It just goes to show that internet trolls etc. are not new at all, the same sort of behaviour has been in amateur radio long before the internet. Good insight.
This just reminds me of cb radio in the 70s-80s-90s. It's what drove me away and I only operated skip on 27,555mhz. I didn't have an amateur license back then but many people encouraged me to obtain my license. From the account of this video, getting an amateur license wouldn't have been a step up but more of a lateral move. I did finally get my license a year ago. I needed a challenge over the great virus lock down and decided to obtain my license. I haven't heard much on my local repeater that is three blocks away. But I listen. No anti-repeater types in these parts. The whole concept of anti-repeater thought process makes no sense to me. Keep up the videos. They're very interesting.
I've heard of (not actually seen in real time) events like this on the internet, including someone hanging themself in video chat while being egged on by the rest of the chatroom (until they actually do see him hangin' out) and someone who livestreamed his suicide by as many drugs as possible, once again, being egged on by the crowd, because substance abuse.
@@GeoNeilUK that's actually quite rife online unfortunately 😔 these chatros need monitoring a lot more closely, especially with all these Beasts about nowadays praying on vulnerable children 🤬
Brings back memories. Was in range of SL when I lived in Buckinghamshire. I was 40 years younger so didn't have the same impact it would now. But it was interesting, laughing policeman etc. The other point of course is that 2m was full, many evenings you couldn't find a clear frequency.
these videos are very interesting, here in Melbourne Australia our UHF repeaters are severely abused, UHF in the city is next to impossible to use without jamming or abuse of some kind. people who are serious about CB radio here tend to use 27mhz which most people don't use anymore.
"WAAAAaaaaarlo Waaaaaaarrlllo Am i Getting in" Ah the memories of GB3SL - Yes I was around then. It may have been abuse, some of the tales are exaggerated, but it was always able to raise a laugh from time to time. On the BBC main transmitter mast, its signal footprint was enormous and a tempting target. The road by the tower, crystal palace parade, was often crowed with users both legal and not legal because if you were not there you were not getting in without a lot of directional ERP, and you always had to synchronously monitor the output to see if you were getting in. Happy memories, it was a major source of entertainment in the days of 4 TV channels (most of which disappeared when your power amp kicked in) G6MJT
Some of that kind of behavior goes on a local repeater every once in a while. From kerchunks, keying down on someone while they're talking and people getting on it without a license. The bad thing is that the FCC won't do anything about it, unless there's a bunch of complaints.
Oh fun days having a 6 Ch XTAL radio with GB3SL as one of them when i was down in London always took it with me. In the late 80's when i moved to a tower block in Bletchley i could hear all the London & Surrey repeaters on VHF & UHF. Another good video Lewis Marc In Bletchley G6XEG
Speaking of bad behaviour, I was shocked by the behaviour of the repeaters in Los Angeles... abuse, swearing, music playing... I thought I was on CB radio
Good grief! If there has ever been anything like that going on in the states, I certainly haven't been aware of it. I was active on 2 meter repeaters back in the 70's in Dallas and central Texas.... Just recently became active in radio again, and never encountered anything close to the insanity described in this video! The most unusual radio traffic I've heard has been on 11 meters, which is generally limited to people just being goofy or silly, almost never anything nefarious or intentionally harmful. Anyway... Yikes!
This is one of the reasons why i don't want an radio amateur license...also here in Italy when someone talk on a repeater very often after few minutes it's jammed : (
Great production Lewis... I've been licensed since 2001 and haven't heard of anything like the "anti-repeater" activities you've covered today and last year. Rather the opposite, where the club officers/repeater operators would stroke their egos & actively blacklist operators who didn't join their club(s) or pay verbal homage over the air. I know of one instance where a legitimate call for assistance was ignored. That's why I have a few public safety agencies (Fire, Public Works, Coast Guard) in my radios. I find it bizarre that some operators were so violently against repeaters... It's not like they were being forced to use them. The UK operators I've encountered here and on the echolink repeater when it was on the air were some of the friendliest and unpretentious radio types I've come across, compared to many Americans who are real jerks. There's even a few "political" radio groups floating around. Keep up the good work !
