5:34 when I was 10 I was scanning radios AND SHAT MY SELF SO BADLY when I heard this I ain't so scared now and find some wacky transmissions this brought me back some memories.
Used to do lots of scanning back in the late 80's on UHF/VHF and used to leave it scanning frequencies all day whilst i was out at work. It was connected to a voice operated recorder connected to a tape deck which would kick in on a voice signal. Days went by without anything but then one day i came home after work and saw the tape had moved. On playback i got a crystal clear signal of a strong American accent saying "Cigarette calling Radar.....cigarette calling radar". I can't remember the rest but if i can find the tape i will let you know.
@@RingwayManchester I was scanning USAF signals intelligence frequencies. It's surprising what you could pick up back then with a scanner radio which cost me just £80 and a £25 discone antenna.
@@nickdesaint4601 Hi Nick...it was a good few years back - late 80s early 90s and i cant remember any of them. It was a bit like fishing a pool without knowing if any fish were there! Eventually i got a "bite" but the only way to do it is using a voice operated device coupled between scanner radio and cassette recorder so it "kicks in" the tape when an audio signal is picked up.
Used to scare myself daft when I was a kid listening to shortwave beacons, and other such repeating signals. Nice pictures of Jodrell at the end of the video. I have been up in the dish several times, great experience. Also had the honour to press the button in the control room that turned the dish. Great video keep them coming. Cheers Lynton G4XCQ
I used to use my grandpas shortwave receiver as a little girl and thought it was a thing of satan And now shortwave radio chatter lulls me to sleep, trying to learn Morse code now because it’s so common
@@RingwayManchester That's old Squeeky he's been about for years ,back in the 80s in London there was Squeeky clones on UKCB on Ch19 constantly annoying everyone, even DJ Tony Blackburn who was a avid cber himself made a official complaint about them in which he got the piss taken out him by the Squeekys on the air ,this was years before Fred in the Shed 's Hi Guys , Hi Guys is one of there mates on there nets the Fred and his lot do Squeeky was in a different class ,CLASSIC .
The pitch-shifting altitude transmission at 4:23 reminded me of audio variometers used in sailplanes. In fact, I think that's exactly what it was. Sounds like it had a few telemetry sensors and alternated between them.
The last one reminds me of the test tones that used to be sent out by the MOD by landline to the various fallout shelters ensuring the operability of government communications
@timothy frangopulo It does but while the Home Office/Scottish Office police and fire base allocations were at the time occupying 97.6 - 102.1 MHz, the top end of Band II from 104.0 to 108 MHz was allocated on a permitted basis to Land Mobile and was used by the power (gas and electricity) boards and water boards. I'm inclined to think it was probably a telemetry signal for the latter. Unless due to a fault it would not be aeronautical as our host suggested. I don't think there were any military, government agencies or spooks in that band as it could be easily received by many a cheap broadcast radio.. My source is a hard copy of the Revised International Table of Frequency Allocations as published by the Home Office after WARC 1979.
My guess would be radiated emmisions from power lines for that final sample... It sounds similar to the tones used to control tariff switching on consumer power meters. That's all digital now but it used to use a schema similar to DTMF that's used in phone dialling today.
I have a ham radio in my Jeep and used to keep it on scan all the time. It was connected to my head unit with an aux Jack when it would pick up it would over ride the stereo. I would forget about it. One day the wife and I headed into town and the radio picked up something on Lower or upper side band, I forgot what one. Conversation someone was having with someone one In Vietnam I think. Was able to record a little bit with my iPhone and asked a friend that is familiar with that part of the world. I mean it could have been from anywhere but he picked up on they way they talked. It was in broken English, and lasted about 4 minutes. I could only make out a few things but I swear it had something to do with P.O.W’s and this was in 2019. It gave us both goose bumps. One side asked if the ‘whites are okay” and a conformation of yes in a very clear voice. They asked if supply’s are okay and if they needed anything. It did not last long and it was a very clear night out. Makes you wonder about things. Edit: I do not have a ham license and don’t ever transmit. Just listen to see what I can pick up. So I don’t know much about upper/lower bands. Just giving information I picked up. Wanting to say it stopped at 294.000 or something around that number.
Interference to aircraft radio is usually caused by poor harmonic suppression from HF radio broadcast stations. BBC Skelton once carried out some maintenance and forgot to replace the correct low pass filters and a few hours later a harmonic from the site transmitting BBC Arabic was reported to be causing interference to VHF aircraft channels. (I know cos I was there!)
Nice video presentations. Tones on VHF/FM BBC radio were transmitted in the past to keep the transmission equipment from registering a break in audio feed after programme close down. As far as I can remember they were just single pulsed tone. Multiple tones were used as engineering test signals. (But at a time when there were no broadcast stations beyond 100MHz, it may be something else...)
Ah fasinating.. look forward to hearing more...love to hear the AM broadcasts from the Police when they oddly used Band II around 100 Mhz I think... bizzare but true
That's what I was thinking, too. It doesn't sound like any kind of data transmission, because there isn't enough variation in the tones, and that's exactly the kind of sound that a variometer produces.
Definitely a model RC glider. One of the members in my model flying club uses the same system on his model glider. Perfectly legal as it complies with the Short Range Devices (SRD) spec, as do many other RC devices on 433MHz to 435MHz. I use a bi-directional frequency hopping system (MAVLINK) in the same frequency allocation.
@@sputniksam I have a similar device in my RC thermal glider, probably a flyaway as it read out 1800 altitude. It creates the tones to indicate lift/sink and reads out preprogrammed info at intervals.
Great video footage of the transmitter towers and those transmissions were interesting. I used to listen to SW and heard very similar sounds to your last clip thanks for sharing.
