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When younger CBs were a rage (in the 80s). It was common to organize friday night festivities over it, you knew where people were going to hang out, who picks up who and so on. Our channel space is very limited, we only had 20 channels. But of course, mods existed, couple of chips changed and you could go to 20, 40, even 80 channels "over".. and some of those were official channels.. Trolling was a big problem, some idiots just spammed on top of your conversation and you had to channel hop fast to get rid of them. Once you had a mod thou, you could just go to the illegal channels until they could not find you.. Most people had mods so it became a competition who gets most channels.. We had +20 channels, one was emergency channel that you knew you can't hit anywhere close to it. Some of them were used by the military for non important communication, they really didn't like people being in their space.. Once we were talking in our garage, quite crude speak.. the kind that young men can say on friday afternoon before starting to beer up.. My mom had a radio in the kitchen and the damn CB leaked straight into that and she heard everything we said (she didn't hear the other end thou..). Was the last time we used it for that purpose at home.. The church where i started my journey to adio engineering received truckers CB on the PA system.. That was hilarious as they were not the cleanest of words ;) The cause was later found, the whole system was not grounded properly and acted like a huge antenna.
The International Space Station is also available to amateur radio operators with just a technician license. It's kind of a badge of honor to talk to people in outer space.
my dad is an amateur radio technician, we used to do demos for our boyscout troop at camping events, he had a car setup with a giant antenna and license plate with his call sign, and his hand radio saved our lives when we got stuck in the middle of the green river after our canoe washed out overnight. we were able to radio someone like 500 miles away who called the canoe rental company who were able to come out and rescue us. Ham radio has played a much larger role in my life than most people would assume for the average human. EDIT* that time we got stuck was before cell phones where a normal thing everyone had. this was like late 90s
HAM radio amateurs & technicians are the sole reason radio technology kept evolving and getting better and better. Because of the sheer love & dedication to this amazing medium.
You'll find repeater coverage in some places a cell phone doesn't stand a chance. Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park come to mind since I was there last month and when the phone had nothing in the middle of the desert at 106 degrees and nobody else in sight, getting through to the Terlingua repeater was really comforting.
Non-eagle but look what video I’m on(quit cause I wanted to skateboard and focus on music only I since have been involved with adult orgs and am forming my papers for my own org, noticed the green river call, troop 233 and 221 here, camp crooked creek?
My uncle had a CB radio in the truck. When I was 12, I was inside his truck alone and started playing with the radio. I heard some guys talking and decided to chime in. I ended using a lot of profanity and those guys said they were looking for me and were going to kick my ass. To this day, I'm not sure they could do that but it scared the shit out of me.
You can totally track a cb. Once you get close enough to the signal, if you know how to use RF gain, squelch, and read the meter on the radio, you’ll be on top of that transmitting radio in no time!
If you like the idea of amateur satellites, you're gonna lose your minds when you find out you can bounce radio off the moon and hear yourself (about 2.5 seconds light lag) and communicate with people. All with that lowest tier Technician license (and a good station). Get. Yo. License.
@@cmnieman1 I haven't found a super step-by-step guide, but this is a good start, if you Google unfamiliar terms: www.g1ogy.com/www.n1bug.net/operate/emebasic.html One thing it doesn't talk about is using digital modes, e.g., attaching your computer to your radio and communicating that way. Much weaker signals are usable this way, which means less power and less antenna is needed. Joe Taylor has written extensively on that topic, and invented many of the modes used.
@Peter quite right, that's where the good station I mentioned comes in. 100 watts on 2m with substantial antennas using a weak signal digital mode *might* be enough.
I found this video today, which still isn't step by step, but gives a great visual guide to a small EME station: ua-cam.com/video/TUbNDNBPFEM/v-deo.html The one thing I'd add is that if you can get free of ground clutter, you can shoot the moon just as it's coming up. This means you don't have to adjust for elevation and can use the Earth as a reflector, improving your signal. I plan to build a similar station and point out over a large body of water.
I worked for an AM radio station in the early 80's for a VERY short time. Having done that, I have a piece of paper that I signed saying I have permission to transmit radio frequencies. There is no expiration date on the piece of paper.
I have a valid General Radio Operator's License ( a professional license issued by FCC) and still I cannot transmit on Ham bands even though 99% of the questions of the exam elements are the same.
@@rypdx As long as you're not being a complete idiot, the FCC isn't going to bother with you. You will, however, drive the local ham operators crazy.. :-)
18 year old ham here, been a general for awhile, it's a dying but fun hobby that I think is an important skill to have. Thanks for helping make it more known with this vid!
I remember as a kid my father was into ham radio and morse code and he use to talk to people from China, Vietnam, etc through Morse code and I always found it fascinating. My father would've loved the internet age and the fact he could talk to anyone anywhere. We tend to take this stuff for granted but he would be in awe of the technology available today.
I was so into CB I had all the linear mics antennas and we would rig ur cobra 128 XL to put out 25 watts, then push 1200 watts. my mom would hate me you could here me through the landline telephone calls
Joe jeans ... and that is called "Harmful Interference" which could have cost you up to $10,000 for each time you pushed the 'magic button' to talk. While you were "just having fun" you were causing problems for your Mom, your Neighbors and many others who were trying to use the channels you were "splattering" all over.
@w4csc My father talked to a Russian guy during the 60s and mention his father's car in the discussion. The Russian said he had to be lying as an ordinary worker could not possibly have a car of their own. He simply would not believe my father.
Having a HAM license myself, I’ve ALWAYS preferred Citizens Band. It’s much more relaxed & interesting to me personally, especially if you know how to navigate the band and beyond. Alpha 76A out of a Sigma 5/8 wave, and talk just about anywhere on earth depending on propagation conditions of the firmament. I just think it’s nice to have a hobby that’s so interesting. Respect to all of those who key down no matter the frequency, power, modulation, transistor, or tubes. Remember, once you announce your call sign (and you must on all HAM bands), anyone can then know your name, address, and more via the database available to the public & Google. Oh and don’t mess about on a HAM band without a license, they will eventually find you, more so if your local and piss them off enough. (I) think the reason radio is so interesting & motivating is because we live in an electric realm of frequency and vibration. Tapping into this is like dancing in the unseen ether, connecting to something that is already in and around all of us. The sound of skip gives me goosebumps.
Joking aside, anyone can use a ham radio in an emergency situation. Hopefully this video inspires some of you to get your ticket (license)! - KC3NDY 73
When the apocalypse comes... you won't really know how to use your radio if you haven't practiced with it. Get licensed. It's easy, fun, and occasionally even useful.
When I was a kid back in '93 or so, I found a kinda portable radio that belonged to my grandpa who was a navy officer way back in the day. I remember turning it on and scanning across the frequencies one day and coming across what seemed to be a police dispatch channel currently being used during some small incident. I of course, being a 9-year-old I thought this was insanely cool and started saying things like "this is tango-six give me your 48-niner" or some crap. They immediately recognized a kid had gotten onto the channel, and were actually amazingly patient telling me how important it is not to talk into the radio.
One time during winter I was able to receive British Columbia, and receive and talk with Tahoe.... I was in the BayArea. On top of a mountain. I had a cheap CB radio I bought for $5 @ garage sale, hooked it up to a toy train- track power converter, and a 5ft. Portable antenna.
I was a fairly avid CBer from the late-1970s until the mid-1990s. My most memorable CB-related experience occurred in the early-1990s. It was early-summer and I was in Victor Steinbrueck Park immediately adjacent to downtown Seattle. Around 2:00pm PDT I keyed up my little 2- or 3-watt handheld with a rubber ducky antenna and requested a 10-32 (radio check). The reply that I almost immediately received originated from a trucker in Illinois! I'm aware of "atmospheric skip" but that normally occurs at night -- not in the middle of a sunny afternoon. We spent several minutes just shooting the shit, and then we both went our separate ways.
It's a useful analogy, because while an actual zombie apocalypse is just short of impossible, how you prepare for it is super similar to other disaster preparedness scenarios that it's actually useful for teaching general survival tactics.
well yeah, most of this isn't practical day to day when you can open up a website and order a knife that'll arrive faster than you can probably find material, shape, and sharpen into one, and probably be a lot better (and cheaper if you had to buy any thing). Similarly there are a number of communication platforms that use the internet or cellular service at this point which is fairly good in most places and transmit more clearly than radio without any unnecessary tests or rules, not to mention your phone/computer/device likely has the ability to use software to clean up the transmission automatically. Plus there are multiple companies/corporations? now planning on launching thousands of micro-satellites in the near future that should given even better coverage and speed. Downside is that they do require the infrastructure built up over decades to work and very few people understand enough that they could recreate them on any scale if those failed. Though I suppose 2.6 million is probably still fairly small and who knows how many of them really know their stuff, it's a lot simpler to make a radio out of scrap laying around than a computer (assuming you don't have actual computers laying around) or pick up a piece of metal and shape it into a tool than try to communicate with a chain of people to some factory that used to make them in order to have one delivered. Of course something like a hurricane knocking out power and roads is a mini-apocalypse and can just as effectively end that infrastructure for a period of time, it's just less fun to refer to :)
I was licensed in the early 70. Still have a extra license almost 50 years ago. A mature radio is dead. 2 meter suck, Hf down the tube. You can have the best radio equipment in town, but it’s a boat anchor with nobody to talk to. Bands are dead.
There is always someone on air, especially if you use CW. Have you tried digital FT8? I'm in the UK and yesterday on FT8 had reports from Brazil and China plus Europe and north america. On CW I worked all over too.
America is dead. Our signals don't even go as far as other places because of all the RF junk in the air they are pumping us full of to keep us sick. 2m,6m it's all a joke.
When I was little, I remember helping my dad set up an antenna for a lady's CB radio. She was up in years, and I think that was her main form of socializing. If I remember right, she was a trucker when she was younger and got involved in the culture through that. My dad said a lot of his side of the family had them, too. Again, truckers and farmers. It's isolated out here, and I can take the isolation because the internet gives me a feeling of connection. It's interesting to see how earlier generations filled that same need. I read an article that talked about old farmers setting up makeshift phone networks with barbed wire fence to keep in touch with the community.
Farmers in rural places used the wire that spanned dozens of miles to contact their neighbors and would regularly have a group chat with the people connected on the line
I found some old US Army field telephones under the kitchen basement of my prep school and set them up between some juniors' and senior' rooms. The Headmaster didn't take kindly to that and had me pull up a mile of twin conductor cable I and my partners-in-crime had buried or suspended between buildings at night! It was fun while it lasted. I didn't graduate cum laude either! Was lucky to have made it out with my diploma! Never-the-less, the education was priceless compared to the swill the public schools have been puting out for the past 20 to 30 years. That's why we're in this mess, today. God help us! Looks like the "grand experiment" is over.
