Comments by "Mike H" (@Mike-H_UK) on "Ringway Manchester" channel.

  1. Brilliant. One day, I wouldn't be surprised if these videos get used for education on the history of radio. It great that you are documenting these antennas before nature reclaims them completely.
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  2. The police turn a blind eye when they are helped..... What about the Baker Street bank robbery where a radio amateur heard communications from the robbers and alerted the police. He was eventually convicted of illegally listening to radio broadcasts! Now that was more than a tad unfair....
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  3. I heard from someone at Cisco.(don't know how true this is) that there were some Cisco routers in the basement of one of the original WTC buildings. After the building collapsed, they continued pinging the outside world until the UPS battery became flat and they died. Pretty impressive if correct.
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  4. Submarines use Meshtastic on 869.525MHz. The range isn't always great, but if you get a few subs close together they can relay messages back to Blighty in a series of hops. My mate Bob (actually a woman) told me this, so it must be true.
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  5. It's great that you are documenting these for posterity before they all disappear completely. Cheers!
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  6. In order to obtain these recordings, Lewis must have put his Baofeng UV5R into Chinese mode and pressed the up/down arrows after having selected an option. That sounds much the same....
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  7. Yes please for a dedicated tour of the Buxton transmitting station!!
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  8. A separate phone call between Charles and Camilla was recorded and made public very shortly afterwards. The coincidence was too great. At the time I thought (and still do) that there was more to this than we knew.
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  9. Oh, come on Lewis. We can't all be as passionate and enthusiastic as you are.
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  10. You forgot to mention the repeater frequencies where I can swear at people at will and play 'The Laughing Policeman' 24/7. Seriously though, we got our money's worth with that video - you didn't pause for breath! Lots of great info as well and I liked the format of arranging by type of broadcast.
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  11. I know everyone has their own preference, but if you want to use your own radio rather than access someone else's via the internet, I would be very tempted to try a SDRPlay RSP1a. They are priced around £100 in the UK and allow reception on all bands from 1kHz to 2GHz, using all regular modulation modes (AM, FM, LSB, USB CW etc. In addition it has a spectrum plot, waterfall plot and a range of noise filters. One requirement is a computer or laptop with a USB connection, but most people can provide this. I have received just about all of the number stations available in the UK that Lewis has described with a SDRPlay RX and a small Wideband loop antenna.
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  12. No less than I would expect from a smooth criminal!!
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  13. I like listening to The Police. Message in a Bottle and Synchronicity are the best.
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  14. Very interesting. I can't remember if you have covered the Joan Eleanor (J-E) radio system. It was used by the OSS in WW2 so that spies on the ground could conmmunicate with reconnaissance aircraft. It was 260MHz (VHF) and AM and made by RCA. A very clever design.
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  15. I see that you live up to your name...
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  16. If they need another frequency for additional transmissions, I've heard that 1215kHz has recently become available for yet another 100kW transmission ;-)
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  17. Hi Lewis, Great video! I had two thoughts that I considered noteworthy, but you may want to disregard completely!: 1. Why not try it out with your radio and see how it degrades normal reception even though the woodpecker is not present? 2. Clive Mitchell (Bigclive) on his own YouTube channel does excellent product analyses and I'm sure he would love to have a look inside, reverse engineer it, make great comments and end it back to you in one piece!!
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  18. Another fantastic video Lewis. It is very interesting about the mystery jammer and the pilot tone. It was obviously someone quite technical. Probably something that the Andromeda crew had the expertise to do, (like Mr H.) but almost certainly not their style with an old friend.... Were the perpetrators ever identified later?
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  19. Using a very primitive set up with just a short wire antenna and an RSPduo SDR, I can pick up the LO from a small handheld MW radio about 5metres away - so not much. Has anyone any idea of the range with a more optimised set up (good directional antenna, LNA and a professional spectrum analyser)? I imagine that tube receivers with an attached outdoor antenna were also much better radiators.
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  20. Lovely building. One would hope that it can be saved from further deterioration. Making a building listed often means that it is just neglected until it falls apart and has to be demolished!
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  21. E24 - Allo Allo - Listen very carefully, I will say this only once.....
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  22. Please give me a list of all of the UK number stations to which I am not allowed to listen, and I will avoid listening to them in the future!! ;-)
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  23. Wow! 'Secrets of the Railways by Ringway Shenanigans.' Get in early to own the trademark before some blighter with a Saab beats you to it.