Hello again. Yes, i was there from about 86 on through to 94. Made many wonderful friends driving around London, a couple of black cab drivers, one of whom helped me out when I ran out of diesil, and a chap called Gordon who let me live in his brothers apartment for a while. I'll never understand these people who just want to make the world burn.
GB3SL was one of the few repeaters I could reach with my FT290 back in 1982 and it was virtually useless due to the squeakies. I also had that RSGB repeater data card!
The amateur mentioned should have been G8TCO,home location of Eltham London SE9. His name was Mr Fred Kealing and a well known unlicensed radio operator hunter. I was very active on GB3 SL at the time before I got my licence in the early 1980s and guilty of jamming the repeater with music and spurious comments. Mr Kealing and a number of other licensed operators would sit on the repeater and effectively jam it with high power from their home QTH and not allow any one other than their friends to use the repeater. I used to use 145.400 (S16) for a talk group of local licensed and unlicensed guys but when Mr Kealing and his gang started to interfere with our frequency and war ensued and that is when many acts of domestic terror were acted. I have many hours of GB3SL interference on audio tapes and will try and find them in my storage container. Chris G1 I I N
Heard some of those recordings online between TCO, NLB and a few others who’s callsigns escape me. When he said G3TCO I thought he meant 8TCO. Sure there was a 3TCO somewhere too
@@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266 yes Fred was G8TCO, had a few civilised chats with him but maybe that was because he knew I worked for Ofcom at the time. Funnily enough I only found out who Idi was about 30 years later...
@@g0fvt Wonder who that was then ? Think the ramblings of Idi Armin were just before my time. I remember Norman G6ELB coming up all the time saying “ I’ve just woken up and someone has stolen my (insert what ever that’s been stolen). Chow
@@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266 in the old words of GB3SL "I cannot reveal my sources" , and yes the first time Norman claimed to have stuff stolen a lot of people wanted to help. Someone did do a wicked impression of him later on, painfully funny. Claiming to be an ex P.O.W was extreme stolen valour too.....
I have nothing to do with radio as well I just like knowing what’s going on From watching his videos I now own two walkie-talkies only pay £28 from Amazon as well I love them
@@elliswatkins812 I think one of the reasons why I like to watch his videos is that it is something I know little about. There are lots of little worlds out there. It is nice to have a look about. :)
I have recent memories of living in Crystal Palace right next to the park.. Would have been fab to have passed my foundation those days as the view from there was amazing!
Although I was licenced in 1984, I had been a keen listener since the late 60's and I well recall the coming of the first wave of repeaters. Here in the NW of England I recall GB3MP (moel y parc) coming on in the mid 70's. It didn't take long for the squeakers, rustlers and 'laughing policemen' to turn up and in the 80's the box seemed to be off more often than it was on. The other NW repeaters got their share too, HH, RF and MN if I recall correctly. Some of the language was atrocious and I gave up listening.
Great days. There was a big meet up most weeks at the Wheatsheaf in Banstead and me and my mates used to drive up there. Many will disagree but IMHO, theses were some of the golden days of amateur radio. Pre cellular, the bands were full of people and unlike today, many of them were in the trade or very knowledgable about radio. No boring discussions about the traffic, or endless waffle about codeplugs by clueless people who can't tell the difference between a bad signal into a repeater, or a weak signal from the repeater. Yes there was agro on the repeaters , but thats life, and for myself any many others it very entertaining. Pre cellular, amateur radio was quite cool. I used to chat with my mates and we would meet up in pubs with HH's on the table talking other in.. The police would sometimes pull you over as they thought you were operating CB. No 'working the world ' on DMR or other IP linked modes. There were lots of people pirating, people would pick an unused callsign from the callbook, they often pirated until they did their ticket. The company I worked for would pretty much employ you as an engineer on the strength of an amateur radio licence
Yep, loved those Tuesday nights at my local ! Grandad taking centre stage, he setup a repeater from his qth at Christmas one year I think GB3XMAS ! Walking home from the Wheatsheaf using my TR2300 talking on S16 to all the locals, ehem... then I got my licence G8XDD
Some of the best comedy I have ever heard was on GB3SL. It was a complete madhouse. I think we had 3 or maybe 4 channels on TV at the time so SL was channel 5. I remember Fred, G8TCO and Clive ? Forgot his call-sign. AKA the Donkey Jacket brigade. Anybody old enough to remember the 'Shut your rabbit a minute' sketch? Then Brian who was always up to something? Plus, the bugs concealed in traffic lights (GB3NL was the target) which took weeks to find. Halcyon days.