How “mini” did you have in mind, because a reasonably intelligent English speaking human can read through the book once and pass the test. It was different when you had to learn Morse code. That was too high a barrier to entry for many people, but they dropped the code requirement years ago. It’s a lot easier now, thus the time and effort to be prepared is much lower.
@@hometownmedic7355 maybe 2 or 3 more episodes, nothing major, it would mostly be an excuse to chill with Josh and nerd out about some stuff. Although watching Brian and Jason walk through the process would also be entertaining, it'd be funny to watch Brian take a standardized test with dramatic editing going on.
You can also just memorize the answers to the test pool questions which are publlically available. But there are free Technician courses on UA-cam so you can actually know what you are doing.
@@hometownmedic7355 I remember those days. I was elated when I passed my 5-wpm and could talk on 10 meters. I haven't been on air for years now, my house burned down and I never replaced my equipment, although I do have one of those $30 HTs just in case I ever need it.
Ham Radio Crash Course there’s nothing I’d love more than seeing these guys play dnd. If you have any ability to push these guys to do it, that’d be amazing.
Awesome seeing how excited the guys are about the hobby. Got my license at 13, many years back, but haven't been on in quite a while. I keep it active though, just in case (I'm old enough I got my Novice when still had to pass 5wpm) - KA3ZXO
My father had a Ham radio that I got when he died. It is old and is a receiver only Tube type that still works. I don't really listen to it but it was my Dad's so I like having it. He used to sit and listen to it for hours, fiddling with the knobs and frequencies just to see what he could find.....Just remembering : /
Amazing graphics. And the constant miles to km converting is just perfect. :D Gotta love the editors!! This production quality is what separates good channels from great ones. !! Also, Brian and Jason are cool too.
I've been a licenced amateur for a little over a year. I took my tech, and then immediately started studying and got my general like 3 months later (it can be done WAY quicker but I'm in college, give me a break). It was actually your video on Number Stations forever ago that got me super interested in it again. I had read about it as a kid but quickly forgot about it until that video showed up in my feed. I can't express to you how fun it is. Also, Josh, Huge fan of the HRCC channel as well! I'm super excited that you guys are FINALLY going down this rabbit hole. I love your videos.
@@ddegn arrlexamreview.appspot.com/ is a really good place to start. ARRL memberships are subscription-based BUT exam accounts like this one are FREE. You can take as many practice tests on there as you want. You can also download and study the entire question pool here: www.arrl.org/question-pools. A lot of the Technician (lowest level license) stuff is just common sense. If you tried hard enough you could probably be ready in a week or two. I recommend buying a cheap radio before you take the test so that you are motivated to actually study for the test. Actually having the necessary equipment in front of you makes it a lot easier and more exciting to study so that you can actually press that transmit button, but that's just my opinion. UA-cam has hundreds of videos on studying for tests, and even though the exam question pools change every once and a while, the questions are pretty much the same every time, just worded differently. Good luck! 73 73 73 de KE0RAG!
There's a really good guide online that goes over all the possible questions. I took the tech and it was pretty easy. They offered that I could take the general while I was there too so I did and only failed by a couple of questions (given that I had not studied for it, that's fair enough, I think). Nobody should be scared to study and take the test, they are not designed to make it hard to get a license, only to make sure you have the knowledge to use the equipment in a safe and courteous manner.
Glad you guys finally touched on ham radio. I've been licensed since 2012. It's a great hobby! My furthest contact was from my home base in NY (near the Canadian border) all the way over to Ukraine! A radio I fixed up myself, an antenna I built myself, and 100 watts of power! I'm also glad you covered not transmitting without a license. There was a disgruntled volunteer EMS provider locally that got a Baofeng (the radios shown in this video) he decided to mess with a local EMS company I worked for. We tracked him down and reported him to the FCC. Don't be a fool!
TheBullfrog89 that’s different from casually using these radios in to coordinate between your friends in a forest on an unused frequency or even FRS/GMRS band that the blister pack radios use.
@@samuelseidel6148 I understand what your saying, I think. My point was if you mess with these radios, you need to know what your doing. Even accidentally transmitting on the wrong frequency you will be found and fined. Only use them on the frequencies you can legally use.
@@maxinvasionleet Special antennas built for direction finding. get a bunch of people with them, and they can track pretty quickly. We even do what we call "fox hunting" to practice. Someone (licensed) has a transmitter, sending a signal and everyone else tracks them down.
@@maxinvasionleet There are orienteering events based around radio. Orienteering in it's traditional form is going to a place you haven't been before and using a map and compass to find a series of small flags, and punching a card to prove you were there. All this against the clock. The location of the flag is marked on the map for compass based games. Radio based has only a few 'foxes' that transmit pings, the map is blank except for the game boundaries, and you use directional radio receivers to triangulate and find these tiny radios. If it's possible to find 3 tiny boxes scattered randomly through the woods with lightweight handheld receivers, it's definitely possible to find someone doing rogue transmissions using proper equipment. And everybody licensed for radio has to know the physics of radio propagation, plenty of nerds to get directional radio antennas, tight knit enough to share data, and hate bad actors that could result in having the amateur bands taken away. Three Letter Agencies can and do show up on people's doorsteps over this.
This video is what inspired me to get my license. I had heard about ham radio but never really knew what it was about or what it could do. Now I'm getting started with EchoLink and getting my first DMR radio here in a bit. 73, KO4HJF
This is GOD SPEAKING, YOU MUST AGREE THAT HAM RADIO IS A GREAT IDEA... FIRST I WANTED TO MAKE IT OUT OF PIGS BUT THESE HUMANS ARE REALLY CLEVER AND MADE IT OUT OF PLASTIC AND METAL, SURE THERE MIGHT BE PROBLEMS WITH PIGS, SIZE BEING JUST ONE.. HOWEVER SEEING AS MY IDEAS ARE CLEARLY LESS THAN THAT OF MAN, I'M GONNA GO HAVE A PICNIC WITH SATAN'S MOTHER MAUREEN.
I had loads of fun back in the late 70s, and early 80s with CB radio. We used to play "fox and hound" DF (Direction finding) games. My car had co-phased 8ft antennas towards the last 1/3 of the the car body. We could often find the fella(s) who were playing the "fox" by carefully circling the car and watching the change in the built in "S" (Signal strength) meter in the radio. Once someone found the "fox", we'd all go for coffee and snacks. Generally most CBers were kindly folks. It was also nice to listen to folks all over the world chatting when "skip" (the signals bounced off the upper atmosphere) was in. This post brought back fond memories of friends, so long since passed.
My grandfather was W2ROT, he said it was 'with two rotten old tomatoes'. He helped design and install the early color television transmitters in Syracuse NY. I also had a totally blind roommate who passed the ham test with flying colors and enjoyed talking to people all over. The local club drove him to the white cross building and administered the test. Back in the 80s cb radio was still very popular. Ham radio privileges opened a vast new world of possibilities for who you could talk to and the distance you could communicate. Cheers, great video.
Some years ago an ARES group wanted to do a countywide exercise that included hams at various EOCs thoughout the county. It was summer time, hot, but the exercise simulated a snowstorm so people listening will not get confused if a wildland fire was the event. Even though everyone said drill trafffic at end of messages, well you know the usual not everyone listens to the full transmission.
Accurate info? So you agree that if someone transmits without using a call sign that you’d find them and show up at their house? That’s what he said in the video. You think that’s accurate? I think it’s not worth it. You could get shot by someone.
Great stuff!!! Brings back memories. Kid up the street on a hill used to have a Drake 2B pulled in stuff from all over the world, and could sometimes skip back. Wall covered in cq cards. He had it bad. I just used to listen to all sorts of long range broadcastsfrom around the world (RFE, BBC, German & Mexican stations.). Fun! Late nite listening. Thankyou for the Wayback Machine, Sherman.
I have a story that I am sure was illegal on many levels after watching this video. For the record, no agency ever came knocking on our door, not because we were smart but because we lucky I guess. I was born and raised in a place that is now called Silicon Valley. My older brother bought a base unit CB radio but one of his friends knew a "guy" who mods CB radios. I do not know exactly what was done but I think it opened up other frequencies, again not sure. Anyway, the CB antennae was on top of our giant redwood tree in our back yard. I do not remember how far he could transmit and receive. I remember being able to eavesdrop into phone conversation from the new tech of cordless/wireless home phones. We could even talk over them and repeat what they just said. yes creepy and illegal. I assumed it was just from our immediate neighborhood. He never had a HAM Radio license. I'm surprised it was never hit with a lightning strike. If someone asked him about his setup , my brother would say 85' mast growing about 8" per year. lol. peace
Ppl with a license and no life…😂 aka the “sad ham” you can find a lot of them in the comment sections of YT 😉 And in all of FCC history not even a citation was given to any unlicensed user of a UV-5R. As long as you use it as a simplex com, stay on safe frequencies and limit your Tx to 4W or less even the worst case of spurious emission won’t affect any air traffic beacons or shipping navigation.
He has a special set of skills, that makes him a nightmare to trolls like you. He will look for you, he will RF direction find you and he WILL take away your ham radio privileges.
If you want to claim his call as a memorial call, you can do so. Family members are permitted to do that, you just need to match his license level (e.g. if he was General, you'd need to be General) and submit proof of death to the FCC and a request to claim his call as a vanity (after getting your sequentially-issued one.) Otherwise two years after the FCC learns of his death, his call will be released and can be claimed by anyone.
I love the energy between the three of you. It's so positive and infectious. I was watched the first video I came across from this channel 2 days ago, about the short scan signals for numbers station. In that video, when the guy with the glasses was getting excited about finding something on the rainbow of signals, I was getting excited too.
I have to say, HRCC is a wonderful alternative to the doldrums that HAM Nation has become. Modern Rogue just takes it to the next level. If you guys did a strictly ham podcast produced to this quality or even half as good, I'd watch every single time.
Used to work at the parts department at Yaseu. Lemme tell you HAMs are a different breed entirely. Some great stories and some painful customer service interactions.
@B P Thanks, you beat me to one of my pet peeves. "Ham" is a very old nickname with a mysterious etymology. It doesn't stand for anything. The actual name is the Amateur service.
I was a kid in the 70s, and dad always had a CB radio in both his truck and mom's station wagon. I still use CB radios today, albeit a Cobra 29ltd bluetooth, and a Cobra 2000 gtl base station at home. I also have several handheld HAM radios, and have my HAM licence. If something were to happen to terrestrial communications, CBs are a valuable means of communications. All of my children, including neices and nephews have as well.