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  24. It would appear that Gordon was actually pretty good at his job. Another great video from Lewis - you have me waiting for the next installment.
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  25. I would listen to that occasionally on my crystal set. How could they think that saving the cost of a 200kW transmitter is reasonable I'll never know!
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  26. Maybe time for the return of the AM pirates if the official stations don't want their allocated frequencies!
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  27.  @RingwayManchester  Not to the viewers of this channel.....
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  28. Looking at this some more, it appears that Lewis's summary is accurate. Stubblefield did transmit audio without wires before anyone else, but he did not use electromagnetic waves (radio waves) but a time varying magnetic field. I suppose this means that it is not technically radio even though it was a major development in itself.
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  29. Makes a change from thinking about the service stations on the M1. 🙂
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  30. The SX1262 integrated circuit has a clamping mechanism to back off power to the antenna when an antenna mismatch is detected. So the danger in operating without an antenna is often overstated. See SX1262 data sheet, section 15.2 & 15.2.1 for more details.
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  31. Spectrum Communications is still running from the same address. I bought some ferrite cores from them a few months ago! Antony Nailer's call sign is g4cfy according to the data sheet for the ferrites that I bought. Small world!
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  32. Great video Lewis, but more bad news. When I design aperiodic magnetic loops for 200kHz to 20MHz operation, I have historically used R4 Droitwich on 198kHz, R5 Live (693kHz & 909kHz) and Talk Sport on 1053kHz for calibration purposes. Looks like I will need to think again!
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  33. Maybe Lewis will let you have a cameo role in the future if you speak nicely to him.....
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  34. Pirates stealing transmitters??? Well, that's no less than I would expect from pirates of the high seas.....
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  35. Yes please to more videos like this. They are very interesting and help identify antennas on other buildings close to where I live.
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  36. Another excellent video Lewis. I'm surprised that the DF was accurate enough to pinpoint the house from any reasonable distance away, enabling them to subsequently search it, but maybe the antenna at the back gave the game away. Still, finding the TX behind the bath panel was far better detective work than I would expect from the police these days.
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  37. I'm gonna have to tune into Johnny Tobacco. He sounds like an interesting guy!
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  38. What is less well known is that there was a feature as part of the diagnostics in analogue cellphones during the early 1990s to remotely activate the transmitter section when the phone was linked to a basestation. Actually, this was part of a whole suite of interesting but not particularly sinister debug features. I often wondered what covert use was made of this feature.
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  39. All true, but worth mentioning that even though you can open up communication on a repeater 72 miles away, that doesn't mean than the signal received from your transmitter is intelligible enough to be understood once forwarded.....
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  40. Probably worth disconnecting the power first...
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  41. I think Bill Clinton also had a CB radio while at The White House. Apparently, the handheld transceiver called the ''President Randy' was named after him, but I am not 100% sure about that.
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  42.  @nicc5122  Thanks. Yes, I bet the museum is interesting. I last visited NY after the 9/11 attack when it was still being debated what would happen to the site. What you say sounds very reasonable. Interestingly, I was visiting TI in Dallas at the time of the 9/11 attack, and, in the morning, was doing a UK colleague a favour by checking out the feasibility of accessing UK servers from a laptop PC in another continent using ADSL/VPN and performing graphic-intensive chip design. That was fairly new in 2001. Of course, the internet was totally clogged up, and the only phone call that I could make to the UK was on the dedicated company lines, so the experiment was totally inconclusive!! I'll never forget that day!!
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  43. The British called it 'Transmitter Under Rectal Detritus' or TURD for short.
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  44. Not only is it a shame, but since the LW transmitter at Droitwich is the only one that can cover most of the UK when on on maximum power, it takes away a single point of communication to most of the nation in times of national crisis.
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  45. A dual-feature video with Jon would be great. Just make sure that he does not buy you a Christmas pressie from the motorway services......
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  46. This may well have been a compromise antenna, but what was a better indoor antenna for people so constrained?
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  47. indeed, It isn't a particularly plausible sequence of events.
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  48.  @simonneep8413  Blessed are the antenna makers for they shall inherit the roof space.
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  49. When someone has a medical emergency and needs to make an 999 call then an antenna on a church roof is certainly helping someone in need. Besides, what harm does it do? Churches need money to survive.
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  50. Captain Pugwash was pirate TV.