I have great memories of SL, although I lived nearly a 100 miles away in Gloucestershire due to its great site I often heard it. It could be fairly hilarious to fairly awful what went on. There were stories of amateurs using several hundred Watts to multiple beams just to get over the jammers. I also remember the guy who jammed MH, he's still at it occasionally. BTW did you know there was a song written about SL? Called 'The ballad of GB33SL' quite a good song actually
G3TCO's death gave birth to a trope... here in the States, that trope is a prudish person hearing swear words on the air and immediately going into cardiac arrest.
Used to live fairly close to SL. Always something going on there and also on WL with the likes of G4NLB (SK) G6WYC(SK) G1UPU, G6YOY, G4KWB, Billy Ball, Fred the Gardener G1GZL, and Norman G6ELB(SK). GB3HL UHF repeater cosited with WL didn’t have half the jamming etc. GB3LW on the London Weekend Television building on The Southbank was just full of black cab drivers. Also had stations running listen through (using another radio listening to the output, slightly away from the transmitting antenna so they could hear if they were being jammed by monitoring their own signal). And then there was the two rig trick 🤣
@@captainradio1 Doubt it. I was a listener for a long time. Had a callsign “out of the hat” from Granddad at one stage before getting licensed. Harry G3SBV didn’t live too far from my QTH.
@@cliffbarrimore Rod G7BZV who went to be MOHOG aka the Vicar, think he has something to do with a Whitehall dept. Barry G0BKD. Mick in Putney (horses collar).
I’m really puzzled by these Repeater shenanigans. What was actually at stake, Money? Reputations? Free Beer? I’m struggling to understand what caused such vitriol.
Some nice old radios there mate. I bought a car load of stornafone 4000 hand helds from a bloke down your way in the 90,s nice sounding thing but the bleep as u power it up is more than anoying lol.
The only place I know here in the states where morons abuse repeaters are in New York City where I live in Maryland which is 200 miles south of NY. The repeaters here are pretty much quiet. I use the few GMRS repeaters we have here in Maryland.
I remember a lot of abuse in the 70s on GB3MP. A lot of graphic stuff that went on for hours. People pirating the callings of Silent Keys! Also when we had a lift on 2 we got all the squawking on CF and BM. Come on down and do the CF rap cos jammin CF is where its at! I remember hearing "Squeaky in Birmingham" one of the LPWS fraternity I think. Then locally " Bellringer" who talked a lot about the Stretford area of Manchester on MN and MR
G3TCO? I remember Fred G8TCO on SL. Always good for a laugh SL. I remember one guy saying 'I'm going to come round there and bang on your front door, and when you open it I'm going to keep on banging'. What was the callsign of the suicide?
@@g0fvt As Rex, G4JUJ would say... blimey. As you say, sad case indeed. I remember listening to WL and hearing G4JUJ, G4SAD and G8RSD. There were probably more regulars but I can't recall their callsigns.JUJ and SAD were quite amusing.
@@stevemumbling7720, yes all familiar callsigns. Gerald (G8RSD) was famous for having a 13 hour non-stop over on GB3WL, he passed away a long time ago. Rex moved away a long time ago and has apparently given up radio entirely. It all looks bad in writing but it was often damn funny in the day. I remember saying to Rex "I am thinking of buying a Hillman Super Minx" knowing he would rage about them for ages, nearly 2 hours... result
@@g0fvt The trigger for Gerald to go into a huge monolgue was to say he killed his mother if I recall correctly. So what's on the London repeaters these days? SL, WL, NL and EL were always good for a laugh. I haven't lived in the UK for many years. Here in Oz the 2m repeaters sound like Top Band.