One of the nice thing about HAM culture is that when you make a new friend over the air, you can exchange post cards of your home town (or whatever). Many operators have collections of post cards from years of meeting people.... also, aside from bouncing off the moon, you can sometimes use the atmosphere to skip the signal (like skipping rocks on water) and increase distance with the same power.
The Loma Priata Earthquake was in 1989, before cell phones were really a thing everyone had. After the quake power and phones were out for some time, Ham radio operators put out signs offering to send messages. They'd contact other hams outside the effected area and those hams would call people on the phone to pass on messages. And they did it for free. They were heroes.
Legally speaking, we are required by law to do such work free of charge and are not permitted to profit monetarily from the use of our licenses. That is the basic deal in exchange for otherwise free use of often very valuable radio frequency real estate.
@@ethanpoole3443 Sorry, but I find that hard to believe. I can maybe understand doing it at cost, but to force someone to do something for free, especially if providing that service has costs associated with it (such as long distance phone call charges) seems a bit out of line. Can you provide a reference to these laws?
Eric Taylor I’d be happy to do so. While it is very briefly, if a little opaquely, touched upon in the opening section of FCC Part 97.1a (under Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations) with the words “voluntary *noncommercial* communications service” (note: in this instance the use of “noncommercial” is used in the broadest sense of “commerce” to reference any sort of work in exchange for compensation, whether paid, barter, or in-kind exchange). However, the restriction is most clearly spelled out under Part 97.113 under the heading of “Prohibited Transmissions”. Under Part 97.113a(2) it is prohibited to engage in “communications for hire or material compensation, direct or indirect, paid or promised, except as otherwise provided for in these rules.” Also, under Part 97.113a(3) we are forbidden to engage in “communications in which the station licensee or control operator has a pecuniary interest, including communications on behalf of an employer, with the following exceptions. The exceptions touched upon under Part 97.113a(3)i-iv cover (paraphrased for brevity): i) operating on behalf of an employer in an emergency or readiness drill (this is to permit agencies like the Red Cross as well as licensed federal, state, county, or city emergency management officials to legally communicate with amateurs where their transmissions are merely an incidental aspect of their job and not the primary reason for their job during emergency and simulated disasters/drills); ii) an amateur operator may make occasional advertisements regarding the availability of goods or equipment for sale or trade that are specifically related to Amateur Radio Service (the on air “swap meet” exception); iii) compensation as an incident of a teaching position during the time of use (the school Radio Club exemption); and iv) the control operator of a club station may accept compensation for the periods of time when a station is transmitting telegraphy practice and bulletins for at least 40 hours each week, provided the service is offered on six, or more, MF or HF bands (1.8-30MHz) and where regular schedules are published at least 30 days in advance and the operator is in no way otherwise compensated for that time (in essence, a full time on air Morse code teacher may be compensated for their time if they are not otherwise compensated elsewhere). Anyone may read the entirety of the Part 97 rules under which the Amateur Radio Service (as well as Part 95 if also interested in CB, FRS, or GMRS) is established online at the FCC.gov website or as part of the full Code of Federal Regulations under Title 47, Part 97. You can also access the Part 97 rules in their entirety at the American Radio Relay League’s website (our national club and lobbying entity) at ARRL.org (just search for “part 97” in the search box in the upper right-hand corner of the page),
@@ethanpoole3443 Thanks, but I think I see the problem here. See the word "voluntary"? No one is forced to provide these services. They are just not allowed to charge for them. And though I'm no lawyer, I think the "non-commercial" has to do with no compensation for profit. I could be wrong, but there is a law in aviation sort of like this. There is sort of the same thing in aviation. There are several different classes of pilot's license. The two that apply here are "private pilot's license" and "commercial pilot's license" A commercial pilot has nothing to do with airliners. These two license types apply to general aviation. mostly "Cessna" type planes. It has to do with what the pilot can and cannot charge for his services. A commercial pilot is allowed to charge passengers for profit. A private pilot can also charge his passengers but he can only charge the cost of operating. He can't charge for his labor. Lets say you want me to give you a ride in my plane. it costs costs me say $100 per hour in fuel and maintenance. As a commercial pilot I could charge you $200 for a 1 hour ride, but as a private pilot I can still make you pay for the ride, but I can only charge you $100 for a one hour ride. It simply wouldn't be reasonable to make the pilot fly you around for free, if it costs him to do so.
I still remember the 1 time that somebody was pounding on my door and let me know there's a fire. I went out to my car, and was about ready to leave, then I remembered that I have a radio in my car. I put it up, (magnetic mounts with a cigarette plug), and turned on my linear amp so I could reach my grandfather. I identified and started transmitting, EMERGENCY. Grandpa! I'm about ready to have my house burn down. I'm about ready to leave but fire!!!" I didn't know what else to do, but I remembered: "if there is ever an emergency, use this." I did, and when I was leaving 8 plows were making circles around the house, I was leaving after I got my dog and cats in the car and just went to "anywhere but here!" Radio is a very useful tool in the right circumstances. I got radioed back 3 hours later, (I went and hid in the canyon), that my house is now safe to return to. Radio is very very useful, but I was trained to never pick up the mic unless lives might be in danger, but I can listen all I want.
You'd be surprised how many remote ham operators feel the need to police spectrum even when nobody's bothering anybody. I get it in an urban environment, or when someone is causing interference, but a LOT of the old timers (a large percent of the community) feel like they are the FCC's hall monitors.
@@notsure7874 I meant in a post-apocalyptic situation. In the event of a total government collapse, you think they'd be able to stop all the random people who raided Wal Mart for radios like in this video and just started talking? Especially when they can't even threaten to report them to the FCC?
@@IncredibleMD I somehow think that even if there was an apocalyptic event, and government was down - there'd still be Ham Karens trying to police the airwaves :D But ya - SHTF, the FCC is irrelevant.
The main issue isn't any "harmful inteferences". The main issue is that after introduction of cheap chinese radios, available for everyman, the ham radio phenomenon and its community is rapidly losing its long time taken for granted prestige. Additional problem is that ham people suddenly realized how they had many times absurdly overpaid for the same equipment, only branded with "known brands". And third issue is that normal people realized that ham radio operation is not any esoteric knowledge for the elect, but in fact very trivial thing. It is all about lost prestige and exclusiveness.
HRCC and Modern Rogue seems like a perfect combination really. HRCC is awesome by the way! Thanks Modern Rogue for these video's exploring amateur radio and just how "cool" it can actually be. 73's N0MLP
They are acting like the FCC has someone sitting around every couple of square miles listening in for unlicensed radio activity. You can use these day to day for normal use as long as you aren't constantly broadcasting, and you will likely never hear a peep from any government agency.
Just do not use it at your house, walk around the neighbor hood, or do like people do with computers if they do not want to get caught doing thing, They go to a free wife area, so just go to a park or something and use it. no way they can track you all the time think someone said in Florida there are just 5 agents in the whole state
It depends on what you are doing, you are stepping on somebody's foot, a licensed user, specifically government or commercial, they find you, bc they depend on their service working.
I remember the first time i watched this video i could not push the ptt button. I passed my test last year. Its so cool to see this video pop back up in my recommended.
I studied like crazy to ace my Amateur Extra exam, then found that the local radio club was not very welcoming (perhaps because the president had failed to earn his Extra license) and so I pursued other interests. Now there are some new, inexpensive radios which makes playing around in HAM radio much easier.
Though Citizens Band has fallen to Skip Worlders, it is still a good radio practice to have it on hand for EmComm operations. Matter of fact my EmComm set up has the following types of radios. UHF AMATEUR, UHF BUSINESS, UHF PUBLIC SAFETY, VHF AMATEUR, VHF BUSINESS, VHF PUBLIC SAFETY, FRS, GMRS, CB, HF AMATEUR, HF CAP, HF MARS ALL TRANSCEIVERS ARE CAPABLE OF ALL MODE OPERATIONS TO INCLUDE DMR, PROVOICE AND NXDN EXCEPT THE FRS / GMRS TRANSCEIVERS. I ALSO RUN SEVERAL RECEIVERS SO THE PROBABILITY OF MISSING AN EMERGENCY CALL IS REDUCED.
A few years ago I was on a large worksite with hundreds of people from dozens of companies and everyone had UHF CBs (Australia). After switching channels for awhile my crew found a clean one with no one else on it, score. Fast forward 3 days and we are called up on that channel by search and rescue, we had been bouncing off a repeater and they had spent the last 3 days flying around trying to get within our receive range to tell us to get of channel. Hot tip, stay off 5 and 35 in Australia.
@@mattymerr701 They were nice enough to let us off with a warning, honestly I would like to see the emergency frequencies noted on the handset so people don't make the same mistake we did.
The CB Craze was centered in 1975 and 1976 mostly after the movie Smokey and the Bandit was released starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Fields, Jerry Reed along with Jackie Gleason. It popularized CB radios to an unheard of point to the dismay of 18 wheel truckers everywhere.
I remember my sister actually got her FCC call sign when she was heavy into CB. Had a big base station, power mic. I could be wrong, it has been, 40 years or so. . . KAGH-3588 that sounds right. . .maybe. Oh, I was the Boston Strangler. CB was nuts back then. Meets, parties, the custom vsn club every truck had a rig, and 100 pounds of vibrant shag carpet.
@Robert Slackware your grandmother did what now? The only times I've been shot at were doing cop tows on abandoned vehicles. Nobodies granny ever popped a shot at me and I don't like the implications behind accusing me of picking a house. I'm no burglar.
When i was in the service i operated fm, hf, shf, uhf, and vhf. Between handheld prc-148 mbitrs to shf radios that took 2 or more guys just to move the transmitter. Even some ku band satcom work too.
I wouldn't advocate preppers to get their license, if the SHTF the FCC isn't going to be running around checking licenses. But the FCC can inspect your station WITHOUT a warrant. The last thing you're probably going to want as a prepper is a Fed Agency coming through your home, unannounced and without the necessity of a warrant.
When I got a CB radio in 1970's, my dad had to get a CB licence for me . We got a letter with our call sign from the FCC.. a few months later they no longer required you to have one.
.....what was your 20 back then ? I still have many C B units , base and mobile . One of my base units have side bands . With a good mic & ground plane antenna ! Get back into it , and practice radio procedures . Maranatha !
Had on in my Jeep wrangler. Just a UHF 80 channel here in australia and it was the best thing ever. Awesome for a laugh on the highway with the truckers and especially helpful with incidents and accidents that happened up the road. I do miss having it
@@vlc-cosplayer It's the best way I could explain it, English isn't my first language. They worked exactly like public transportation, but weren't organized by the government and used vans instead of buses.