Wow. Top tier work. One of the best and interesting videos I have ever seen on this app. I have been on the site since 2007 and this is by far one of the best videos I have ever seen. You gave me exactly what I was looking for. Not regurgitated garbage. I know a reverse engineer and hardware junkie who messes with radio stuff and lives on the border of Texas and gets strange stuff regularly. It's very interested. Enjoy my sub. Thank you.
number 5 sounds like the tracking signal that the older soviet satellites used to broadcast. the change in tone was due to frequency shift as the satellite passed overhead. I could be wrong but that is what it sounds like to me.
Last one (musical tones) reminds me of a radiosonde, though in my day they were in low 400MHz part of the spectrum. Very, very slow VFT of temp/pressure/humidity. I think they did winds aloft by radar reflection. it's certainly not VOR, nor ILS Glideslope or Locator
I know you may not believe me but I actually heard a voice on radio telling kids about broccoli being good good for you. That's just cruel. I blame monsters from the 7th dimension
Interesting set, the break in to the 'Pirate BBC' transmission made me think of the WWII plans the Italians allegedly had to break into the BBC World Service frequency and add a 'running commentary' to the news being broadcast. That's a story I'd love to see looked at one day.
I wish I had made a recording of the telemetry transmitter I set up at an FM broadcast station. We had a Moseley TRC-15 remote control system which was originally built for a voice telco link. I modified it for RF link as follows: The commands from the studio to the transmitter were audio tones in the 300 Hz range. I added the subcarrier option boards to put these tones on a 185 kHz subcarrier which could be added into our 946.0 MHz composite stereo link. But the really interesting part was the telemetry. The TRC-15 used a tone between 800 and 1200 Hz to send an analog metering signal back to the studio. 800 Hz was zero scale, 1000 Hz was mid-scale, and 1200 Hz was full scale. We sent this on a 455.02 MHz link. Also, we had a Moseley alarm/status panel, which sent its data using 2100/2300/2500 Hz tones, which was also carried by the 455.02 link. Quite often, the operator would leave to meter set to modulation, which would cause the tone to vary as the meter bounced up and down with the program audio. Add to this the alarm/status, which sounded vaguely like crickets chirping, and it might give a scanner enthusiast a real head scratcher. So far as I know, no one ever mentioned this mysterious sounding signal.
Interesting! I also remember listening to a UA-cam video regarding those so-called numbers stations broadcasting what sounded like an encrypted code. I don’t remember all the details of the video. I will have to look it up again. Old age setting in for me I suppose.
Does anyone else remember the Monday night in the early 90s when late night BBC Radio 5 (in it's first incarnation) got jammed at around 11.30pm, during a show called "Fabulous", presented by Mark Lamarr?
Nice to hear Nigel from the late 1980s talking about the ill fated raid by the DTI Radio Investigation Service. Attending his home, "with Constables", the DTI took so long to find anything incriminating, and Nigel wasted their time to such an extent that the police escort they had brought with them, packed up and went away. After this, the DTI were alone, and unfortunately one Leslie Jones 'fell' down the stairs requiring an ambulance to Kidderminster General Hospital. No charges of any type were forthcoming. Sadly, the DTI were targeting Nigel even though he was being less disruptive than many others, but made no secret of his identity etc.
Was that the dick head that ran the computer firm, more money than sense, used to jam the repeater with recording of his rambling 24/7? I heard he got busted in the morning, they took away all his gear and he was back on in the afternoon, that guy needed a check up from the neck up....
@@j.cheeverloophole9029 No you are talking about George, G1MTT. He was taken to court and charged with 11 offences. The Judge kicked one out as being stupid, he was found guilty of 5 and not guilty of 5, hence the famous remark that he had challenged the DTI to a battle of wits and proved they were only half prepared. One thing that really pissed off the 'old guard' was that well known magazine publisher Radio Society Of Great Britain Limited, published inaccurate and defamatory articles about him. Initially they refused any retraction, but were later served with a court order to divulge the names and addresses of every RSGB "news reader" along with the names and addresses of every BBS that carried the defamatory article so a case could be brought against everyone individually. RSGB offered an out of court settlement, which was negotiated, plus they paid his legal costs, and published a retraction and apology by the same means as before. Initially some BBS operators refused to do this and RSGB received another demand for disclosure of names and addresses, eventually they all complied. It made it into the news media, BBC2 "Radio Night", BBC2 "Arena," and Radio 4 "Fishing In The Ether" and onto "Pick Of The Week". Strangely, all aspects of the charges have subsequently been leagalised by the publication of the Terms & Conditions, and nothing he did is now illegal. Interestingly, OFCOM have ceased chasing and spending any time on the hobby and now officially designate it as a 'recreational activity' and all references to The Amateur Radio Service have been removed. Apart from being a loony, he was a pioneer and realised it was a stupid hobby 20 years before the DTI /OFCOM finally agreed. Still active in the Midlands now. laughingpoliceman.com All true nothing made up!
Brian Jones Leslie George Jones flying down the stairs.. Arrived in a Peugeot and left in a f..king ambulance. And with every flying lesson you get a free frying lesson 😂 And I sent a blank tape to the address is Walter Nash Road in Kidderminster for the various G1MTT recordings, he used to read the address out all the time in the 90s, but never heard back.
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Watched this on my phone and found myself adjusting the phone position when the glider recording started fading :))
Interesting that the last signal is comprised of 12 musical notes spaced evenly apart, except that the ninth note is omitted. What is the significance of that missing frequency / note?? Since it's at the top of the FM band it probably is a remote control for a utility of some sort....turn off your air conditioners?