What is the purpose of this sistematic repeaters jamming, some movement, too many sick individuals or something other? After all repeater service is open for everyone with radio with or without license so why you need to jamming something what you can use for free =\
OK, as a founder member of the anti repeater group, (about 5 people back in the day, but became over 50 active members)) I think I have a right to comment. Most of this is simply wrong. GB3LO was indeed hammered badly, because it was never wanted, it morphed into GB3SL, and it simply got 'worse' - but all that is irrelevant ! The fact is that history speaks. Where are the repeaters now? Where is the need / desire? GONE ! so, on behalf of Spiney Norman, Supercrud, Radio Clitoral Stimulator, Sexy Samantha, Malcolm Muggeridge, all the rest, the whole damn lot !!! WE WON. Discuss, and just live with it. Sorry UKFM group, you lost, live with it. Did anyone die? Nah, not because of us, but maybe, because they were too gushing as to the non-existent advantages of the stupid communications they evangelised about. End of the day? we're still about, are they? Happiest time of my life, bar none. Regrets? Je nest RIEN !
I just heard a station calling CQ on S20. Looked them up on QRZ and low and behold it’s the guy who had his magmount stolen - G8MWK and also an ex member of the ARG ! 🤣🤣🤣
It just goes to show that internet trolls etc. are not new at all, the same sort of behaviour has been in amateur radio long before the internet. Good insight.
It even happened with native americans, when others were communicating by using smoke signals, they'd light a forestfire to jam the signals.
This just reminds me of cb radio in the 70s-80s-90s. It's what drove me away and I only operated skip on 27,555mhz. I didn't have an amateur license back then but many people encouraged me to obtain my license. From the account of this video, getting an amateur license wouldn't have been a step up but more of a lateral move. I did finally get my license a year ago. I needed a challenge over the great virus lock down and decided to obtain my license. I haven't heard much on my local repeater that is three blocks away. But I listen. No anti-repeater types in these parts. The whole concept of anti-repeater thought process makes no sense to me. Keep up the videos. They're very interesting.
73 from 2-DA-082
Ham Radio really was an early (if not the original) social network, complete with trolls.
And I thought some of today's people can be harsh. Especially when someone dies. Great video Lewis, thank you.
I've heard of (not actually seen in real time) events like this on the internet, including someone hanging themself in video chat while being egged on by the rest of the chatroom (until they actually do see him hangin' out) and someone who livestreamed his suicide by as many drugs as possible, once again, being egged on by the crowd, because substance abuse.
@@GeoNeilUK that's actually quite rife online unfortunately 😔 these chatros need monitoring a lot more closely, especially with all these Beasts about nowadays praying on vulnerable children 🤬
Brings back memories. Was in range of SL when I lived in Buckinghamshire. I was 40 years younger so didn't have the same impact it would now. But it was interesting, laughing policeman etc. The other point of course is that 2m was full, many evenings you couldn't find a clear frequency.
these videos are very interesting, here in Melbourne Australia our UHF repeaters are severely abused, UHF in the city is next to impossible to use without jamming or abuse of some kind. people who are serious about CB radio here tend to use 27mhz which most people don't use anymore.
Meet you on 27.555 soon
dont even get started on ch 40 uhf lol
@Fox Hunter sounds nice, way better than dead empty and silent repeaters.
"WAAAAaaaaarlo Waaaaaaarrlllo Am i Getting in" Ah the memories of GB3SL - Yes I was around then. It may have been abuse, some of the tales are exaggerated, but it was always able to raise a laugh from time to time. On the BBC main transmitter mast, its signal footprint was enormous and a tempting target. The road by the tower, crystal palace parade, was often crowed with users both legal and not legal because if you were not there you were not getting in without a lot of directional ERP, and you always had to synchronously monitor the output to see if you were getting in.
Happy memories, it was a major source of entertainment in the days of 4 TV channels (most of which disappeared when your power amp kicked in)
G6MJT
Waraaarlo , am I getting in? Followed by lots of blowing into the microphone along with you’re just not (blow into the mic) strong enough
@@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266 Yes exacly Dinsdale
To be honest, I don't like repeaters either. That's why I divorced my wife.
😂😂😂 Women just won't let it lie ! 😂
ahahhaah oh man i feel you
I used to love listening to WL at night when i was a kid
Some of that kind of behavior goes on a local repeater every once in a while. From kerchunks, keying down on someone while they're talking and people getting on it without a license. The bad thing is that the FCC won't do anything about it, unless there's a bunch of complaints.