Demont both of them doing it in quick succession in the background of each other with their individual cameras eagerly proving to themselves they are the best at what they do
I had picked up a used CB radio many years back and after I got it home, I decided to check things out. With the help of a frequency counter, I discovered it was transmitting on every band out there including police, emergency vehicle, aircraft, etc. I check it because when I had tried transmitting, it would trip the local banks security system and had police crawling around the area trying to find who was transmitting on their private frequencies. I got rid of that radio very quickly by destroying it.
Somebody messed with the filters - this should not happen normally. This reminds me of the old moped days, where some folks thought replacing the exhaust on a 2-stroke with a garden hose would make it faster. This is just stupid and demonstrates little understanding of physics.
I am a General class operator which has been licensed since 2007 even though my info on QRZ says Effective 4/25/2017. I mainly listen to and transmit on the Western Intertie Network. I think I'd enjoy chatting with Brian and Jason. You guys should go take the test. 73s from Chris - KI6KTL (Kilo India 6 Kilo Tango Lima)
10:07 - Being an amateur radio operator (KI5AOK), I just want to point this time stamp out in the video. Notice that when the display shows the frequency, it says "GMRS2 462.587". For those of you who are starting out in Amateur radio, the Beofang units will transmit on frequencies that are not part of the amateur band. This includes the 30 channels that are for General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS), which occupies the 462 and 467 MHz band (which is outside Amateur radio license area of 420-450 MHz). Transmitting in the GMRS assigned channels require two things: - A different set of call signs (seven characters, consisting of four alpha and three numeric [i.e. WRAW744, which is my GMRS call sign] - A part 95 certified radio. The problem with the mobile radios shown is that they are part 90 certified, which means that the Baofeng used cannot legally transmit on GMRS, even if you have a GMRS license. They work for the topic that is being discussed (amateur radio channels) but not for GMRS.
Also, if you are too buy a baofeng; many distributors have begun locking the tx(transmit), as well as the raddiodity gt5r has it locked as well for sure. In order to stop from being used on frs/gmrs
Now you ought to have Josh bring over his HF rig. You could play around with some serious long distance communications. Get your tickets! You're both geeky enough to enjoy the hobby, and all the weird stuff you can do with radios.
I've been licensed for 43-years, and noticed your KIxxx callsign. When I was licensed I received one of the first KAxxxx "2x3" callsigns. I'd hoped for a WD4 prefix, but these ran out, so KA prefixes were next (formerly used for the Canal Zone). The problem was that a KAxxxx callsign marked you as a rookie to the hamming hobby and you just didn't get the respect the W's automatically had. That was then. Today, a KAxxxx callsign is the mark of the oldest, saltiest operator on the bands. The hobby today is nothing like the one I entered. We knew radio design and most of the on-air equipment was home-built or from a kit like Heathkit. Today, virtually all gear is bought off-the-shelf. We were morse code communicators. Today, most hams couldn't recognize their own callsign sent to them in morse code. Strict requirements for licensing meant the hobby remained professional. Discarding all the standards invited the riff-raff. The abuses you hear on-air daily didn't occur in the old days. Why was Channel 19 always the zoo it was? Because anyone could get a CB and talk on it. Once that was applied to Amateur Radio... the results were the same.
I remember as a kid with one of those low-cost walkie talkies you bought at a department store for kids (late 70s early 80s) and I once talked to someone over 20 miles away, never could figure out how that was possible and how the CB radio we had could pick it up several miles away regularly. Talking to the other walkie talkie was a range of about half a mile.
most those walkie talkies back then operated on a single fixed CB channel. Had a pair, worked on channel 5, would park my car in a parking lot, with squelch set high and PA speaker on, in my friends car across the lot would wait until someone passed in front of my car key the walkie talkie and scare the crap out of them! and since worked off crystals to select the channel frequency could change out the crystals and use a different channel .
Had the no code techs from aarl TRY and track us outlaw CB Modders down to no avail. Back in my misspent youth. Its amazing how some jumper cables and a railroad track can mess with triangilation
Transmitting without knowing what other communications you're disrupting is no joke. Whether you're interfering with your local fire department or a drug lord, you're inviting unwanted consequences. Speed limits are sometimes overly restrictive, and some seem designed as revenue schemes. The regulations governing radio are minimal, designed to be only as restrictive as needed to keep a common public resource available to serve everyone.
Paul Plack, Breaking the law is breaking the law. There is no gray area. You can think that speeding laws are overly restrictive but if you go past the posted speed limit you are breaking the law. Speed limits are no joke and set to keep the public safe. Life is full of choices and there may be consequences to those choices.
@@Biogasifier the government overreach is astounding. It's the same thing the FCC telling everyone they need a license to talk and farther than across a room. I gladly break any unconstitutional "law" that limits my free speech.
less than 3 miles and had problem with 2 meter band, had to switch to 70 cm band. i have a ways to go understanding all these variables. i appreciate the video, this is all new to me, thanks!!!
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When younger CBs were a rage (in the 80s). It was common to organize friday night festivities over it, you knew where people were going to hang out, who picks up who and so on. Our channel space is very limited, we only had 20 channels. But of course, mods existed, couple of chips changed and you could go to 20, 40, even 80 channels "over".. and some of those were official channels.. Trolling was a big problem, some idiots just spammed on top of your conversation and you had to channel hop fast to get rid of them. Once you had a mod thou, you could just go to the illegal channels until they could not find you.. Most people had mods so it became a competition who gets most channels.. We had +20 channels, one was emergency channel that you knew you can't hit anywhere close to it. Some of them were used by the military for non important communication, they really didn't like people being in their space..
Once we were talking in our garage, quite crude speak.. the kind that young men can say on friday afternoon before starting to beer up.. My mom had a radio in the kitchen and the damn CB leaked straight into that and she heard everything we said (she didn't hear the other end thou..). Was the last time we used it for that purpose at home.. The church where i started my journey to adio engineering received truckers CB on the PA system.. That was hilarious as they were not the cleanest of words ;) The cause was later found, the whole system was not grounded properly and acted like a huge antenna.
We want D&D
1:26 UHF? Like Weird Al’s UHF?
I’m prob not gonna win
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The International Space Station is also available to amateur radio operators with just a technician license. It's kind of a badge of honor to talk to people in outer space.
@Anung Un Rama I am licensed.
@Anung Un Rama what is the frequency?
📡 I am gonna do that. I set my radios up & am monitoring ISS Passover 🛰
@@jimhamilton8285 There are 2 frequencies required…1 download & 1 upload. 1 is on 2-Meters & the other is on 70cm.
I spoke to Mir on a handheld.
my dad is an amateur radio technician, we used to do demos for our boyscout troop at camping events, he had a car setup with a giant antenna and license plate with his call sign, and his hand radio saved our lives when we got stuck in the middle of the green river after our canoe washed out overnight. we were able to radio someone like 500 miles away who called the canoe rental company who were able to come out and rescue us. Ham radio has played a much larger role in my life than most people would assume for the average human.
EDIT* that time we got stuck was before cell phones where a normal thing everyone had. this was like late 90s
HAM radio amateurs & technicians are the sole reason radio technology kept evolving and getting better and better. Because of the sheer love & dedication to this amazing medium.
You'll find repeater coverage in some places a cell phone doesn't stand a chance. Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park come to mind since I was there last month and when the phone had nothing in the middle of the desert at 106 degrees and nobody else in sight, getting through to the Terlingua repeater was really comforting.
Non-eagle but look what video I’m on(quit cause I wanted to skateboard and focus on music only I since have been involved with adult orgs and am forming my papers for my own org, noticed the green river call, troop 233 and 221 here, camp crooked creek?
500 miles lmao no
Well call phones also would probably not have had a signal back then too LoL
My uncle had a CB radio in the truck. When I was 12, I was inside his truck alone and started playing with the radio. I heard some guys talking and decided to chime in. I ended using a lot of profanity and those guys said they were looking for me and were going to kick my ass. To this day, I'm not sure they could do that but it scared the shit out of me.
Probably still looking for you. Be careful at truckstops. ;)
Found you!
😂😂😂
You can totally track a cb. Once you get close enough to the signal, if you know how to use RF gain, squelch, and read the meter on the radio, you’ll be on top of that transmitting radio in no time!
@@razbo1963 I don't know much about radios. How do they find you?
If you like the idea of amateur satellites, you're gonna lose your minds when you find out you can bounce radio off the moon and hear yourself (about 2.5 seconds light lag) and communicate with people. All with that lowest tier Technician license (and a good station).
Get. Yo. License.
Can you send me a link on best way to start on that path please?
Or just don't and talk anyways
@@cmnieman1 I haven't found a super step-by-step guide, but this is a good start, if you Google unfamiliar terms: www.g1ogy.com/www.n1bug.net/operate/emebasic.html
One thing it doesn't talk about is using digital modes, e.g., attaching your computer to your radio and communicating that way. Much weaker signals are usable this way, which means less power and less antenna is needed. Joe Taylor has written extensively on that topic, and invented many of the modes used.
@Peter quite right, that's where the good station I mentioned comes in. 100 watts on 2m with substantial antennas using a weak signal digital mode *might* be enough.
I found this video today, which still isn't step by step, but gives a great visual guide to a small EME station: ua-cam.com/video/TUbNDNBPFEM/v-deo.html
The one thing I'd add is that if you can get free of ground clutter, you can shoot the moon just as it's coming up. This means you don't have to adjust for elevation and can use the Earth as a reflector, improving your signal. I plan to build a similar station and point out over a large body of water.
"I have found... The drug money."
*His eyes bulge out in fear.*
"just kidding" and the fbi agent listening calmed down
“just kidding”
Murphy should NOT have been the one trusted to transmit, I knew he'd push it, and he certainly delivered.
ua-cam.com/video/cUx_AaLlQmY/v-deo.html
(Jason screams in fear)
loooool
I worked for an AM radio station in the early 80's for a VERY short time. Having done that, I have a piece of paper that I signed saying I have permission to transmit radio frequencies. There is no expiration date on the piece of paper.
Different license. Not applicable to amateur radio.
I have a valid General Radio Operator's License ( a professional license issued by FCC) and still I cannot transmit on Ham bands even though 99% of the questions of the exam elements are the same.