Some interesting sounds i think there were awards for worked all cop shops, opening up Community repeaters(sub tones) and how many BBC Radio Cars input frequencies jammed along with Car to Headphone links. fond memories of GB3SL and GB3CF listening. Marc in Bletchley Towers G6XEG
@@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266 Being in South London with a XTAL controlled handheld with 145.650 installed and later an ICOM IC2E receiving this repeater poor old GB3WH suffered co Channel repeater abuse from SL at times. squeekies Laughing policeman and full of carriers. The conversations were very amusing at times i did work G4NLB Brian the Hornet a few times on Simplex from Bucks. Happy days.
Oh my god...5.35 into the video😂My mate "Fred Spider" was parked up at the Manningtree tx site in Essex jamming the Pirate BBC Essex broadcast.They were linking from the LV18 on 447 MHz 😂😂73 G7HFS/PA3IKH
Those clips were really interesting. I wish you could’ve gone more in-depth with what was going on and what the outcome was. Really enjoy your content.👌
Would you know, or even have recordings of, a signal I regularly found on the FM dial in the 1980s? If I tuned right to the bottom of the FM broadcast band (ie 87.5 or slightly below) I would regularly hear a quite musical data/telemetry sound, which fascinated me as a kid. Difficult to describe. Seemed to have one long and one short "carrier" tones : deee di deee di deee di deee with bursts of musical "data" tones frequently. I'm not a radio ham so am largely ignorant of these things, and though I've wanted to find out what this was, I wouldn't know where to start looking! Thanks for fascinating video!
Did it sound like this? ua-cam.com/video/hTbhwBCvd_U/v-deo.html That probably was the Eurosignal, as it was known here in Switzerland and the other german speaking countries. There is an article about it in the german wikipedia: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funkrufnetz#Eurosignal (Translation can be found here: translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFunkrufnetz%23Eurosignal)
@@SebJec Yes! In South East England, near the coast. On my parents Philips Music Centre that didn't have much of an aerial. So it surprised me to learn that this signal came from Europe!
@@SebJec Now that I know it's called the Eurosignal, o read a bit about it. It is used in this piece of music by Air. ua-cam.com/video/MofYHilG2ec/v-deo.html That sounds closer to what I remember than the link you suggested, although they are both very similar
Just a quick one for you. Iv been listening on 7055 USB about 21 30 hours in the evenings. It a amateur radio station in the Ukraine giving some grief to the Russians. The date at the moment is 10. 9.21.weath a listen...... Keep the good work up.
The last one also sounds like a dolphin or variometer used on gliders to measure the strength of thermals. Can't be entirely sure but back in my glider BGT days that's sounds familiar. No idea why it would be on a frequency.
The 108.0 tones is more likely a VOR transmission. VHF Omnidirectional Radio Range (VOR) is defined as VHF Omnidirectional Radio Range, an aircraft navigation system operating in the VHF band
If you look up on UA-cam navigational aids VOR you should find the description. The beeping you heard is actually the station identifier in Morse code. Then you may hear a voice. Ours in New Hampshire at dillant Hopkins Airport there are tones, the a voice recording saying "Keene VOR Beep Beep Beeeep Beep in a 1000hz tone.
You should investigate the crap that transmits on the CB radio band between 26500 and 27400 MHz usually on even frequencies like 27300, 27310, 27360, 26800, 26880 etc., thus taking out two CB channels at once die to the offset of 5 kHz. It is blocks of data transmitted for about 4 to 10 seconds with a short pause of a few seconds. It becomes an annoyance every spring to fall over here in Germany. During the same time, either Irish or British religious masses are broadcasted all over the band, preferably between 27000 and 27500 kHz. This isn't fun anymore. It lasts for hours.
The last series of tones on the frequencies mentioned I believe are in the range of directional beacons for aircraft navigation. Never heard tones like thay though. It's usually a 3 letter identifier sent in more code.
@@RingwayManchester hahaha you're welcome. It was actually a piece where he used a scanner to record some phone calls between various people and one caller had a voice that sounded just like that dude at that timestamp.
Yes please, more of this. As a drone flyer too, I always get very nervous around antennas incase of interference etc. Have you ever had and problems like this?
Ringway Manchester Hi Lewis. As Adam stated YM was West Midlands, YF was Staffordshire and YK was West Mercia. Staffs operated a system called Starnet which they shared with Staffs Fire.
We do it every Thursday evening down here in Eastbourne.One of us goes and hides up within a 2Km radius of a set point in Eastbourne and transmits for 30 seconds every 2 minutes and when the "Fox" has been found we all go for our "debrief" in a local pub.👍🍻.We do it on 70cms and also 2mtrs and its great fun.73.Ian.G7HFS
With the equipment they have now it only takes seconds.....even during WWII they had a secret DF'ing box of tricks that got an instant direct heading on a crt tube, 2 or 3 headings and they have you. During the recent Ukranian conflict there were signs on streets telling people to not turn on their mobile phones, if you did a mortar round would be dropping on you within seconds...
OFCOM use a device with GPS so you can do it with one vehicle. They used it on me about 2 years ago, but none of them had bothered to read the Terms & Conditions, they thought the BR68 was still in force. I was easily able to point out that every single thing they complained about was 100% legal now. I got a letter from them about a week later, thanking me for my cooperation. I made a Freedom Of Information request and asked OFCOM what measures they had taken to re-educate their staff after the root and branch fundamental alteration of the rules. They said nothing, no courses, seminars, lectures or any training whatsoever! The people employed to uphold the law were not told of the dramatic changes that changed the whole hobby.
@@brianjonesg8aso403 The DTi / RA / RIS used to have Mondeo's back in the earlier 2000s that all the DF gear was under the head lining inside the vehicle. ua-cam.com/video/s0MzGkGM1VQ/v-deo.html See from 8:50 - Or if you was a self appointed radio policeman, you had a Datong DF'ing kit with 4 antennas on the roof of your car .
