these digital signals, but of course I'm just guessing and don't really know what I'm talking about.
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  7.  @tc25d  Her channel is great, and she did some crazy stuff. Hope she's okay out there somewhere.
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  8. Great video, love this spooky stuff! There is a well-known "hidden message" (not hidden well at all) in the Rush instrumental "YYZ", where the opening riff is the morse code for the Toronto airport radio navigation beacon, YYZ, of course. Story is that guitarist Alex Lifeson has a pilot's license and was flying the band into Toronto, and had his comnav radio tuned to the beacon. Drummer Neil Peart thought the morse code was a cool rhythm, and since Toronto was the band's home town, they built a whole track around it.
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  9. That was awesome. I wonder if anyone has ever tracked down the lady whose voice was sampled for that station. She's a legend. Someone should make a gritty spy thriller film set in the 1970s based on the Poacher. Or maybe a miniseries.
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  10. This is the first I've heard of this dirt stupid idea. Kudos to you for having the patience to make a video addressing it.
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  11. How do they change the bulb? Simple, disconnect all the cables, unbolt the tower from the pedestal, tip it over with a crane, unscrew the bulb, then reverse the process. Easy peasy. I should add that this only works on older towers. Newer towers, when the light burns out you just throw the tower away and buy a new one.
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  12. You're doing a great job with this channel, RM, keep up the good work!
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  13. Congrats, RM, shortwave has become interesting once again, and you are one of the main reasons!
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  14. The cuckoo clock one is hilarious. I imagine if you are a spy trying to listen to that it does not inspire confidence that you are part of a well-run operation.
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  15.  @fretlessfender  In North Korea to this day being caught with an unapproved receiver gets you into big trouble.
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  16. The tips of the propeller blades are supersonic, which is why it's so loud. Basically a bunch of constant sonic booms around each engine.
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  17. I don't know how relevant this is, but maybe someday you could do a video or a series on the radio noises coming from Saturn and other celestial objects. NASA's Cassini probe sent back the creepiest signals I've ever heard, picked up by its sensors inside Saturn's magnetosphere. NASA slowed them down to audio rate and posted them on the web back in the 2000s and I made the mistake of listening to it in a dark room alone late at night. 1950s Forbidden Planet type sound effects. Also, at least one Apollo crew picked up weird signals on their radio while orbiting the Moon, thought to be a heterodyne whistle perhaps. A video about the radio systems used for Apollo comms might be cool, too.
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  18. I can't be the only one who had anxiety at you putting your radio gear on the railing over the water.
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  19. One thing to remember is that in the US for about five years or so after the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks, anyone seen hanging around anywhere taking photographs was treated like some kind of potential terrorist. So whatever was going on at that site, it's no surprise these guys got chased away.
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  20. Not really related to any of these radios, but when I was growing up I got a build-it-yourself radio kit from Radio Shack that received, among other things, air band. It wasn't fancy and it used one of those weird clear plastic earphones every Radio Shack kit came with, but for a 10 year old it was awesome. It was a blue plastic console with a smoked glass plastic dust cover that you could see the electronic innards through. I had no idea what I was listening to, but the fact that I built a working radio and was listening to jetliners was so cool. I really miss Radio Shack.
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  21. This is like a pitch for a TV series about radio hobbyists who solve murders. Murder, She Transmitted.
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  22. I wonder how they know Leon Theremin designed it. Did he later admit to it? Interesting note about Theremin: he was a US resident and the KGB kidnapped him and forced him to go back to the USSR for many years. After the Cold War ended he returned to the US and reunited with his student, Clara Rockmore, considered the greatest Theremin player, before he died. There is a cool documentary about him out there.
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  23. In the process of trying to build my own antenna this afternoon...
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  24. Slight tangent: does anyone else miss those older websites with their crazy colors and designs from the days before social media funneled everyone into a small number of tech giant sites? I remember things like "web rings" and so on, when surfing the internet was fun and a little crazy.
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  25. And we have today's Pin of Shame! lol
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  26. 6:27 I hope UFO guy had that facial hair setup registered with the Ministry of Silly Beards.