@@jasonbishop3273 in my town I don’t use one. No one says anything 😂 been doing it for 11 years. Just extortion from the gov
Update: I got my General Radio Amateur Class now and the call sign is W5DMA :)
@@rypdx As long as you're not being a complete idiot, the FCC isn't going to bother with you. You will, however, drive the local ham operators crazy.. :-)
The only repeaters I know are redstone, and even then I’m kinda shaky on my knowledge...
lol
After watching this video I’ve concluded the most intricate repeater there is is the red stone repeater
Jason Murphy you need to get your channel going there’s an army of modern rogues waiting to montoise you lol
Repeater is a repeater, whether it is repeating the radio signal out further, or getting an additional 15 blocks of redstone signal...
when combined with a comparator its deadly, but only the redstone gods, who reside in the land of scicraft, can truly master this.
This is the video that got me into radio a few months ago. Just took the test and got my tech license yesterday! 73 from KJ7PZH
Belated congrats
18 year old ham here, been a general for awhile, it's a dying but fun hobby that I think is an important skill to have. Thanks for helping make it more known with this vid!
I remember as a kid my father was into ham radio and morse code and he use to talk to people from China, Vietnam, etc through Morse code and I always found it fascinating. My father would've loved the internet age and the fact he could talk to anyone anywhere. We tend to take this stuff for granted but he would be in awe of the technology available today.
I was so into CB I had all the linear mics antennas and we would rig ur cobra 128 XL to put out 25 watts, then push 1200 watts. my mom would hate me you could here me through the landline telephone calls
Joe jeans ... and that is called "Harmful Interference" which could have cost you up to $10,000 for each time you pushed the 'magic button' to talk. While you were "just having fun" you were causing problems for your Mom, your Neighbors and many others who were trying to use the channels you were "splattering" all over.
@@SCarter76 yeah but nobody asked.
@w4csc My father talked to a Russian guy during the 60s and mention his father's car in the discussion. The Russian said he had to be lying as an ordinary worker could not possibly have a car of their own. He simply would not believe my father.
@@SCarter76 calm down
...they totally need to upload a full session of them playing dungeons and dragons now, lol
DM Matt Mercer of course.
@@nicholasfotou2980 oh fuck, I didn't even consider that, I n e e d this lol
Would be a long episode..
@@AG.Floats I sat through the whole rapier ep, o would totally watch a DnD ep!
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Having a HAM license myself, I’ve ALWAYS preferred Citizens Band. It’s much more relaxed & interesting to me personally, especially if you know how to navigate the band and beyond. Alpha 76A out of a Sigma 5/8 wave, and talk just about anywhere on earth depending on propagation conditions of the firmament. I just think it’s nice to have a hobby that’s so interesting. Respect to all of those who key down no matter the frequency, power, modulation, transistor, or tubes.
Remember, once you announce your call sign (and you must on all HAM bands), anyone can then know your name, address, and more via the database available to the public & Google. Oh and don’t mess about on a HAM band without a license, they will eventually find you, more so if your local and piss them off enough.
(I) think the reason radio is so interesting & motivating is because we live in an electric realm of frequency and vibration. Tapping into this is like dancing in the unseen ether, connecting to something that is already in and around all of us. The sound of skip gives me goosebumps.
Personally I love all the bands. HAM bands, CB, GMRS, FRS, and MURS
I love the use of firmament. 😉
In the apocalypse,
there's no license required.
When all communication is down then anyone can use a HAM radio.
I mean if you want to spend up to 15 years in a federal facility.
Joking aside, anyone can use a ham radio in an emergency situation. Hopefully this video inspires some of you to get your ticket (license)! - KC3NDY 73
@@rickyshepherd4326 you're gonna follow the laws during apocalypse? xD
When the apocalypse comes... you won't really know how to use your radio if you haven't practiced with it. Get licensed. It's easy, fun, and occasionally even useful.
Amateur radio has literally changed my life, motavated me to study engineering, and has led to many jobs and I haven't even finished school yet.
Using a radio got you many jobs prior to even finishing high school? Huh
D Johnson college
I'm an engineer and dropped out of high school
My license led me into a boring unfufilling job.... if nothing breaks I have nothing to do.. nothing ever breaks
Everybody around 76”-77” had CB’s, for my birthday I got one for my bike. The CB on the handlebars And the antenna was behind the banana seat. 😂
When I was a kid back in '93 or so, I found a kinda portable radio that belonged to my grandpa who was a navy officer way back in the day. I remember turning it on and scanning across the frequencies one day and coming across what seemed to be a police dispatch channel currently being used during some small incident. I of course, being a 9-year-old I thought this was insanely cool and started saying things like "this is tango-six give me your 48-niner" or some crap. They immediately recognized a kid had gotten onto the channel, and were actually amazingly patient telling me how important it is not to talk into the radio.
Thats awesome
Yea I used to have scanners just so I could listen to them.
Kinder, gentler days.... Oh, how I wish for them!
One time during winter I was able to receive British Columbia, and receive and talk with Tahoe.... I was in the BayArea. On top of a mountain. I had a cheap CB radio I bought for $5 @ garage sale, hooked it up to a toy train- track power converter, and a 5ft. Portable antenna.
that's awesome.
I was a fairly avid CBer from the late-1970s until the mid-1990s.
My most memorable CB-related experience occurred in the early-1990s. It was early-summer and I was in Victor Steinbrueck Park immediately adjacent to downtown Seattle. Around 2:00pm PDT I keyed up my little 2- or 3-watt handheld with a rubber ducky antenna and requested a 10-32 (radio check). The reply that I almost immediately received originated from a trucker in Illinois! I'm aware of "atmospheric skip" but that normally occurs at night -- not in the middle of a sunny afternoon. We spent several minutes just shooting the shit, and then we both went our separate ways.
When a human sees a button.
Human:" Must press"
Human does a curious
i do lol
Actually, it's light switches with me. I've gotten in trouble a few times because of it.
Does that include Benjamin button people?
I understand why humans have these impulses. I have them as well
I love how in alot of these episodes Brian always has an Analogy that has to do with a Zombie/Nuclear Apocalypse
Quilt wait.... thats marco diaz
It's a useful analogy, because while an actual zombie apocalypse is just short of impossible, how you prepare for it is super similar to other disaster preparedness scenarios that it's actually useful for teaching general survival tactics.
well yeah, most of this isn't practical day to day when you can open up a website and order a knife that'll arrive faster than you can probably find material, shape, and sharpen into one, and probably be a lot better (and cheaper if you had to buy any thing).
Similarly there are a number of communication platforms that use the internet or cellular service at this point which is fairly good in most places and transmit more clearly than radio without any unnecessary tests or rules, not to mention your phone/computer/device likely has the ability to use software to clean up the transmission automatically. Plus there are multiple companies/corporations? now planning on launching thousands of micro-satellites in the near future that should given even better coverage and speed.
Downside is that they do require the infrastructure built up over decades to work and very few people understand enough that they could recreate them on any scale if those failed. Though I suppose 2.6 million is probably still fairly small and who knows how many of them really know their stuff, it's a lot simpler to make a radio out of scrap laying around than a computer (assuming you don't have actual computers laying around) or pick up a piece of metal and shape it into a tool than try to communicate with a chain of people to some factory that used to make them in order to have one delivered.
Of course something like a hurricane knocking out power and roads is a mini-apocalypse and can just as effectively end that infrastructure for a period of time, it's just less fun to refer to :)
reminds him of home
The zombie apocalypse is coming and they will be ready with there ham radios and sword fighting skills
I was licensed in the early 70. Still have a extra license almost 50 years ago. A mature radio is dead. 2 meter suck, Hf down the tube. You can have the best radio equipment in town, but it’s a boat anchor with nobody to talk to. Bands are dead.
There is always someone on air, especially if you use CW. Have you tried digital FT8? I'm in the UK and yesterday on FT8 had reports from Brazil and China plus Europe and north america. On CW I worked all over too.
America is dead. Our signals don't even go as far as other places because of all the RF junk in the air they are pumping us full of to keep us sick. 2m,6m it's all a joke.
When I was little, I remember helping my dad set up an antenna for a lady's CB radio. She was up in years, and I think that was her main form of socializing. If I remember right, she was a trucker when she was younger and got involved in the culture through that. My dad said a lot of his side of the family had them, too. Again, truckers and farmers. It's isolated out here, and I can take the isolation because the internet gives me a feeling of connection. It's interesting to see how earlier generations filled that same need. I read an article that talked about old farmers setting up makeshift phone networks with barbed wire fence to keep in touch with the community.
Farmers in rural places used the wire that spanned dozens of miles to contact their neighbors and would regularly have a group chat with the people connected on the line
I found some old US Army field telephones under the kitchen basement of my prep school and set them up between some juniors' and senior' rooms. The Headmaster didn't take kindly to that and had me pull up a mile of twin conductor cable I and my partners-in-crime had buried or suspended between buildings at night! It was fun while it lasted. I didn't graduate cum laude either! Was lucky to have made it out with my diploma! Never-the-less, the education was priceless compared to the swill the public schools have been puting out for the past 20 to 30 years. That's why we're in this mess, today. God help us! Looks like the "grand experiment" is over.
@@spamcan2551 the grand experiment died the moment Progressive Socialists got the 16th and 17 Amendments to the Constitution ratified.
@@hudsondonnell444 Really the 19th doomed us to be replaced eventually................ Molon labe
I would love a mini-series about Brian and Jason getting licensed for HAM radio.
How “mini” did you have in mind, because a reasonably intelligent English speaking human can read through the book once and pass the test. It was different when you had to learn Morse code. That was too high a barrier to entry for many people, but they dropped the code requirement years ago. It’s a lot easier now, thus the time and effort to be prepared is much lower.
@@hometownmedic7355 maybe 2 or 3 more episodes, nothing major, it would mostly be an excuse to chill with Josh and nerd out about some stuff. Although watching Brian and Jason walk through the process would also be entertaining, it'd be funny to watch Brian take a standardized test with dramatic editing going on.
You can also just memorize the answers to the test pool questions which are publlically available. But there are free Technician courses on UA-cam so you can actually know what you are doing.
@@hometownmedic7355 I remember those days. I was elated when I passed my 5-wpm and could talk on 10 meters. I haven't been on air for years now, my house burned down and I never replaced my equipment, although I do have one of those $30 HTs just in case I ever need it.
Super easy process
I still have a cb radio in my pickup. still use it on the logging roads.
Imagine: "KI6NAZ, KI6NAZ, be advised, we are commencing a vibe check on your location."
yes
over
I'm picking up good vibrations
"KI6NAZ W7KZE CQ CQ" Rolls 16 sided die for chances of successful communication.
checking VSWR on your new dipole is literally just a vibe check
I'm going to go ahead and claim the Wizard if we're setting up a D&D group over the radio :D
Great video again guys. Thanks for lettng me play!