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  51. I hear a signal that sounds like the brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr of a petrol lawnmower. It's strongest on a Sunday afternoon in summer, and it's sometimes audible in the early evenings as well. I never hear it in winter. You can pick it up on all bands.
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  52. Another well researched and interesting video, Lewis.
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  53. Lewis, you're drone lives dangerously being in such close proximity to all that RF. But you know that, so I assume it is a calculated risk!! Thanks for pulling this together, I know it's a lot of work, but it is very interesting.
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  54. Wow, another great video! I am impressed that the trough has been on the mast since 1969 and has survived 50+ years of environmental abuse at that altitude! Quick question for suitably minded people.... I notice that some of the microwave dishes are contained within a drum shaped housing (not really a radome). Others are contained within a more conical arrangement. Is there a reason for choosing one over the other? All I can think is that the drum provides easier coverage of a horn type assembly at the cost of increased wind loading. The conical arrangement perhaps needs a simpler feed arrangement buts more aerodynamic with lower wind loading. Is this thinking in the right direction or is there a totally different explanation?
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  55. Welcome back! I was beginning to miss your videos... Another great short film, many thanks.
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  56. I'm surprised that the three helical antennas (log periodic?) for countermeasures are not enclosed in a radome because it is easy to identify what frequency range they are targeting from their dimensions. Perhaps they are not expecting most illegal operators to modify the drone's communication system to try and defeat them... UPDATE - they probably don't need to hide the inhibitor frequencies because they are well known and publicised: 433MHz, 915MHz, 2.4GHz, 5.8GHz and GNSS.
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  57. Andy, I hate to say this, but I don't think he loves you......
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  58.  @gingermongoose100  Yes please!
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  59. Doesn't everyone alive on the planet fit this bill?
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  60. You're right - I've never heard of this before. Thanks for the video.
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  61. Yes please - more footage on the Trafford Park Railway.
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  62. When I was a kid, one of our neighbours has a dodgy TV that broadcast the sound of the programme they were watching onto the bottom of the FM band. It was fun listening to what they were watching, although I think the main programme they watched was Emmerdale Farm as it was called in those days.
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  63. Great video, but you forgot to 'add the link to the description below...'
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  64. I'm very happy for Lewis to review stuff that is outside my price range in order to provide me a higher level of awareness. On a similar note, I'm happy for him to review number stations when I don't intend to set up one of these either. 🙂Seven, three, oblique...
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  65. That's what I thought!!!
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  66. Looking forward to the FRD-10 video. I was aware that there were differences between the AN/FDR-10 and AN/FLR-9 but had never got around to investigating the details.
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  67. Sounds like the material for series 2...... :-)
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  68. Another great video Lewis. These really are extremely high quality productions.
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  69. Great video & very interesting. Was it just me, or did other people have a lot more adverts interrupting the video than usual?
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  70. Very good video - as is usual. Do you actually have any of these transmitters yourself, or did you only manage to get the photos? I'm just wondering whether they are more 'openly' available these days....
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  71. I think it's mutual and historical. Mr Macron is certainly a good example.....
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  72. I concluded that there is much more to this circuit than a simple audio blanker when I saw that both SO239 and phono sockets were on the back. Why are the RF sockets needed for a pure audio blanker? I think the problem with 'only' an audio blanker is that the RF front-end will overload , produce intermodulation distortion and create a period of poor reception in the radio for a number of milliseconds as the AGC recovers. So I strongly suspect that this box is a two stage solution that blanks (gates out) the strong pulses from the RF by using a threshold comparator to create a dead zone in the RF and a final 'mopping up' stage in the AF. This slightly more complicated approach explains the larger number of components than a single audio notch filter and also the requirement of an external power supply.and the SO239 sockets. After the time that the Datong product was developed, single-chip, two-stage blanker solutions came out, for example the Allegro Microsystems 3845.
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  73. Great video - very informative. Many thanks Lewis and Uncle K. I was wondering if Killer may have taken the transmitter that Aquarius lost on the hill, but suspect that this would have been way before his time.
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  74. Did it work on the girl?
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  75. Are you saying that he is not Roger?
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  76.  @MaxStax1  That's often the case. I have a number of patents from various companies. The patents are in my name, but the company that paid for the work owns the IP.
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  77. Cheers Lewis. It's good to see that other people have as much old electronics as I do!!!!! By the way, what was the reason for the solar panels own the van roof? And don't say it was an electric vehicle that propels itself on a sunny day....