That strange tone sequence at 7:15 would have been a satellite position calibration tone for the era, to allow adjustment of position on the spy satellites of the time by firing the thrusters to maintain orbital alignment, so that they would pass the desired part of the earth, they still do that today using data bursts and ground station dishes so as to not have any connection whatsoever to the modern day gps system or it's time clocks, instead using ground based sodium atomic clocks and in satellite atomic clock timebases , they also use machine vision systems these days (2022) and have done so since around 1998 , whereby calibration patterns are painted onto unassuming car park/parking lot surfaces and airport runways which are kind of like big QR codes (the square barcodes that are everywhere now that you scan with your mobile phone camera to get information or taken to a website etc) these calibration marks are scanned for by the satellites as they pass certain areas and are referenced to software tables loaded during uplinking and regular updates, if the ground equipment is destroyed or eliminated (during war etc) these satellites would keep good alignment for about 7 years from new without any input or human interaction and would then de-orbit over a period of 3 to 7 years depending on the orbital position in relation to the equator when the fuel is expended/used up. Today there are missiles launchable from ships and planes and ground launchers that can take out a satellite in space as well as laser systems that can blow a hole in a satellite in orbit (the lasers are extremely expensive to operate and maintain and take many staff to operate and depend on weather being suitable , these ground based lasers are too power hungry and sensitive to work on a ship (they need solid ground) and the work over the years on aircraft based laser systems hit so many technical problems that the few early now long obsolete prototypes were scrapped and lie as museum displays )
A pirate.... hijacked a broadcast, celebrating radio piracy!? Now that’s a Jack Sparrow right there
*”That’s the best radio pirate I’ve ever seen”*
lol
@@DoktrDub So it would seem.
Love the trolling of the BBC. 🤣🤣 "BBC Pirate radio" just sounds so wrong doesn't it? 🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
5:34 when I was 10 I was scanning radios AND SHAT MY SELF SO BADLY when I heard this I ain't so scared now and find some wacky transmissions this brought me back some memories.
I really like all those videos of antennas.
same bud!
Me too.
Right
Used to do lots of scanning back in the late 80's on UHF/VHF and used to leave it scanning frequencies all day whilst i was out at work. It was connected to a voice operated recorder connected to a tape deck which would kick in on a voice signal. Days went by without anything but then one day i came home after work and saw the tape had moved. On playback i got a crystal clear signal of a strong American accent saying "Cigarette calling Radar.....cigarette calling radar". I can't remember the rest but if i can find the tape i will let you know.
Wow that'd be amazing to hear! I wonder what it was?
@@RingwayManchester I was scanning USAF signals intelligence frequencies. It's surprising what you could pick up back then with a scanner radio which cost me just £80 and a £25 discone antenna.
@@Bulletguy07 I don't sippose any of those Freq's of Nature are accessible for todays amature. :(
@@nickdesaint4601 Hi Nick...it was a good few years back - late 80s early 90s and i cant remember any of them. It was a bit like fishing a pool without knowing if any fish were there! Eventually i got a "bite" but the only way to do it is using a voice operated device coupled between scanner radio and cassette recorder so it "kicks in" the tape when an audio signal is picked up.
Bulletguy07 I miss those days.
Used to scare myself daft when I was a kid listening to shortwave beacons, and other such repeating signals.
Nice pictures of Jodrell at the end of the video. I have been up in the dish several times, great experience. Also had the honour to press the button in the control room that turned the dish.
Great video keep them coming.
Cheers
Lynton G4XCQ
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Hey Lynton great to hear from you. I'm very jealous about your jodrell bank experiences! 73 for now
Same, and even just scanning AM airwaves at night. I wonder why we get scared by radio signals?
I used to use my grandpas shortwave receiver as a little girl and thought it was a thing of satan
And now shortwave radio chatter lulls me to sleep, trying to learn Morse code now because it’s so common
Numbers stations were scary as a kid!
That pirate jammer was hilarious, thanks for sharing 😂
Cheers mate!
Lol that pirate jamming the transmitter sounds like "Fred in the shed" putting on a high squeaky voice 🤣🤣
Hahahah!
Or maybe Johnny Smallcock and his vile tasting toffees!
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That's old Squeeky he's been about for years ,back in the 80s in London there was Squeeky clones on UKCB on Ch19 constantly annoying everyone,
even DJ Tony Blackburn who was a avid cber himself made a official complaint about them in which he got the piss taken out him by the Squeekys on the air ,this was years before Fred in the Shed 's Hi Guys , Hi Guys is one of there mates on there nets the Fred and his lot do Squeeky was in a different class ,CLASSIC .
The pitch-shifting altitude transmission at 4:23 reminded me of audio variometers used in sailplanes. In fact, I think that's exactly what it was. Sounds like it had a few telemetry sensors and alternated between them.
My exact thought as well. Higher pitch means climb, lower pitch means decent. So probably an RC glider transmitting.
The last one reminds me of the test tones that used to be sent out by the MOD by landline to the various fallout shelters ensuring the operability of government communications
@timothy frangopulo It does but while the Home Office/Scottish Office police and fire base allocations were at the time occupying 97.6 - 102.1 MHz, the top end of Band II from 104.0 to 108 MHz was allocated on a permitted basis to Land Mobile and was used by the power (gas and electricity) boards and water boards. I'm inclined to think it was probably a telemetry signal for the latter. Unless due to a fault it would not be aeronautical as our host suggested. I don't think there were any military, government agencies or spooks in that band as it could be easily received by many a cheap broadcast radio.. My source is a hard copy of the Revised International Table of Frequency Allocations as published by the Home Office after WARC 1979.
Cheers Tim!
My guess would be radiated emmisions from power lines for that final sample... It sounds similar to the tones used to control tariff switching on consumer power meters. That's all digital now but it used to use a schema similar to DTMF that's used in phone dialling today.
I have a ham radio in my Jeep and used to keep it on scan all the time. It was connected to my head unit with an aux Jack when it would pick up it would over ride the stereo.