Ham Radio Crash Course there’s nothing I’d love more than seeing these guys play dnd. If you have any ability to push these guys to do it, that’d be amazing.
Thanks for spreading the love of the hobby. KV5JMK
Thanks for spreading the word. ZL4WW
Great video (and I’m in for D&D - maybe over some FT8 variant?) 73 -KC9YFH
Awesome seeing how excited the guys are about the hobby. Got my license at 13, many years back, but haven't been on in quite a while. I keep it active though, just in case (I'm old enough I got my Novice when still had to pass 5wpm) - KA3ZXO
My father had a Ham radio that I got when he died. It is old and is a receiver only Tube type that still works. I don't really listen to it but it was my Dad's so I like having it. He used to sit and listen to it for hours, fiddling with the knobs and frequencies just to see what he could find.....Just remembering : /
Amazing graphics. And the constant miles to km converting is just perfect. :D Gotta love the editors!! This production quality is what separates good channels from great ones. !!
Also, Brian and Jason are cool too.
I've been a licenced amateur for a little over a year. I took my tech, and then immediately started studying and got my general like 3 months later (it can be done WAY quicker but I'm in college, give me a break). It was actually your video on Number Stations forever ago that got me super interested in it again. I had read about it as a kid but quickly forgot about it until that video showed up in my feed. I can't express to you how fun it is. Also, Josh, Huge fan of the HRCC channel as well! I'm super excited that you guys are FINALLY going down this rabbit hole. I love your videos.
I'll go look for the videos you mentioned. Do you have any other suggestions for someone who wants to get their amateur license?
@@ddegn arrlexamreview.appspot.com/ is a really good place to start. ARRL memberships are subscription-based BUT exam accounts like this one are FREE. You can take as many practice tests on there as you want. You can also download and study the entire question pool here: www.arrl.org/question-pools. A lot of the Technician (lowest level license) stuff is just common sense. If you tried hard enough you could probably be ready in a week or two. I recommend buying a cheap radio before you take the test so that you are motivated to actually study for the test. Actually having the necessary equipment in front of you makes it a lot easier and more exciting to study so that you can actually press that transmit button, but that's just my opinion. UA-cam has hundreds of videos on studying for tests, and even though the exam question pools change every once and a while, the questions are pretty much the same every time, just worded differently. Good luck! 73 73 73 de KE0RAG!
There's a really good guide online that goes over all the possible questions. I took the tech and it was pretty easy. They offered that I could take the general while I was there too so I did and only failed by a couple of questions (given that I had not studied for it, that's fair enough, I think). Nobody should be scared to study and take the test, they are not designed to make it hard to get a license, only to make sure you have the knowledge to use the equipment in a safe and courteous manner.
Thanks to your show for renergizing my interest in ham radio. I rewatched this episode a few months ago andjust finished getting my ham license.
@The Modern Rogue
I saw this and it opened my eyes. I am now licensed as a general. Thanks for this!
Glad you guys finally touched on ham radio. I've been licensed since 2012. It's a great hobby! My furthest contact was from my home base in NY (near the Canadian border) all the way over to Ukraine! A radio I fixed up myself, an antenna I built myself, and 100 watts of power!
I'm also glad you covered not transmitting without a license. There was a disgruntled volunteer EMS provider locally that got a Baofeng (the radios shown in this video) he decided to mess with a local EMS company I worked for. We tracked him down and reported him to the FCC. Don't be a fool!
TheBullfrog89 that’s different from casually using these radios in to coordinate between your friends in a forest on an unused frequency or even FRS/GMRS band that the blister pack radios use.
@@samuelseidel6148 I understand what your saying, I think. My point was if you mess with these radios, you need to know what your doing. Even accidentally transmitting on the wrong frequency you will be found and fined. Only use them on the frequencies you can legally use.
@@chopperboi89 how do they find you from a 10sec transmission?
@@maxinvasionleet Special antennas built for direction finding. get a bunch of people with them, and they can track pretty quickly. We even do what we call "fox hunting" to practice. Someone (licensed) has a transmitter, sending a signal and everyone else tracks them down.
@@maxinvasionleet There are orienteering events based around radio. Orienteering in it's traditional form is going to a place you haven't been before and using a map and compass to find a series of small flags, and punching a card to prove you were there. All this against the clock. The location of the flag is marked on the map for compass based games.
Radio based has only a few 'foxes' that transmit pings, the map is blank except for the game boundaries, and you use directional radio receivers to triangulate and find these tiny radios. If it's possible to find 3 tiny boxes scattered randomly through the woods with lightweight handheld receivers, it's definitely possible to find someone doing rogue transmissions using proper equipment.
And everybody licensed for radio has to know the physics of radio propagation, plenty of nerds to get directional radio antennas, tight knit enough to share data, and hate bad actors that could result in having the amateur bands taken away. Three Letter Agencies can and do show up on people's doorsteps over this.
This video is what inspired me to get my license. I had heard about ham radio but never really knew what it was about or what it could do. Now I'm getting started with EchoLink and getting my first DMR radio here in a bit.
73, KO4HJF
Great to see the Ham radio videos on your channel. Nice work Josh too! Thanks Modern Rogue, keep the radio videos up.
"Hey Folks, Bruce Banner here, AKA DJ Hulk, brodcasting on the gamma wavelength all through the night"
Copy that DJ Hulk this is BIG MNSTR over
This is GOD SPEAKING, YOU MUST AGREE THAT HAM RADIO IS A GREAT IDEA... FIRST I WANTED TO MAKE IT OUT OF PIGS BUT THESE HUMANS ARE REALLY CLEVER AND MADE IT OUT OF PLASTIC AND METAL, SURE THERE MIGHT BE PROBLEMS WITH PIGS, SIZE BEING JUST ONE.. HOWEVER SEEING AS MY IDEAS ARE CLEARLY LESS THAN THAT OF MAN, I'M GONNA GO HAVE A PICNIC WITH SATAN'S MOTHER MAUREEN.
@@livedandletdie Wait a minute! I thought Satan's mother was named "Karen"!
you do know that gamma is on the other side of the EM spectrum?
I had loads of fun back in the late 70s, and early 80s with CB radio. We used to play "fox and hound" DF (Direction finding) games. My car had co-phased 8ft antennas towards the last 1/3 of the the car body. We could often find the fella(s) who were playing the "fox" by carefully circling the car and watching the change in the built in "S" (Signal strength) meter in the radio. Once someone found the "fox", we'd all go for coffee and snacks. Generally most CBers were kindly folks. It was also nice to listen to folks all over the world chatting when "skip" (the signals bounced off the upper atmosphere) was in. This post brought back fond memories of friends, so long since passed.
My grandfather was W2ROT, he said it was 'with two rotten old tomatoes'. He helped design and install the early color television transmitters in Syracuse NY. I also had a totally blind roommate who passed the ham test with flying colors and enjoyed talking to people all over. The local club drove him to the white cross building and administered the test. Back in the 80s cb radio was still very popular. Ham radio privileges opened a vast new world of possibilities for who you could talk to and the distance you could communicate. Cheers, great video.
4G: I have the largest cell coverage!
5G: I have the strongest signal ever!
2m: Amateurs!
**I have found the drug money**
*The cop listening*: Hold up, wait a minute, something ain't right.
"Just kidding*
*the cop listening* oh okay. Forget it
I'm assuming they picked a frequency that they knew wasn't widely used.
That would be commercial business, right, so that would be a no no
AND Broadcasting is something you want to look into
Some years ago an ARES group wanted to do a countywide exercise that included hams at various EOCs thoughout the county. It was summer time, hot, but the exercise simulated a snowstorm so people listening will not get confused if a wildland fire was the event. Even though everyone said drill trafffic at end of messages, well you know the usual not everyone listens to the full transmission.
I’m a HAM (W4ADH) and this was very fun to watch. Very accurate and excellent info for anyone wanting to become licensed. Great work!
Accurate info? So you agree that if someone transmits without using a call sign that you’d find them and show up at their house?
That’s what he said in the video. You think that’s accurate? I think it’s not worth it. You could get shot by someone.
My CB call sign was KAJB 0961, yes, I was licenced. My "handle" was "Red Sled", I had a FIAT X/1/9. de AD5TD
my dad got caught speeding by a cop with a cb who assured him that there were no speed traps ahead xD
Great stuff!!! Brings back memories. Kid up the street on a hill used to have a Drake 2B pulled in stuff from all over the world, and could sometimes skip back. Wall covered in cq cards. He had it bad. I just used to listen to all sorts of long range broadcastsfrom around the world (RFE, BBC, German & Mexican stations.). Fun! Late nite listening. Thankyou for the Wayback Machine, Sherman.
This is a pretty fun episode! Josh's dry humor is great.
I have a story that I am sure was illegal on many levels after watching this video. For the record, no agency ever came knocking on our door, not because we were smart but because we lucky I guess. I was born and raised in a place that is now called Silicon Valley. My older brother bought a base unit CB radio but one of his friends knew a "guy" who mods CB radios. I do not know exactly what was done but I think it opened up other frequencies, again not sure. Anyway, the CB antennae was on top of our giant redwood tree in our back yard. I do not remember how far he could transmit and receive. I remember being able to eavesdrop into phone conversation from the new tech of cordless/wireless home phones. We could even talk over them and repeat what they just said. yes creepy and illegal. I assumed it was just from our immediate neighborhood. He never had a HAM Radio license. I'm surprised it was never hit with a lightning strike. If someone asked him about his setup , my brother would say 85' mast growing about 8" per year. lol. peace
Nowadays everything is encrypted.
Born and raised in San Jose. the good old days. Now that everything is encrypted. I'm just getting into Ham.
Ppl with a license and no life…😂 aka the “sad ham” you can find a lot of them in the comment sections of YT 😉
And in all of FCC history not even a citation was given to any unlicensed user of a UV-5R. As long as you use it as a simplex com, stay on safe frequencies and limit your Tx to 4W or less even the worst case of spurious emission won’t affect any air traffic beacons or shipping navigation.
@Sundas The Savage spitting facts
thats actually sick i wish i was alive when that was possible
He has a special set of skills, that makes him a nightmare to trolls like you. He will look for you, he will RF direction find you and he WILL take away your ham radio privileges.