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  78. Great mini-series Lewis. I'm almost sad that it has finished.
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  79. Merry Christmas Lewis. 🙂
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  80. Que?
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  81.  @RingwayManchester  Yes. And then a separate phone call between Charles and Camilla was recorded and made public very shortly afterwards. The coincidence is too great. At the time I thought (and still do) that there was more to this than we knew.
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  82. Yep, I find these transmitter videos interesting and would like more of them. Thanks for producing them.
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  83. Thats only for QRP and children. I want the megawatt handheld ;-)
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  84. Great video Lewis. You've done some great background work making these videos very informative and also addictive. It reminds ne of the old joke: "how do you keep an idiot in suspense?" "I'll tell you tomorrow!"
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  85. Cheers Lewis - another great video. Back in the day I had a 2 channel, 200mW Amstrad handheld transceiver, but we lived on a hill so I could nearly always receive something and often find someone who could also hear me!
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  86. Did you try flying your drone over the site? Or is in an exclusion area?
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  87.  @PlutoTheGod  Probably not radio itself, but everything moves forward (crystal sets, vacuum tube (valve) radios, etc).
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  88. Great stuff Lewis and Andy. Looking forward to part 3 when I expect Inspector Morse will be on secondment from Oxford.
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  89. Maybe because if the jamming signal is available as a clean source from the regular transmitter (without being superposed on the signal that it is jamming), then it is possible to scale it, delay it, and subtract from the signal being jammed to provide a clean copy of the original signal. That's one reason why white noise is a good choice of modulation for jamming because is has no discernable artefacts that can be filtered out or subtracted away.
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  90. Are you the same Andy Howlett with whom I've discussed antenna comparisons and measurements on SDRplay groups? If so, small world!
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  91. Great couple of videos Lewis. I'm guessing that this activity is completely separate from the Aquarius and Andromeda guys who were also active in the 1970s and early 80s in the Manchester area.
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  92.  @sunnysidegardeners7163  and incompetence.
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  93.  @RingwayManchester  Oh, I thought they were saying that the monitoring was MI6 rather than MI5 (or vice versa). MI5 and MI6 apparently refer to each other as 'neighbours'. I took it that the reply was a friendly way of letting Martin know that he was still being monitored (how else would they know it was him) and a reminder to continue 'behaving' himself. Maybe I've read too much Ben Mcintyre......?
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  94. Another excellent video, Lewis! Many thanks! Maybe an interesting future topic would be the move to VHF/FM transmissions in the UK following the end of the second major world disagreement. There was a lot of interesting technical R&D involved.
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  95.  @richiehoyt8487  A handwritten letter is a good way of checking someone's basic literacy, command of the English language and breadth of vocabulary. Also, since it takes a while to write a good letter, it helps weed out the non-serious, speculative applicants.
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  96. Chain home operated on 22-50MHz so no magnetrons were involved in the demise of these gulls!
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  97. Great video Lewis! I'm surprised that the missus doesn't kick up a fuss when you start photographing masts when on holiday; I know that I would have a hard time. Anyway, this is a great technical video and a fine reply to Andy Kirby's intro featuring the Steelyard/Duga OTHR. Andy will now need to up his game (which I'm sure he will do....)
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  98. Or Jimmy Savile on R2. Now then, now then, now then......
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  99. Great update. Now back to Meshtastic!
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  100. Very interesting. Many thanks for bringing this to our attention!
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  101. Bravo Lewis! Great video.
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  102. Lewis, not much that is related to radio in the Manchester area passes you by!! :-)
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  103. Great programme Lewis.
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  104. I found this video useful because it pointed out the absurdity of a law which, if broken, in most cases, has no detrimental effect, is next to impossible to detect if the listener does not voluntarily admit to the offence and for which the law is almost impossible to enforce. I, for one, did not know this before, but I am not a licensed radio amateur, and I am receptive to Lewis' 'free' education.
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  105.  @laurensvisser7623  Thanks, that's a good data point. A good set up with an antenna designed for DF will be a bit better than this. So it may get to within a few houses rather than 200m.
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  106. Another great video, Lewis. I love the icy photos that are included - great touch!
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  107. Great video Lewis. Do I detect the start of a new series?
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  108. So.... does that mean that when you are listening to marine traffic on the Manchester Ship Canal that you are strictly speaking committing a crime?