I would forget about it. One day the wife and I headed into town and the radio picked up something on Lower or upper side band, I forgot what one. Conversation someone was having with someone one In Vietnam I think. Was able to record a little bit with my iPhone and asked a friend that is familiar with that part of the world. I mean it could have been from anywhere but he picked up on they way they talked. It was in broken English, and lasted about 4 minutes. I could only make out a few things but I swear it had something to do with P.O.W’s and this was in 2019. It gave us both goose bumps. One side asked if the ‘whites are okay” and a conformation of yes in a very clear voice. They asked if supply’s are okay and if they needed anything. It did not last long and it was a very clear night out. Makes you wonder about things.
Edit: I do not have a ham license and don’t ever transmit. Just listen to see what I can pick up. So I don’t know much about upper/lower bands. Just giving information I picked up. Wanting to say it stopped at 294.000 or something around that number.
Interference to aircraft radio is usually caused by poor harmonic suppression from HF radio broadcast stations. BBC Skelton once carried out some maintenance and forgot to replace the correct low pass filters and a few hours later a harmonic from the site transmitting BBC Arabic was reported to be causing interference to VHF aircraft channels. (I know cos I was there!)
Pilot said " Janet" The word Janet is the flight from Vegas to Area 51
Nice video presentations. Tones on VHF/FM BBC radio were transmitted in the past to keep the transmission equipment from registering a break in audio feed after programme close down. As far as I can remember they were just single pulsed tone. Multiple tones were used as engineering test signals. (But at a time when there were no broadcast stations beyond 100MHz, it may be something else...)
Merci beaucoup pour cette magnifique 👍👍 vidéo.
De très belles installation radioélectriques 👍👍👍👍
Fantastic Video Lewis.... One of your best... I'm loving the dronie footage of JB.... 👌👌👌👌👍
Cheers mate!
Ah fasinating.. look forward to hearing more...love to hear the AM broadcasts from the Police when they oddly used Band II around 100 Mhz I think... bizzare but true
Oh yes, their FM right near Radio One.
@@wisteela so it was NFM mode I guess not AM...Hoping somebody made recordings but very unlikely I guess
Cheers mate!
@@digitalmediafan It was definitely AM, around 100 Mhz, but you could still hear what they were saying by simply tuning slightly off the signal.
@@Eon119 Oh yes I remember tuning in on my Dad's FM tuner which I think only went up to 104
Please do more! I love these! You really can't find videos like this other than those crappy click-bait videos
Lots more coming :)
Ooohh yes, definitely more of these please Lewis!
Cheers mate!
I was expecting to hear Fred in the Shed's mate "HI GUYS" ;)
Tactical Pirate.2 Yeah! Me too!
Good point! Let's see if he sends me a clip!
4:36 that’s a glider generating that audio. Maybe his ptt was jammed on because the variometer isn’t connected to the radio (normally)
That's what I was thinking, too. It doesn't sound like any kind of data transmission, because there isn't enough variation in the tones, and that's exactly the kind of sound that a variometer produces.
Cheers mate!
Yep that’s exactly what I thought also, the tone changes with altitude and the tx frequency is in the right band
Definitely a model RC glider. One of the members in my model flying club uses the same system on his model glider. Perfectly legal as it complies with the Short Range Devices (SRD) spec, as do many other RC devices on 433MHz to 435MHz. I use a bi-directional frequency hopping system (MAVLINK) in the same frequency allocation.
@@sputniksam I have a similar device in my RC thermal glider, probably a flyaway as it read out 1800 altitude. It creates the tones to indicate lift/sink and reads out preprogrammed info at intervals.
4:39 it's glider variometer, beeps - climbing, continous sound - decline. Maybe pilot trying stay in thermal flow and sat down to his radio))
Cheers mate!
Great video footage of the transmitter towers and those transmissions were interesting. I used to listen to SW and heard very similar sounds to your last clip thanks for sharing.
Cheers mate!
This is fascinating to me. Love it. Keep them coming.
I was expecting chills when I searched it up and thank goodness I did NOT
Wow. Top tier work. One of the best and interesting videos I have ever seen on this app. I have been on the site since 2007 and this is by far one of the best videos I have ever seen. You gave me exactly what I was looking for. Not regurgitated garbage.
I know a reverse engineer and hardware junkie who messes with radio stuff and lives on the border of Texas and gets strange stuff regularly. It's very interested.
Enjoy my sub. Thank you.
number 5 sounds like the tracking signal that the older soviet satellites used to broadcast. the change in tone was due to frequency shift as the satellite passed overhead. I could be wrong but that is what it sounds like to me.
Good material!!! Thanks for the time and effort to make it!!!
Very interesting indeed, thanks for taking the time to put this together, please do share more when you get the chance!
Really interesting samples there Lewis!
Will have to have a dig through the archives and send you a couple from VK Land!
Cheers Adam look forward to it !
in the Preston area listening to Warton on UHF one afternoon I had Muslim prayers on a loop all afternoon.
The same happens on Manchester's UHF uplink. There's a mosque on there. They have different CTCSS tones so as not to interfere with eachother
Last one (musical tones) reminds me of a radiosonde, though in my day they were in low 400MHz part of the spectrum. Very, very slow VFT of temp/pressure/humidity. I think they did winds aloft by radar reflection. it's certainly not VOR, nor ILS Glideslope or Locator
Thank you for the tidbit, time for me to go fishing
A great video for you to do would be about the Vrillion broadcast in the 70’s. Keep up the amazing videos Lewis!
Best wishes from Stockport!
If your stockport....have you ever experienced anything strange while riverside of the Mersey?
Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪.
Great channel!
You just got yourself a new subscriber 🤖
Cheers mate!