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  27. This reminds me of a 1986 movie called Riders of the Storm starring Dennis Hopper. It's a comedy about a bunch of psy op Vietnam vets who operated a station out of an old B-29 Superfortress in Vietnam, and after the war kept the aircraft and use it to broadcast pirate radio and TV in the 1980s. They decide their last mission is to prevent the election of a war-mongering woman. It's not the best movie ever made but it's very much of its time and the concept of a flying pirate broadcast operation is a fun one to contemplate. I remember my dad renting the VHS tape back in the day.
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  28. You are not weaklings. Not all of you. You just took good life for granted and the evil snuck in and took hold. You will have to work be rid of it now. And it's not just you. All Western countries are facing this problem right now.
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  29. Cold War equipment like this is fascinating.
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  30. Same thing I thought. "Good job, professor, you've shown that a cat still acts like a cat while the transmitter is on."
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  31. Asking people not to be jerks on the internet is likely to be as effective as asking people not to look at pr0n or cute cat pictures. But you're not wrong. Where I live the cops went digital and possibly encrypted, and the fire department too, so my 125 is no longer usable for them, but I still have air, rail, and marine traffic at least. Public safety, in my opinion, shouldn't be encrypted. Some police activity needs to be, but the bulk of it, stuff like accidents and so on, should be in the clear for the public. One of my favorite photographers is a guy known as Weegee who, back in the 1940s, made his living by scanning New York City police radio in his car at night so he could drive to the crime scenes and get the photos. He was friendly with the police, and they never had a problem with him. I guess that sort of thing is old fashioned now.
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  32. Someone needs to break into that transmission and start playing Warpigs by Black Sabbath to go along with the air raid siren \m/
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  33. Plot twist: it IS a meteorological station, but not to report the weather, instead it CONTROLS the weather! (Cue X-Files theme)
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  34.  @connclissmann6514  I was thinking the same thing. There is no reason LEDs have to be so cold and harsh; they come in all colors nowadays.
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  35. That story about the cops stumbling onto it, asking for a shoutout, and then leaving it alone is pretty cool. I wish we had a pirate radio scene like that where I grew up, sounds like a blast.
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  36. In the US AM is still pretty important, especially out in the country away from the cities. I hope it never dies. I love listening to AM at night on long drives, scanning for stations to see how far away I can pick them up. If the conditions are right, you can hear stations hundreds of miles away for a while. There has been recent conflict over car manufacturers trying to remove AM from car radios and it upset a lot of people, I think Ford actually reversed the decision. A lot of people still listen to it.
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  37.  @RingwayManchester  Looks like you've got a live one on the line, time to reel him in!
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  38. I always wonder what the value of transmitting propaganda on SW is, given that such a small fraction of the population listens to SW these days.
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  39. *not
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  40. Seems odd not to keep plain old radio around as a backup. Internet and satellite puts you at the mercy of outside agencies to communicate, but when everything breaks down and the power goes out a battery or generator-powered radio will still work.
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  41. Mashing the baseplate into the ground with the car probably provides a pretty good ground, no?
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  42. Very cool. It has to be said that the Interceptor is much cooler-looking than the newer unit, has that 80s/90s futuristic thing going on. Good thing you're taking car of it.
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  43. The creepiness of SW radio makes it so awesome.
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  44. They already jailed a woman for silently praying on the street near a abt. clinic. She wasn't doing or saying anything, just standing there. A cop asked her what she was doing, and she told him she was praying inside her head. Jail.
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  45. The clock tick makes me think of the Cold War and the Twilight Zone. The whole station has a very 1950s atomic age vibe to it.
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  46. Yeah, but in England sunshine isn't really a huge threat most days.
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  47. It's like email Nigerian prince scams: sure it's obviously stupid, but there is a non-zero number of people out there who might fall for it.
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  48. Clever argument, but good luck getting a judge to buy that theory.
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  49. *emit
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  50.  @RingwayManchester  I love how you always pin the craziest or most belligerent posts on your videos.
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