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  109. Very interesting video Lewis. It's great that you pull all of this information together.
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  110. Great video Lewis, much appreciated. Keep up the good work.
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  111. Another excellent video. I especially liked the final picture with everything summarised in one place.
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  112. Cheers Lewis, another great video. I did the sums a few days ago, and I typically watch more of you, Andy Kirby, Paul Knox, and Big Clive (combined) than the entirety of the BBC, ITV & Channel 4. Sobering thought, eh?
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  113.  @AutoShenanigans  Haven't you got a motorway to visit? :-)
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  114. Great video, again. I was so tempted to ask "What about Duga-4 and Duga-5?": but thought it would be pushing the joke too far.....
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  115. I live by the Red Lion pub.
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  116.  @kirkhamandy  I agree that the electronics won't be fried; however, I was thinking more about saturating the GPS front end or causing high IMD products so that it instantaneously loses GPS lock and crashes before it can reacquire the satellites. I recall in an earlier episode a loss of control of the drone happened near transmission discs close to the Granada Studios.
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  117. It seems a bit harsh to have disqualified G3CXX over the clicks!!!
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  118. Hi Lewis, what range did these 10mW walkie-talkies have?
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  119. Lucky you!
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  120. Blessed are the cheesemakers..... and Biggus Dickus, of course!
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  121. My wife says that I have a leaky feeder. It likes to go in a tunnel, but it's not 400m long.
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  122.  @ammocraft  But they (Leslie Jagger) fixed it before the owners came back the next morning!
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  123. I don't suppose you could read the combination being entered? ;-)
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  124. Verry interesting, but I start to feel dizzy just looking at the top of the tower from the drone shot......!
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  125.  @Aquatarkus96  daytime tv for the cat through the illuminated door!
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  126. Great video. I'm impressed that you managed to get hold of one of these phones in such good condition with plastic still protecting.the display..
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  127.  @RCAvhstape  I once flew to San Francisco airport, and when I walked through the arrivals area where the drivers had board with people' names on them, I noticed one for 'Monica Lewinsky'. With hindsight, I wish I'd waited a few minutes to see if it was the same person, but I was knackered and wanted to get to me hotel room!!!
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  128.  @TheMajkla  Yes, I heard him earlier tonight from Northants in the UK. A pretty strong signal.
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  129.  @TheMajkla  I tried listening tonight (17 Aug) and commenting on HFU, but there was terrible interference.
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  130. Very interesting - many thanks.
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  131. Lewis, I would be very interested in a field trial.
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  132. Can't be her, she died recently.
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  133. where is was made before - just it will be more expensive.
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  134. Any chance of you using a banana for scale purposes?
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  135. Yes, I asked myself the same question when I saw that both SO239 and phono sockets were on the back. I think the problem with 'only' an audio blanker is that the RF front end will overload , roduce intermodulation distortion and create a period of poor reception in teh radio as the AGC recovers. So I strongly suspect that this is a two stage solution that removes the strong pulses from the RF by using a threshold comparator to create a dead zone in both the RF and AF. The dead zone length following the comparator triggering is set by the 10Hz or 16Hz button. This slightly more complicated approach explains the larger number of components than a single notch filter and also the requirement of an external power supply.
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  136. Very funny!
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  137. Does anyone know what the white cylinder at the top of the mast is? Is it just a covering of the tower structure? If so, why is it just covering the top section. I\m assuming that it is too big to be transmission related.
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  138.  @Richardincancale  Many thanks. That makes good sense.
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  139. I enjoy comparing the old and recent photos to try and spot anything remaining. Not much here apart from some road outlines....
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  140. Nice mug! (No, not your face!)
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  141. Another excellent video, Lewis.
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  142.  @scottlarson1548  The leaking of the two calls so close together always struck me as an attempt to discredit both Charles and Diana. I'm no detective, but the people who would seem to gain most from this are hostile foreign governments, anti-monarchy organisations and possibly Prince Andrew. Another possibility would be a blackmail plot aimed at C & D that was non-forthcoming. I tend to suspect (1).
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  143. Cheers Lewis - another fine video and thanks again for taking the time. Do you plan to make a video with the two CBs that Knoxieman repaired? That would be fun to watch.