I know you may not believe me but I actually heard a voice on radio telling kids about broccoli being good good for you. That's just cruel. I blame monsters from the 7th dimension
Interesting set, the break in to the 'Pirate BBC' transmission made me think of the WWII plans the Italians allegedly had to break into the BBC World Service frequency and add a 'running commentary' to the news being broadcast. That's a story I'd love to see looked at one day.
very much enjoyed that. Thank you!
I wish I had made a recording of the telemetry transmitter I set up at an FM broadcast station. We had a Moseley TRC-15 remote control system which was originally built for a voice telco link. I modified it for RF link as follows: The commands from the studio to the transmitter were audio tones in the 300 Hz range. I added the subcarrier option boards to put these tones on a 185 kHz subcarrier which could be added into our 946.0 MHz composite stereo link. But the really interesting part was the telemetry. The TRC-15 used a tone between 800 and 1200 Hz to send an analog metering signal back to the studio. 800 Hz was zero scale, 1000 Hz was mid-scale, and 1200 Hz was full scale. We sent this on a 455.02 MHz link. Also, we had a Moseley alarm/status panel, which sent its data using 2100/2300/2500 Hz tones, which was also carried by the 455.02 link. Quite often, the operator would leave to meter set to modulation, which would cause the tone to vary as the meter bounced up and down with the program audio. Add to this the alarm/status, which sounded vaguely like crickets chirping, and it might give a scanner enthusiast a real head scratcher. So far as I know, no one ever mentioned this mysterious sounding signal.
Freddy Cannon Down at palisades Park. Is a song that shares those same tones. Came out back in 1963
Just imagine cruisin in your car with your friends listening to jams but then it cuts to static but you suddenly hear "ehh What's up doc"
Chungus reference??? Big if true.
Hi Lewis , I remember the squeaky voices on Gb3lo pre gb3sl, this video brought back memories. Regards. 73 g8rde
103.5 WSHE She’s Only Rock and Roll 🎸 Miami Florida still rocking even though they went off the air back in 1994
6:10. I feel like doing that to the BBC every day, it's clearly driven him nuts
Interesting Video!! Thanks & '73/N4YSB
very interesting vid lewis that last tone i can remember as a kid i was told it was the ils beacons at the airport
Cheers martin! I'll pass that on.
Interesting! I also remember listening to a UA-cam video regarding those so-called numbers stations broadcasting what sounded like an encrypted code. I don’t remember all the details of the video. I will have to look it up again. Old age setting in for me I suppose.
Cheers mate!
The signal at 4.05 sounds like a model aircraft, you hear this kinda signals often in Germany on 70cm ISM Band. The beep indicates the rise/fall.
More of this! Still trying to find out what that signal on 70cms SSB is around my area. Band is full of them!
Interesting! is it on hack green?
Does anyone else remember the Monday night in the early 90s when late night BBC Radio 5 (in it's first incarnation) got jammed at around 11.30pm, during a show called "Fabulous", presented by Mark Lamarr?
I'd love to hear that!
This was interesting, defo more please :)
Cheers mate!
Nice to hear Nigel from the late 1980s talking about the ill fated raid by the DTI Radio Investigation Service. Attending his home, "with Constables", the DTI took so long to find anything incriminating, and Nigel wasted their time to such an extent that the police escort they had brought with them, packed up and went away. After this, the DTI were alone, and unfortunately one Leslie Jones 'fell' down the stairs requiring an ambulance to Kidderminster General Hospital. No charges of any type were forthcoming.
Sadly, the DTI were targeting Nigel even though he was being less disruptive than many others, but made no secret of his identity etc.
Cheers OM!
Was that the dick head that ran the computer firm, more money than sense, used to jam the repeater with recording of his rambling 24/7?
I heard he got busted in the morning, they took away all his gear and he was back on in the afternoon, that guy needed a check up from the neck up....
@@j.cheeverloophole9029 No you are talking about George, G1MTT. He was taken to court and charged with 11 offences. The Judge kicked one out as being stupid, he was found guilty of 5 and not guilty of 5, hence the famous remark that he had challenged the DTI to a battle of wits and proved they were only half prepared.
One thing that really pissed off the 'old guard' was that well known magazine publisher Radio Society Of Great Britain Limited, published inaccurate and defamatory articles about him. Initially they refused any retraction, but were later served with a court order to divulge the names and addresses of every RSGB "news reader" along with the names and addresses of every BBS that carried the defamatory article so a case could be brought against everyone individually. RSGB offered an out of court settlement, which was negotiated, plus they paid his legal costs, and published a retraction and apology by the same means as before. Initially some BBS operators refused to do this and RSGB received another demand for disclosure of names and addresses, eventually they all complied.
It made it into the news media, BBC2 "Radio Night", BBC2 "Arena," and Radio 4 "Fishing In The Ether" and onto "Pick Of The Week". Strangely, all aspects of the charges have subsequently been leagalised by the publication of the Terms & Conditions, and nothing he did is now illegal. Interestingly, OFCOM have ceased chasing and spending any time on the hobby and now officially designate it as a 'recreational activity' and all references to The Amateur Radio Service have been removed. Apart from being a loony, he was a pioneer and realised it was a stupid hobby 20 years before the DTI /OFCOM finally agreed. Still active in the Midlands now. laughingpoliceman.com
All true nothing made up!
Brian Jones Leslie George Jones flying down the stairs.. Arrived in a Peugeot and left in a f..king ambulance. And with every flying lesson you get a free frying lesson 😂
And I sent a blank tape to the address is Walter Nash Road in Kidderminster for the various G1MTT recordings, he used to read the address out all the time in the 90s, but never heard back.
Watched this on my phone and found myself adjusting the phone position when the glider recording started fading :))
Yeah great video Lewis. Very interesting.
Cheers mate!
70cms main users is the MOD Amateurs are second users.