I have never heard of such abuse of a repeater. How horrible! 😢
you should have heard my repeater from about 2007 to 2015
Oh fun days having a 6 Ch XTAL radio with GB3SL as one of them when i was down in London always took it with me.
In the late 80's when i moved to a tower block in Bletchley i could hear all the London & Surrey repeaters on VHF & UHF.
Another good video Lewis
Marc In Bletchley G6XEG
This one showed back up on my feed. Thanks Lewis, very interesting!
Speaking of bad behaviour, I was shocked by the behaviour of the repeaters in Los Angeles... abuse, swearing, music playing... I thought I was on CB radio
If you ever fancy sending me recordings feel free
@@RingwayManchester I would but im Australian... Last time I went I took my baofeng :)
@@RingwayManchester
This may give you some idea!
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Good grief! If there has ever been anything like that going on in the states, I certainly haven't been aware of it. I was active on 2 meter repeaters back in the 70's in Dallas and central Texas.... Just recently became active in radio again, and never encountered anything close to the insanity described in this video! The most unusual radio traffic I've heard has been on 11 meters, which is generally limited to people just being goofy or silly, almost never anything nefarious or intentionally harmful. Anyway... Yikes!
Amazing content. So much history and knowledge. 73
Lewis.. Love the slide show of all the vintage radios.
This is one of the reasons why i don't want an radio amateur license...also here in Italy when someone talk on a repeater very often after few minutes it's jammed : (
Great production Lewis... I've been licensed since 2001 and haven't heard of anything like the "anti-repeater" activities you've covered today and last year. Rather the opposite, where the club officers/repeater operators would stroke their egos & actively blacklist operators who didn't join their club(s) or pay verbal homage over the air. I know of one instance where a legitimate call for assistance was ignored. That's why I have a few public safety agencies (Fire, Public Works, Coast Guard) in my radios. I find it bizarre that some operators were so violently against repeaters... It's not like they were being forced to use them. The UK operators I've encountered here and on the echolink repeater when it was on the air were some of the friendliest and unpretentious radio types I've come across, compared to many Americans who are real jerks. There's even a few "political" radio groups floating around. Keep up the good work !
Another great video Lewis. I used to live at Crystal Palace in those days. I remember it well!
well done sir not suprised theres always a few unhinged queenie types in all hobbys.thats exhausted me going for a pint....
Hello again. Yes, i was there from about 86 on through to 94. Made many wonderful friends driving around London, a couple of black cab drivers, one of whom helped me out when I ran out of diesil, and a chap called Gordon who let me live in his brothers apartment for a while. I'll never understand these people who just want to make the world burn.
GB3SL was one of the few repeaters I could reach with my FT290 back in 1982 and it was virtually useless due to the squeakies. I also had that RSGB repeater data card!
The amateur mentioned should have been G8TCO,home location of Eltham London SE9. His name was Mr Fred Kealing and a well known unlicensed radio operator hunter. I was very active on GB3 SL at the time before I got my licence in the early 1980s and guilty of jamming the repeater with music and spurious comments. Mr Kealing and a number of other licensed operators would sit on the repeater and effectively jam it with high power from their home QTH and not allow any one other than their friends to use the repeater. I used to use 145.400 (S16) for a talk group of local licensed and unlicensed guys but when Mr Kealing and his gang started to interfere with our frequency and war ensued and that is when many acts of domestic terror were acted. I have many hours of GB3SL interference on audio tapes and will try and find them in my storage container. Chris G1 I I N
Cheers Chris. Wow I’d love to hear the audio!
Heard some of those recordings online between TCO, NLB and a few others who’s callsigns escape me. When he said G3TCO I thought he meant 8TCO. Sure there was a 3TCO somewhere too
@@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266 yes Fred was G8TCO, had a few civilised chats with him but maybe that was because he knew I worked for Ofcom at the time. Funnily enough I only found out who Idi was about 30 years later...