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  144.  @rootuser64  Yep, they can use google and YouTube 🙂
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  145.  @almostfm  Agreed. There there is also transmitter & mast maintenance and depreciation, rent of land etc. So probably no change from £150-200k per year. There was a mild hint at sarcasm in my comment, but the cost is obviously very high and much more expensive than an internet link and high-grade server.
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  146. I was a bit surprised too see the coax mounted below the hollow horizontal beams using standoffs rather than running inside the tube. It probably doesn't matter much, but the tube would provide some environmental protection.
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  147. I've heard about people stalking famous actress but never a cargo ship!!
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  148.  @RingwayManchester  I guess when you film an antenna we'd never notice 🙂
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  149. Great job Lewis. You know about so many pirates you'll soon be known as Blackbeard!!
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  150.  @eliotmansfield  Yeah, possibly not the best idea on reflection.....
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  151. @Uncle K the Reverend Cheers, I wouldn't make a good detective!
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  152. Another great video Lewis. And now I know that a Plessey Pusher is not a drug dealer!!
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  153. Do you know what company makes this antenna? I am assuming that it is not Huawei....
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  154. Actually, it possible to detect radio receivers that are listening and not transmitting. However, if the listener switches between broadcasts quite quickly (as is often the case with scanners) it makes detection much more difficult.
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  155. That's the sort of illegal activity I would normally only expect from Kirby.
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  156. Great video Lewis. Looking forward to your face-face interviews!
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  157. Looking forward to Sunday!
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  158. So, if Radio 4 is not used to give orders to the submarines, do you think that they might use Radio 2 instead? I'm thinking that there must be some highly secret reason why those programmes are still being transmitted.....
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  159. Is that a copy of the SSC Confidential plan v9 at the end? They are as rare as hens' teeth!
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  160. Fantastic video Lewis. Again, very well researched. I found some map references on globalsecurity and traced a number of the sites for fun.. It also explains a bit about the use of the Krug rings.
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  161. Not bad, but I think you should have checked how well they operated when underwater!
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  162. Does that mean that I am also a nerd for watching this video?
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  163. Lewis, you've convinced us. We will throw out all of our dangerous radios!! ;-)
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  164. Uncle K would have been up the mast and stolen the rig.....
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  165. It is wicked, sweet, awesome if I am not very much mistaken!! It is interesting how many people view both YouTube channels....
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  166. Speak for yourself. I want to survive in order that I can send 228 character messages to all of my friends telling them where I am.
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  167.  @richiehoyt8487  It's certainly an interesting subject about how much one can gleam from these seemingly small preferences. Back in the early 1990s, when home PCs and printers were more of a rarity, and I worked for a large company, applicants normally applied for graduate jobs by filling in an application form. Completing the forms properly took about a day (poss. more) since the applicant would almost certainly have to consider their answers very carefully in advance to fit their handwritten responses in the boxes provided. Just about every applicant that we had was appropriate, and we could consider every application carefully because there were not too many of them. Every applicant got a custom reply from the HR department. Fifteen years later when the company had moved over to a CV based recruitment approach, along with the rest of the profession, we were inundated with CVs every week, most of which were speculative and inappropriate. We had to hire junior HR officers to sift through the applications, and only the lucky few that we wanted to consider further now got a reply! It is interesting how times change. My niece is in her final year at university and applying for jobs. The companies are providing her with questions in advance and asking for her to make a video of her answering them. That will take some time as well and perhaps cut down speculative applications somewhat. Maybe we have gone in a full circle?
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  168. Anything relating to CB is of interest to me.
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  169.  @AdamosDad  Thanks, I'll assume that that is about as good as can be obtained if ECM equipment is used.
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  170. That's a really neat, great looking radio companion. I wonder what her name is?
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  171. I like transmitters, trains and other geekery, but please don't tell anyone.
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  172. Very well researched video - many thanks.
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  173. You could always try selling them on to Knoxieman as a different type of vintage CB radio....?
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  174. I imagine that there is a link between these guys and the Andromeda guys.
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  175. There is an interesting restaurant in Capitola, California called Shadowbrook that is accessed by a small funicular railway., I wonder if they had as many problems as this? I remember having to descend there once by foot because of maintenance work.
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  176. Looking forward to part 2...
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  177. Great video, Lewis. I tried replying in the format of a number station message, but YouTube removed my post!
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  178. Why? Nothing that they said was incorrect - they had the tapes to back it up!
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  179. If Kirby's drones get jammed then I imagine you will be the prime suspect!