Do you ever hear WW2 ghost signals from the
other side?
Nice catch chemtrails being sprayed @1:23
Russ Redfern#16 Those are contrails. Only stupid people call them chemtrails.
Yes. Climate change ...Geo Engineering all about the money...they want all the money.
Interesting that the last signal is comprised of 12 musical notes spaced evenly apart, except that the ninth note is omitted. What is the significance of that missing frequency / note?? Since it's at the top of the FM band it probably is a remote control for a utility of some sort....turn off your air conditioners?
It was the "dead man transmission" if it ever stopped the atomic war was probably the most likely result of the end of transmission
Just watched the Vast of Night and got curious about weird radio transmissions 😂
UVB-76 probably one of the most strangest radio signal.
I agree!
A new signal has turned up at 4.77mhz sounds like a alarm going off
@@2j4ez sounds like the Russian "buzzer"
Some interesting sounds i think there were awards for worked all cop shops, opening up Community repeaters(sub tones) and how many BBC Radio Cars input frequencies jammed along with Car to Headphone links.
fond memories of GB3SL and GB3CF listening.
Marc in Bletchley Towers G6XEG
haha very good stuff Marc! Love it
Marc Hampson Yes found memories of GB3WL SL LW and some of that other stuff you mentioned too
@@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266 Being in South London with a XTAL controlled handheld with 145.650 installed and later an ICOM IC2E receiving this repeater poor old GB3WH suffered co Channel repeater abuse from SL at times.
squeekies Laughing policeman and full of carriers.
The conversations were very amusing at times i did work G4NLB Brian the Hornet a few times on Simplex from Bucks.
Happy days.
Oh my god...5.35 into the video😂My mate "Fred Spider" was parked up at the Manningtree tx site in Essex jamming the Pirate BBC Essex broadcast.They were linking from the LV18 on 447 MHz 😂😂73 G7HFS/PA3IKH
Really!? That's funny haha!
I've emailed you Ian!
@@RingwayManchester Hi Lewis I have just replied to your email.73 Ian G7HFS/PA3IKH
Ian Harling Is there a longer version of this ?
@@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266 yes there is.😂I'm on qrz.com if you want to email me.😉73 G7HFS/PA3IKH
Those clips were really interesting. I wish you could’ve gone more in-depth with what was going on and what the outcome was. Really enjoy your content.👌
Cheers Neil I'll bear that in mind for the next one :)
Wow this is interesting
Great video 👍📻
How do you guys get this stuff?
I have a CD player with a radio in it.
A Christian prayer...😁 Whilst high in the sky
"Hail Mary" ... sounds like somebody was crashing.
Would you know, or even have recordings of, a signal I regularly found on the FM dial in the 1980s?
If I tuned right to the bottom of the FM broadcast band (ie 87.5 or slightly below) I would regularly hear a quite musical data/telemetry sound, which fascinated me as a kid.
Difficult to describe. Seemed to have one long and one short "carrier" tones : deee di deee di deee di deee with bursts of musical "data" tones frequently.
I'm not a radio ham so am largely ignorant of these things, and though I've wanted to find out what this was, I wouldn't know where to start looking!
Thanks for fascinating video!
Did it sound like this? ua-cam.com/video/hTbhwBCvd_U/v-deo.html
That probably was the Eurosignal, as it was known here in Switzerland and the other german speaking countries.
There is an article about it in the german wikipedia: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funkrufnetz#Eurosignal (Translation can be found here: translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFunkrufnetz%23Eurosignal)
@@SebJec Yes, that was it! Thank you! I used to like tuning to it and wondered what it was, but haven't heard it in a very long time
Thanks
You received this signal in the UK?
@@SebJec Yes! In South East England, near the coast. On my parents Philips Music Centre that didn't have much of an aerial.
So it surprised me to learn that this signal came from Europe!
@@SebJec Now that I know it's called the Eurosignal, o read a bit about it. It is used in this piece of music by Air. ua-cam.com/video/MofYHilG2ec/v-deo.html
That sounds closer to what I remember than the link you suggested, although they are both very similar
The final (replicated) transmission reminds me of a radiosonde "balloon burst event" transmission .
Sort of a failsafe signal for alerting the controllers and tracking the falling radiosonde?
@@alessioyautja612 yes. Many radiosondes would transmit a certain series of tones when falling.
Just a quick one for you. Iv been listening on 7055 USB about 21 30 hours in the evenings. It a amateur radio station in the Ukraine giving some grief to the Russians. The date at the moment is 10. 9.21.weath a listen...... Keep the good work up.
Any recordings Richard? Ringwaymanchester@mail.com
yes more please very interesting regards bob
Cheers mate!
The last one also sounds like a dolphin or variometer used on gliders to measure the strength of thermals. Can't be entirely sure but back in my glider BGT days that's sounds familiar. No idea why it would be on a frequency.
The 108.0 tones is more likely a VOR transmission. VHF Omnidirectional Radio Range (VOR) is defined as VHF Omnidirectional Radio Range, an aircraft navigation system operating in the VHF band
Hi Scott. Do you know of anywhere else on youtube or the internet that I could hear this as a comparison? thanks.
If you look up on UA-cam navigational aids VOR you should find the description. The beeping you heard is actually the station identifier in Morse code. Then you may hear a voice. Ours in New Hampshire at dillant Hopkins Airport there are tones, the a voice recording saying "Keene VOR Beep Beep Beeeep Beep in a 1000hz tone.
Definately not VOR. They are simply morse signals.
You should investigate the crap that transmits on the CB radio band between 26500 and 27400 MHz usually on even frequencies like 27300, 27310, 27360, 26800, 26880 etc., thus taking out two CB channels at once die to the offset of 5 kHz.
It is blocks of data transmitted for about 4 to 10 seconds with a short pause of a few seconds.