@@g0fvt Wonder who that was then ? Think the ramblings of Idi Armin were just before my time. I remember Norman G6ELB coming up all the time saying “ I’ve just woken up and someone has stolen my (insert what ever that’s been stolen). Chow
@@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266 in the old words of GB3SL "I cannot reveal my sources" , and yes the first time Norman claimed to have stuff stolen a lot of people wanted to help. Someone did do a wicked impression of him later on, painfully funny. Claiming to be an ex P.O.W was extreme stolen valour too.....
I find this stuff interesting and I like it
I have nothing to do with radio and I find them fascinating. I think it must be fumes from soldering stuff driving them nuts!
I have nothing to do with radio as well I just like knowing what’s going on
From watching his videos I now own two walkie-talkies only pay £28 from Amazon as well I love them
@@elliswatkins812 I think one of the reasons why I like to watch his videos is that it is something I know little about. There are lots of little worlds out there. It is nice to have a look about. :)
These tails of jamming fascinate me.
I have recent memories of living in Crystal Palace right next to the park.. Would have been fab to have passed my foundation those days as the view from there was amazing!
Although I was licenced in 1984, I had been a keen listener since the late 60's and I well recall the coming of the first wave of repeaters. Here in the NW of England I recall GB3MP (moel y parc) coming on in the mid 70's. It didn't take long for the squeakers, rustlers and 'laughing policemen' to turn up and in the 80's the box seemed to be off more often than it was on. The other NW repeaters got their share too, HH, RF and MN if I recall correctly. Some of the language was atrocious and I gave up listening.
Great days. There was a big meet up most weeks at the Wheatsheaf in Banstead and me and my mates used to drive up there. Many will disagree but IMHO, theses were some of the golden days of amateur radio. Pre cellular, the bands were full of people and unlike today, many of them were in the trade or very knowledgable about radio. No boring discussions about the traffic, or endless waffle about codeplugs by clueless people who can't tell the difference between a bad signal into a repeater, or a weak signal from the repeater. Yes there was agro on the repeaters , but thats life, and for myself any many others it very entertaining. Pre cellular, amateur radio was quite cool. I used to chat with my mates and we would meet up in pubs with HH's on the table talking other in.. The police would sometimes pull you over as they thought you were operating CB. No 'working the world ' on DMR or other IP linked modes. There were lots of people pirating, people would pick an unused callsign from the callbook, they often pirated until they did their ticket. The company I worked for would pretty much employ you as an engineer on the strength of an amateur radio licence
Tuesday nights up at the Wheatsheaf?
@@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266 Yes, took us all night to get there from Wembley. Pre nav, in a convoy of cars. Did you go ?
Yep, loved those Tuesday nights at my local ! Grandad taking centre stage, he setup a repeater from his qth at Christmas one year I think GB3XMAS ! Walking home from the Wheatsheaf using my TR2300 talking on S16 to all the locals, ehem... then I got my licence G8XDD
SL even had its own song written for it.
You hear that and more on The Laughing policeman’s wireless society page.
Posted a link below in a previous comment
Thanks Lewis
Some of the best comedy I have ever heard was on GB3SL. It was a complete madhouse. I think we had 3 or maybe 4 channels on TV at the time so SL was channel 5. I remember Fred, G8TCO and Clive ? Forgot his call-sign. AKA the Donkey Jacket brigade. Anybody old enough to remember the 'Shut your rabbit a minute' sketch? Then Brian who was always up to something? Plus, the bugs concealed in traffic lights (GB3NL was the target) which took weeks to find. Halcyon days.
I have great memories of SL, although I lived nearly a 100 miles away in Gloucestershire due to its great site I often heard it. It could be fairly hilarious to fairly awful what went on. There were stories of amateurs using several hundred Watts to multiple beams just to get over the jammers. I also remember the guy who jammed MH, he's still at it occasionally. BTW did you know there was a song written about SL? Called 'The ballad of GB33SL' quite a good song actually
G3TCO's death gave birth to a trope... here in the States, that trope is a prudish person hearing swear words on the air and immediately going into cardiac arrest.