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  180.  @TheMajkla  I don't know whether my problems were local, but they were really bad at around the time JT moved from 6300 to 6285. Do you know if he is on tomorrow (Sunday)? Thanks, Mike.
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  181. There was also the 'Cobra Mist' OTHR project in Suffolk, UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_Mist
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  182. Comrade Lewis is a Russian spy trying to lull us all into a false sense of security. 🙂
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  183. Damn criminals. They were all fortunate not to be taken to a place of execution and hanged from the neck until they were dead.
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  184. Got it! There are quite a few amateurs in Bolton Massachusetts. Which group are you in? Hopefully we can have a howdy do sometime.
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  185. 'kin 'ell.....
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  186. 10% extra free!
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  187.  @knoxieman  hey, I didn’t know you followed these as well!!
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  188. Merry Christmas Lewis, Ho, Ho, Ho....
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  189. Shakespeare?
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  190. Jamming the Olympics - that's one for Russia to try!!
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  191. Was it yes or no? Just wondering!
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  192.  @notsorandumusername  Ahhhh!!
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  193. Don't you have a motorway to get back to? ;-)
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  194. Does anyone know about any more stories about 'Martin' that are available online? I assume that Martin isn't his real name, so I can't search for that!!.
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  195.  @RingwayManchester  Thanks for getting back. It's a shame that more isn't available, but I can see why 'Martin' wants to be discreet.
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  196.  @RingwayManchester  Yes, I can see why information relating to the Royal Family or politicians (for example) may not want to be readily available to the IRA.....
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  197. Wow!! It is interesting that you have no old/vintage radios, but this is still a massive collection.
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  198.  @RingwayManchester  That's the spirit!!!
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  199.  @petesmith2234  That's my kind of joke...
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  200. I've only recently subscribed and started binge watching these videos! Congratulations on the shack - it looks great!
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  201. Lewis, this is another fantastic video. You really do great research. Cheers!
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  202. Another good 'un Lewis. Many thanks.
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  203. Another great video Lewis, many thanks again!
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  204. OK, put us out of our misery! Why did you mirror the drive thru scene? It didn't seem to achieve anything!
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  205.  @ddegn  Congratulations! That was a quick courtship at ~7 weeks!
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  206.  @boilerroombob  Agreed,. I read 'Spycatcher' many years ago and loved reading about MI5's activities against the eastern-bloc countries. I guess you have read that book too. I don't believe that Rafter ever caught an actual spy, although it got close on at least one occasion. Mind you, it did give MI5 the information that the Soviets knew that they were investigating Lonsdale. (Lionsbeard - Refter monitoring of the RX radios in the Russian enbassy).
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  207. I didn't see the Audi TT anywhere? ;-)
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  208. Not much activity for me either, but MQTT is quite useful to keep the interest until things pick up. I know it kinda defeats the object...
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  209. Hi Lewis, Yes more videos on this subject would be very interesting. This was a very interesting and informative video. Also, if you do know what model/approach some of these repeater antennas are, it would be good if you could call them out. Cheers & welcome back to the UK!
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  210. Another great video Lewis, many thanks!
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  211. One hundred kay....... Well done, but you could have had that plane trace out something more imaginative.
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  212. The GPO seemed to become very good at finding you. Do you think that this was all down to excellent DF or do you think that they used phone taps / following key cars when broadcasts were due etc. Two elements puzzle me about the GPO success. One was them finding the TX behind the bath panel when the house was empty by the time they arrived, if I understood Lewis correctly. The second was related to Andromeda and the removal of the TX without lying in wait for the user to return. Maybe for this they just got bored waiting... Anyway a great mini-series.
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  213.  @andyhowlett2231  Cheers. I had wondered if someone had been tipping off Gordon, but not considered the possibility that other pirates would be stealing your equipment. Mind you, I suppose this is what pirates do on the open sea.....
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  214. Another great video - cheers!
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  215. No, the other antennas point to Derby County....
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  216. Looking forward to the next video testing the range!
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  217. Another interesting video - many thanks!
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  218. If you have jam tomorrow then in a day's time, won't you have jam today? ;-)
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  219. Wow! Andy Kirby did a video on exactly this subject. What a coincidence, man!
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  220.  @dafoex  Thank God that someone got it....
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  221. Probably had good coverage close to the motorways.....
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  222. The pigtail length is 4" or 10cm.
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  223. Too small for a flipping SINAD meter.... :-)
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