It becomes an annoyance every spring to fall over here in Germany.
During the same time, either Irish or British religious masses are broadcasted all over the band, preferably between 27000 and 27500 kHz.
This isn't fun anymore. It lasts for hours.
Sounds to me like someone playing with a piano keyboard set to the voice stop piccolo with is a octave higher than a flute.
I heard the one on 434.275 sounded like barometric info from a weather balloon
time to get the baofeng
I don't think keying a repeater Is that big of a deal? Just don't get caught. Too pretty healthy fine imprisonment to
Have any of you built project moses
My ears!
W-6-XRL4 this is W-6-XRL4 who are you?
Cheers Lewis for the nod. Hope you're feeling better too? 73
Cheers mate! Much better!
📡🔊👀 i 👂 odd noises
Excellent
Cheers mate!
Strange....But true..
The last series of tones on the frequencies mentioned I believe are in the range of directional beacons for aircraft navigation.
Never heard tones like thay though. It's usually a 3 letter identifier sent in more code.
Iam a ham and a vivid sw listener this is weard and crazy
More more more ! Please
Cheers mate!
that transmission at 2:22 reminds me of an audio piece by Robin Rimbaud.
Thanks alot mate, you got me watching Robin Rimbaud stuff for about 5 hours! Haha!
@@RingwayManchester hahaha you're welcome. It was actually a piece where he used a scanner to record some phone calls between various people and one caller had a voice that sounded just like that dude at that timestamp.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 Yeah amazing stuff! Look at his channel for South bank show part 1 and 2. amazing stuff!
Yes please, more of this. As a drone flyer too, I always get very nervous around antennas incase of interference etc. Have you ever had and problems like this?
Cheers mate! No never had any issues.
YM is West Midlands Police 🚓🚓
Cheers mate!
Ringway Manchester
Hi Lewis. As Adam stated YM was West Midlands, YF was Staffordshire and YK was West Mercia. Staffs operated a system called Starnet which they shared with Staffs Fire.
Very interesting!
dont think the last one was telemetry . never heard any telemetry signal like that. my guess is a transmitter alignment test.
Great video very interesting
Cheers mate!
What happened to Fox Hunting? Easy to triangulate, they give enough time
We do it every Thursday evening down here in Eastbourne.One of us goes and hides up within a 2Km radius of a set point in Eastbourne and transmits for 30 seconds every 2 minutes and when the "Fox" has been found we all go for our "debrief" in a local pub.👍🍻.We do it on 70cms and also 2mtrs and its great fun.73.Ian.G7HFS
It still goes on. I've done a few now and came close to winning behind the fox both times! It's very easy if you know what you're doing.
With the equipment they have now it only takes seconds.....even during WWII they had a secret DF'ing box of tricks that got an instant direct heading on a crt tube, 2 or 3 headings and they have you.
During the recent Ukranian conflict there were signs on streets telling people to not turn on their mobile phones, if you did a mortar round would be dropping on you within seconds...
OFCOM use a device with GPS so you can do it with one vehicle. They used it on me about 2 years ago, but none of them had bothered to read the Terms & Conditions, they thought the BR68 was still in force. I was easily able to point out that every single thing they complained about was 100% legal now. I got a letter from them about a week later, thanking me for my cooperation. I made a Freedom Of Information request and asked OFCOM what measures they had taken to re-educate their staff after the root and branch fundamental alteration of the rules. They said nothing, no courses, seminars, lectures or any training whatsoever! The people employed to uphold the law were not told of the dramatic changes that changed the whole hobby.
@@brianjonesg8aso403 The DTi / RA / RIS used to have Mondeo's back in the earlier 2000s that all the DF gear was under the head lining inside the vehicle. ua-cam.com/video/s0MzGkGM1VQ/v-deo.html See from 8:50 - Or if you was a self appointed radio policeman, you had a Datong DF'ing kit with 4 antennas on the roof of your car .
Great video. How did that guy take over the FM radio station?
Parked very close to the uplink transmitter and keyed up on UHF
That strange tone sequence at 7:15 would have been a satellite position calibration tone for the era, to allow adjustment of position on the spy satellites of the time by firing the thrusters to maintain orbital alignment, so that they would pass the desired part of the earth, they still do that today using data bursts and ground station dishes so as to not have any connection whatsoever to the modern day gps system or it's time clocks, instead using ground based sodium atomic clocks and in satellite atomic clock timebases , they also use machine vision systems these days (2022) and have done so since around 1998 , whereby calibration patterns are painted onto unassuming car park/parking lot surfaces and airport runways which are kind of like big QR codes (the square barcodes that are everywhere now that you scan with your mobile phone camera to get information or taken to a website etc) these calibration marks are scanned for by the satellites as they pass certain areas and are referenced to software tables loaded during uplinking and regular updates, if the ground equipment is destroyed or eliminated (during war etc) these satellites would keep good alignment for about 7 years from new without any input or human interaction and would then de-orbit over a period of 3 to 7 years depending on the orbital position in relation to the equator when the fuel is expended/used up.
Today there are missiles launchable from ships and planes and ground launchers that can take out a satellite in space as well as laser systems that can blow a hole in a satellite in orbit (the lasers are extremely expensive to operate and maintain and take many staff to operate and depend on weather being suitable , these ground based lasers are too power hungry and sensitive to work on a ship (they need solid ground) and the work over the years on aircraft based laser systems hit so many technical problems that the few early now long obsolete prototypes were scrapped and lie as museum displays )
Uhhhnn....I'm calling BS on this.
Very interesting recording thank you for sharing.
Cheers mate!
sounds like 3.860 Mhz on the lower side band in the US
oh hi i have a creepy radio station on sputnick1 his radio station number is here : 10002.20 and turn it on AMsync
4:40 Clangers ????