My grandfather passed a few months ago, he loved his radio, antenna set up in the backyard. His call sign was KA0ROA
If you want to claim his call as a memorial call, you can do so. Family members are permitted to do that, you just need to match his license level (e.g. if he was General, you'd need to be General) and submit proof of death to the FCC and a request to claim his call as a vanity (after getting your sequentially-issued one.) Otherwise two years after the FCC learns of his death, his call will be released and can be claimed by anyone.
the subtle clickbait. i like it. no all caps, just mellow and chill
Chillbait
I love the energy between the three of you. It's so positive and infectious. I was watched the first video I came across from this channel 2 days ago, about the short scan signals for numbers station. In that video, when the guy with the glasses was getting excited about finding something on the rainbow of signals, I was getting excited too.
“Like reddit moderators....”
Radio locked, y’all can’t behave!!
y'all'd've behaved before the radio was locked
@@Napert y'all'd've'nt
reddit moderators are the worst :/
redditors are the worst
Unlock the radio :)
I have to say, HRCC is a wonderful alternative to the doldrums that HAM Nation has become. Modern Rogue just takes it to the next level. If you guys did a strictly ham podcast produced to this quality or even half as good, I'd watch every single time.
I appreciate the kind words!
HRCC live streams on Friday nights are awesome... 🍻📻
Yeah, HRCC and AmateurLogic have always been way better than HAM Nation.
What is HRCC ?
It’s amazing how people are when they speak about their passions and better yet to a group of others who share that passion. 🎉😊
I'm expecting a five hour upload of that dungeons and dragons one shot.
Also chrystal based radios! What radio wizards used before we had transistors.
Phill still have a crystal realistic radio in my rig! Love that thing!!
How about crystal meth based radios, I hear they're somewhat addictive?
eh... transistor radios used crystals to determine the channel freq. also.
Used to work at the parts department at Yaseu. Lemme tell you HAMs are a different breed entirely. Some great stories and some painful customer service interactions.
@B P Thanks, you beat me to one of my pet peeves. "Ham" is a very old nickname with a mysterious etymology. It doesn't stand for anything. The actual name is the Amateur service.
I was a kid in the 70s, and dad always had a CB radio in both his truck and mom's station wagon. I still use CB radios today, albeit a Cobra 29ltd bluetooth, and a Cobra 2000 gtl base station at home. I also have several handheld HAM radios, and have my HAM licence. If something were to happen to terrestrial communications, CBs are a valuable means of communications. All of my children, including neices and nephews have as well.
One of the nice thing about HAM culture is that when you make a new friend over the air, you can exchange post cards of your home town (or whatever). Many operators have collections of post cards from years of meeting people.... also, aside from bouncing off the moon, you can sometimes use the atmosphere to skip the signal (like skipping rocks on water) and increase distance with the same power.
The Loma Priata Earthquake was in 1989, before cell phones were really a thing everyone had.
After the quake power and phones were out for some time, Ham radio operators put out signs offering to send messages. They'd contact other hams outside the effected area and those hams would call people on the phone to pass on messages.
And they did it for free. They were heroes.
Legally speaking, we are required by law to do such work free of charge and are not permitted to profit monetarily from the use of our licenses. That is the basic deal in exchange for otherwise free use of often very valuable radio frequency real estate.
@@ethanpoole3443 Sorry, but I find that hard to believe. I can maybe understand doing it at cost, but to force someone to do something for free, especially if providing that service has costs associated with it (such as long distance phone call charges) seems a bit out of line.
Can you provide a reference to these laws?
Eric Taylor I’d be happy to do so. While it is very briefly, if a little opaquely, touched upon in the opening section of FCC Part 97.1a (under Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations) with the words “voluntary *noncommercial* communications service” (note: in this instance the use of “noncommercial” is used in the broadest sense of “commerce” to reference any sort of work in exchange for compensation, whether paid, barter, or in-kind exchange). However, the restriction is most clearly spelled out under Part 97.113 under the heading of “Prohibited Transmissions”. Under Part 97.113a(2) it is prohibited to engage in “communications for hire or material compensation, direct or indirect, paid or promised, except as otherwise provided for in these rules.” Also, under Part 97.113a(3) we are forbidden to engage in “communications in which the station licensee or control operator has a pecuniary interest, including communications on behalf of an employer, with the following exceptions. The exceptions touched upon under Part 97.113a(3)i-iv cover (paraphrased for brevity): i) operating on behalf of an employer in an emergency or readiness drill (this is to permit agencies like the Red Cross as well as licensed federal, state, county, or city emergency management officials to legally communicate with amateurs where their transmissions are merely an incidental aspect of their job and not the primary reason for their job during emergency and simulated disasters/drills); ii) an amateur operator may make occasional advertisements regarding the availability of goods or equipment for sale or trade that are specifically related to Amateur Radio Service (the on air “swap meet” exception); iii) compensation as an incident of a teaching position during the time of use (the school Radio Club exemption); and iv) the control operator of a club station may accept compensation for the periods of time when a station is transmitting telegraphy practice and bulletins for at least 40 hours each week, provided the service is offered on six, or more, MF or HF bands (1.8-30MHz) and where regular schedules are published at least 30 days in advance and the operator is in no way otherwise compensated for that time (in essence, a full time on air Morse code teacher may be compensated for their time if they are not otherwise compensated elsewhere).
Anyone may read the entirety of the Part 97 rules under which the Amateur Radio Service (as well as Part 95 if also interested in CB, FRS, or GMRS) is established online at the FCC.gov website or as part of the full Code of Federal Regulations under Title 47, Part 97. You can also access the Part 97 rules in their entirety at the American Radio Relay League’s website (our national club and lobbying entity) at ARRL.org (just search for “part 97” in the search box in the upper right-hand corner of the page),
@@ethanpoole3443 Thanks, but I think I see the problem here. See the word "voluntary"? No one is forced to provide these services. They are just not allowed to charge for them.
And though I'm no lawyer, I think the "non-commercial" has to do with no compensation for profit. I could be wrong, but there is a law in aviation sort of like this.
There is sort of the same thing in aviation. There are several different classes of pilot's license. The two that apply here are "private pilot's license" and "commercial pilot's license"
A commercial pilot has nothing to do with airliners. These two license types apply to general aviation. mostly "Cessna" type planes. It has to do with what the pilot can and cannot charge for his services.
A commercial pilot is allowed to charge passengers for profit. A private pilot can also charge his passengers but he can only charge the cost of operating. He can't charge for his labor.
Lets say you want me to give you a ride in my plane. it costs costs me say $100 per hour in fuel and maintenance. As a commercial pilot I could charge you $200 for a 1 hour ride, but as a private pilot I can still make you pay for the ride, but I can only charge you $100 for a one hour ride.
It simply wouldn't be reasonable to make the pilot fly you around for free, if it costs him to do so.
Wow I didn't expect a fast-paced overview of things. This is valuable to someone who knows little about radios and spectrum usage. I love it.
I still remember the 1 time that somebody was pounding on my door and let me know there's a fire. I went out to my car, and was about ready to leave, then I remembered that I have a radio in my car. I put it up, (magnetic mounts with a cigarette plug), and turned on my linear amp so I could reach my grandfather. I identified and started transmitting, EMERGENCY. Grandpa! I'm about ready to have my house burn down. I'm about ready to leave but fire!!!" I didn't know what else to do, but I remembered: "if there is ever an emergency, use this." I did, and when I was leaving 8 plows were making circles around the house, I was leaving after I got my dog and cats in the car and just went to "anywhere but here!"
Radio is a very useful tool in the right circumstances. I got radioed back 3 hours later, (I went and hid in the canyon), that my house is now safe to return to. Radio is very very useful, but I was trained to never pick up the mic unless lives might be in danger, but I can listen all I want.
Fascinating story do you mind telling us the damage that the fire caused?
I have had my license for 4 years now. Best thing I've done!!! 73 to all
4 years, and yet you still say "73" incorrectly... hmm...
@@AureliusR He didn't say it incorrectly what are you talking about?
@@Bluegillbronco2 He edited his comment after I posted mine ;) Notice how it now says (edited)
No cell towers? No Wi-Fi?
Then it's a fair bet there's no FCC.
You'd be surprised how many remote ham operators feel the need to police spectrum even when nobody's bothering anybody. I get it in an urban environment, or when someone is causing interference, but a LOT of the old timers (a large percent of the community) feel like they are the FCC's hall monitors.
@@notsure7874 I meant in a post-apocalyptic situation. In the event of a total government collapse, you think they'd be able to stop all the random people who raided Wal Mart for radios like in this video and just started talking? Especially when they can't even threaten to report them to the FCC?
@@IncredibleMD I somehow think that even if there was an apocalyptic event, and government was down - there'd still be Ham Karens trying to police the airwaves :D
But ya - SHTF, the FCC is irrelevant.
@@notsure7874 Key word there is TRYING.
All it takes to take down WiFi and cell towers is someone with a Ditch Witch digging in the wrong spot and cutting a fiber optic cable.
Three types of people:
1.) "like a FRS, GM- something"
2.) "GMRS"
3.) "LETTERS"
I love that term that they used "Informal Band Plan" ! I always had one of those when I was playing in Rock bands !!!
The main issue isn't any "harmful inteferences". The main issue is that after introduction of cheap chinese radios, available for everyman, the ham radio phenomenon and its community is rapidly losing its long time taken for granted prestige. Additional problem is that ham people suddenly realized how they had many times absurdly overpaid for the same equipment, only branded with "known brands". And third issue is that normal people realized that ham radio operation is not any esoteric knowledge for the elect, but in fact very trivial thing. It is all about lost prestige and exclusiveness.
HRCC and Modern Rogue seems like a perfect combination really. HRCC is awesome by the way! Thanks Modern Rogue for these video's exploring amateur radio and just how "cool" it can actually be.
73's
N0MLP
They are acting like the FCC has someone sitting around every couple of square miles listening in for unlicensed radio activity. You can use these day to day for normal use as long as you aren't constantly broadcasting, and you will likely never hear a peep from any government agency.
Just do not use it at your house, walk around the neighbor hood, or do like people do with computers if they do not want to get caught doing thing, They go to a free wife area, so just go to a park or something and use it. no way they can track you all the time think someone said in Florida there are just 5 agents in the whole state
Yip. Do your illegal broadcasting at random locations and don't use the same location often.
Sounds like entrapment
It depends on what you are doing, you are stepping on somebody's foot, a licensed user, specifically government or commercial, they find you, bc they depend on their service working.
I remember the first time i watched this video i could not push the ptt button. I passed my test last year. Its so cool to see this video pop back up in my recommended.
There is a difference between being able to do something and not being allowed to ;)
Why we aren't allowed to push this button
Get out of here with your technicalities
"Why 2.6 Million People May Push This Button But We Mayn't" doesn't have quite the same ring to it and sounds rather archaic.
Because your dong will fall off. If you were licensed, you'd know that you have to wear safety equipment that protects your dong. Happy transmitting!
