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    Anonymous

      Share your HAM radio equipment and pictures here…

      #1272912
      pyross.
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        [ATTACH=CONFIG]85284[/ATTACH]

        #1272907
        General Lighting
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          this guy did not get past the goose shed, let alone to the radio shack 😉

          seriously though a tip to anyone else – we do not lock people off for no reason but if your internet connection or profiles are also regularly used for dubious activity, you will not stay here very long.

          BTW a lot of OM’s do lurk on this forum (many of them actually listen to the reggae!) and radio is a very multicultural and welcoming hobby by its very nature but they take a very dim view of people in far away parts of the world who use the Internet for spam and scams, as many of them also try and rip people off who are trying to buy radio equipment…

          #1272908
          General Lighting
          Moderator

            @pyɔross. 544560 wrote:

            [ATTACH=CONFIG]85284[/ATTACH]

            they’ve actually got the frequency correct :laugh_at:

            I already own a fair bit of receiving kit and once I’ve got my driving license (hopefully some time this year) I am actually going to get my callsign and amateur radio licenses (as the clubs you need to take your Foundation exam in are in Felixstowe or North Essex)…

            #1272911
            Mezz
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              HAM Radio

              Using police comms channels is illegal

              #1272913
              Deez
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                @Mezz 544577 wrote:

                Using police comms channels is illegal

                Its not illegal if you don’t get caught… 😉

                #1272909
                General Lighting
                Moderator

                  @Mezz 544577 wrote:

                  Using police comms channels is illegal

                  and wouldn’t make a great deal of impact on the cops anyway unless you got an airwave set and those (being similar to mobiles) are tracked and stunned (disabled) as soon as reported missing (though gangs have managed to get hold of them and have even infiltrated the contractors).

                  I’m not even sure what is happening to their old frequency allocation, if its not being flogged off for mobile broadband use (its too low down the band anyway) its most likely reallocated for the use of rentaguards, dock workers and other remaining users of analogue portable radio sets outside the mobile phone network.

                  you can actually buy former analogue Police radios in job lots from Ebay and many hams convert them to 70cm amateur band but if they are licensed there’s absolutely nothing illegal about it…. (converting the old 100 MHZ main sets to pirate FM transmitters in the 1990s is a different matter though….)

                  #1272910
                  General Lighting
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                    @DeezNuts 544578 wrote:

                    Its not illegal if you don’t get caught… 😉

                    many years ago (around 1987/88) me and my mates built this low power FM transmitter from a design from a London anarchists magazine which we used to broadcast music. The London magazine said that allocations of 105.0 to 108 MHz were free.

                    Of course back then there was no net or access to public sector info like today, and I had no idea that that frequency allocations were different around regions of the UK, and that in Reading this allocation was still used for the public services (the FM band in the UK wasn’t allocated totally to broadcasters until the 1990s, as we ignored international consensus about the correct use of radio frequency spectrum to save money in the short term).

                    We ended up transmitting music across the radio communication sets of every bus in Reading, until a friendly old chap who worked at BBC Monitoring UK division (this is now closed down, though its more famous and publicised international counterpart is still very much active) tipped us off and suggested we ceased this practice

                    This was really cool on his part as he could have just told the DTI and Police to get us and we would have been arrested instead – looking back at it now that was fairly dangerous as those radio sets were used for safety related comms as no one had mobile phones then. The chap became a family friend and suggested that I looked into more suitable ways of making use of my electronics knowledge so I could become a legitimate broadcast engineer (which I did)

                    years later (1998) my friends got our first legal community broadcast and he wrote a letter to the papers supporting what we were doing raaa…

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