15743 Hertz rubber band job like?
@@kavalogue Ssh! I'm really not supposed to tell, but I'll give a clue: search google for "chainmail condom".
I studied like crazy to ace my Amateur Extra exam, then found that the local radio club was not very welcoming (perhaps because the president had failed to earn his Extra license) and so I pursued other interests. Now there are some new, inexpensive radios which makes playing around in HAM radio much easier.
Though Citizens Band has fallen to Skip Worlders, it is still a good radio practice to have it on hand for EmComm operations. Matter of fact my EmComm set up has the following types of radios. UHF AMATEUR, UHF BUSINESS, UHF PUBLIC SAFETY, VHF AMATEUR, VHF BUSINESS, VHF PUBLIC SAFETY, FRS, GMRS, CB, HF AMATEUR, HF CAP, HF MARS ALL TRANSCEIVERS ARE CAPABLE OF ALL MODE OPERATIONS TO INCLUDE DMR, PROVOICE AND NXDN EXCEPT THE FRS / GMRS TRANSCEIVERS. I ALSO RUN SEVERAL RECEIVERS SO THE PROBABILITY OF MISSING AN EMERGENCY CALL IS REDUCED.
"don't press the Button "
" i want to "
' WHY WOULD U "
"chill its a radio"
Who actually liked this tho
🙃
You ever try to keep a 5 year old away from pushable buttons.....????
A few years ago I was on a large worksite with hundreds of people from dozens of companies and everyone had UHF CBs (Australia). After switching channels for awhile my crew found a clean one with no one else on it, score. Fast forward 3 days and we are called up on that channel by search and rescue, we had been bouncing off a repeater and they had spent the last 3 days flying around trying to get within our receive range to tell us to get of channel.
Hot tip, stay off 5 and 35 in Australia.
Oh shit, you actually went onto the emergency repeater simplex and duplex.
Yeah, hope you guys didn't get fined!
@@mattymerr701 They were nice enough to let us off with a warning, honestly I would like to see the emergency frequencies noted on the handset so people don't make the same mistake we did.
The CB Craze was centered in 1975 and 1976 mostly after the movie Smokey and the Bandit was released starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Fields, Jerry Reed along with Jackie Gleason. It popularized CB radios to an unheard of point to the dismay of 18 wheel truckers everywhere.
I remember my sister actually got her FCC call sign when she was heavy into CB. Had a big base station, power mic. I could be wrong, it has been, 40 years or so. . . KAGH-3588 that sounds right. . .maybe. Oh, I was the Boston Strangler. CB was nuts back then. Meets, parties, the custom vsn club every truck had a rig, and 100 pounds of vibrant shag carpet.
@Robert Slackware your grandmother did what now? The only times I've been shot at were doing cop tows on abandoned vehicles. Nobodies granny ever popped a shot at me and I don't like the implications behind accusing me of picking a house. I'm no burglar.
@Robert Slackware so, you're referring to the actual Boston Strangler from the early 60s and having nothing to do with the subject at hand?
When i was in the service i operated fm, hf, shf, uhf, and vhf. Between handheld prc-148 mbitrs to shf radios that took 2 or more guys just to move the transmitter. Even some ku band satcom work too.
"You're like Reddit moderators!" - Everybody laughs.
Yeah...that's not a good thing.
I wouldn't advocate preppers to get their license, if the SHTF the FCC isn't going to be running around checking licenses. But the FCC can inspect your station WITHOUT a warrant. The last thing you're probably going to want as a prepper is a Fed Agency coming through your home, unannounced and without the necessity of a warrant.
When I got a CB radio in 1970's, my dad had to get a CB licence for me . We got a letter with our call sign from the FCC.. a few months later they no longer required you to have one.
.....what was your 20 back then ? I still have many C B units , base and mobile . One of my base units have side bands . With a good mic & ground plane antenna ! Get back into it , and practice radio procedures . Maranatha !
Every time they say "UHF," I think of the Weird Al Yankovic movie!
Someones pushing their 40's lol
Had on in my Jeep wrangler.
Just a UHF 80 channel here in australia and it was the best thing ever. Awesome for a laugh on the highway with the truckers and especially helpful with incidents and accidents that happened up the road.
I do miss having it
Where I live we had illegal public transportation services still using radio to avoid cops up until like one or two years ago.
@@vlc-cosplayer It's the best way I could explain it, English isn't my first language. They worked exactly like public transportation, but weren't organized by the government and used vans instead of buses.
can we just let Jason do a D&D ep we already let Brian show off his fire eating
Demont both of them doing it in quick succession in the background of each other with their individual cameras eagerly proving to themselves they are the best at what they do
I had picked up a used CB radio many years back and after I got it home, I decided to check things out. With the help of a frequency counter, I discovered it was transmitting on every band out there including police, emergency vehicle, aircraft, etc. I check it because when I had tried transmitting, it would trip the local banks security system and had police crawling around the area trying to find who was transmitting on their private frequencies. I got rid of that radio very quickly by destroying it.
Somebody messed with the filters - this should not happen normally. This reminds me of the old moped days, where some folks thought replacing the exhaust on a 2-stroke with a garden hose would make it faster. This is just stupid and demonstrates little understanding of physics.
I am a General class operator which has been licensed since 2007 even though my info on QRZ says Effective 4/25/2017. I mainly listen to and transmit on the Western Intertie Network. I think I'd enjoy chatting with Brian and Jason. You guys should go take the test. 73s from Chris - KI6KTL (Kilo India 6 Kilo Tango Lima)
Hi. - KC2FBH ( Kilo Charlie 2 Foxtrot Bravo Hotel )
10:07 - Being an amateur radio operator (KI5AOK), I just want to point this time stamp out in the video. Notice that when the display shows the frequency, it says "GMRS2 462.587". For those of you who are starting out in Amateur radio, the Beofang units will transmit on frequencies that are not part of the amateur band. This includes the 30 channels that are for General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS), which occupies the 462 and 467 MHz band (which is outside Amateur radio license area of 420-450 MHz). Transmitting in the GMRS assigned channels require two things:
- A different set of call signs (seven characters, consisting of four alpha and three numeric [i.e. WRAW744, which is my GMRS call sign]
- A part 95 certified radio.
The problem with the mobile radios shown is that they are part 90 certified, which means that the Baofeng used cannot legally transmit on GMRS, even if you have a GMRS license. They work for the topic that is being discussed (amateur radio channels) but not for GMRS.
Also, if you are too buy a baofeng; many distributors have begun locking the tx(transmit), as well as the raddiodity gt5r has it locked as well for sure. In order to stop from being used on frs/gmrs
Yeah but who cares
What a great group of guys. I could watch this all day
11:34 this is literally why you dont give random people radios especially the ham ones.
I have had my license for many years. I haven't done voice in a long time I mainly use my license for APRS and FPV RC aircraft.
thanks for making this video. very helpful, one of the best out there to help new people.
When i first saw this on my phone, the word button cut off at butt, and i read it as "Why 2.6 million people can push this up their butt."
I am okay with this.
Thats question 12 on the test. 'Refrain from putting radio antenna up butt'
@@pluto8404 can someone Jason please confirm this?
@@pluto8404 Some weirdo is going to try this now. Stay tuned for the video of doctors laughing at FR burns 18" inside someone colon.
@@herbalmelon8928 It's on the internet isn't it?
Now you ought to have Josh bring over his HF rig. You could play around with some serious long distance communications.
Get your tickets! You're both geeky enough to enjoy the hobby, and all the weird stuff you can do with radios.
I've been licensed for 43-years, and noticed your KIxxx callsign. When I was licensed I received one of the first KAxxxx "2x3" callsigns. I'd hoped for a WD4 prefix, but these ran out, so KA prefixes were next (formerly used for the Canal Zone). The problem was that a KAxxxx callsign marked you as a rookie to the hamming hobby and you just didn't get the respect the W's automatically had. That was then. Today, a KAxxxx callsign is the mark of the oldest, saltiest operator on the bands. The hobby today is nothing like the one I entered. We knew radio design and most of the on-air equipment was home-built or from a kit like Heathkit. Today, virtually all gear is bought off-the-shelf. We were morse code communicators. Today, most hams couldn't recognize their own callsign sent to them in morse code. Strict requirements for licensing meant the hobby remained professional. Discarding all the standards invited the riff-raff. The abuses you hear on-air daily didn't occur in the old days. Why was Channel 19 always the zoo it was? Because anyone could get a CB and talk on it. Once that was applied to Amateur Radio... the results were the same.
Tough shit, gramps.
I've been avoiding this recommendation for a year and now I'm so mad at myself
I remember as a kid with one of those low-cost walkie talkies you bought at a department store for kids (late 70s early 80s) and I once talked to someone over 20 miles away, never could figure out how that was possible and how the CB radio we had could pick it up several miles away regularly. Talking to the other walkie talkie was a range of about half a mile.
most those walkie talkies back then operated on a single fixed CB channel. Had a pair, worked on channel 5, would park my car in a parking lot, with squelch set high and PA speaker on, in my friends car across the lot would wait until someone passed in front of my car key the walkie talkie and scare the crap out of them! and since worked off crystals to select the channel frequency could change out the crystals and use a different channel .
First video I saw on your channel. Nice, interesting and fun. Instant sub!
Had the no code techs from aarl TRY and track us outlaw CB Modders down to no avail. Back in my misspent youth.
Its amazing how some jumper cables and a railroad track can mess with triangilation
When I go over the speed limit I break a law. When I push the button I break a law. The man keeping me down.
Only when you get caught
Transmitting without knowing what other communications you're disrupting is no joke. Whether you're interfering with your local fire department or a drug lord, you're inviting unwanted consequences. Speed limits are sometimes overly restrictive, and some seem designed as revenue schemes. The regulations governing radio are minimal, designed to be only as restrictive as needed to keep a common public resource available to serve everyone.
Paul Plack, Breaking the law is breaking the law. There is no gray area. You can think that speeding laws are overly restrictive but if you go past the posted speed limit you are breaking the law. Speed limits are no joke and set to keep the public safe. Life is full of choices and there may be consequences to those choices.
@@Biogasifier the government overreach is astounding. It's the same thing the FCC telling everyone they need a license to talk and farther than across a room. I gladly break any unconstitutional "law" that limits my free speech.
@@Biogasifier the FCC needs to go!
less than 3 miles and had problem with 2 meter band, had to switch to 70 cm band. i have a ways to go understanding all these variables. i appreciate the video, this is all new to me, thanks!!!
So happy to see Ham Radio be mainstream! -73 DE KG5PKX K