Used to live fairly close to SL. Always something going on there and also on WL with the likes of G4NLB (SK) G6WYC(SK) G1UPU, G6YOY, G4KWB, Billy Ball, Fred the Gardener G1GZL, and Norman G6ELB(SK). GB3HL UHF repeater cosited with WL didn’t have half the jamming etc. GB3LW on the London Weekend Television building on The Southbank was just full of black cab drivers. Also had stations running listen through (using another radio listening to the output, slightly away from the transmitting antenna so they could hear if they were being jammed by monitoring their own signal). And then there was the two rig trick 🤣
I wonder if I know you ? G 1 I I N or better known as crippin
@@captainradio1 Doubt it. I was a listener for a long time. Had a callsign “out of the hat” from Granddad at one stage before getting licensed. Harry G3SBV didn’t live too far from my QTH.
wow those call signs bring back memories of WL
@@cliffbarrimore Rod G7BZV who went to be MOHOG aka the Vicar, think he has something to do with a Whitehall dept. Barry G0BKD. Mick in Putney (horses collar).
Another great video mate 👍🏻👏🏻
I’m really puzzled by these Repeater shenanigans. What was actually at stake, Money? Reputations? Free Beer? I’m struggling to understand what caused such vitriol.
As a friend of mine in college used to say, "Some people, you know, they just will not do."
Hilarious goings on, in a gallows humour sort of a way, great vid as usual.
Sounds lke GB3LO was the UK’s counterpart to Los Angeles’ infamous AS6TK repeater on 147.435.
Woo hoo another post!!!
Some nice old radios there mate. I bought a car load of stornafone 4000 hand helds from a bloke down your way in the 90,s nice sounding thing but the bleep as u power it up is more than anoying lol.
Lewis is a good story teller.
Damn, this is Juicy!
And sad too... Very great storytelling as usual my friend.
Great video. Can I ask which model is the radio in the titlescreen thumbnail? Fine looking piece of kit. Cheers.
Thanks Manuel it’s the Icom ic -u3
Sounds a lot like the infamous 435 repeater in Los Angeles California in the states. You can listen to a live stream and see what I mean.
Oh, my... sounds a lot like the current situation in the ham space :))
Very strong in Ealing.
End stop on the input
Was it G8RSD
G8MWK has an interesting QRZ page. Just heard him on S20 calling CQ 🤣 and G4DGK John Bolton 🤣
wow, things get serious when someone makes an explosive device to a car about a repeater and suicide! Very interesting video.👍
Which HTs are visible at 0m:28s ?
Icom IC-u4E [micro 4E] from 1987!
The only place I know here in the states where morons abuse repeaters are in New York City where I live in Maryland which is 200 miles south of NY. The repeaters here are pretty much quiet. I use the few GMRS repeaters we have here in Maryland.
I remember a lot of abuse in the 70s on GB3MP. A lot of graphic stuff that went on for hours. People pirating the callings of Silent Keys! Also when we had a lift on 2 we got all the squawking on CF and BM. Come on down and do the CF rap cos jammin CF is where its at! I remember hearing "Squeaky in Birmingham" one of the LPWS fraternity I think. Then locally " Bellringer" who talked a lot about the Stretford area of Manchester on MN and MR
"Anti-Repeater Group"?!?! Sounds wonderful! Where's the link???? LOL
ruclips.net/video/GxaBu9ALNw8/видео.html
What make of radio is that at 0:36 buddy? Great video by the way.
Icom ic-u3 mate cheers!
Thx man
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G3TCO? I remember Fred G8TCO on SL. Always good for a laugh SL. I remember one guy saying 'I'm going to come round there and bang on your front door, and when you open it I'm going to keep on banging'. What was the callsign of the suicide?
🤣🤣🤣 There was also some polish guy who lived in a caravan who said “Come around now Mr Bolton, you’ll get a shotgun up your arse”.
I remember a G0B** series callsign where he killed himself on-air, but that was on GB3WL. Quite a sad case.
@@g0fvt As Rex, G4JUJ would say... blimey. As you say, sad case indeed. I remember listening to WL and hearing G4JUJ, G4SAD and G8RSD. There were probably more regulars but I can't recall their callsigns.JUJ and SAD were quite amusing.
@@stevemumbling7720, yes all familiar callsigns. Gerald (G8RSD) was famous for having a 13 hour non-stop over on GB3WL, he passed away a long time ago. Rex moved away a long time ago and has apparently given up radio entirely. It all looks bad in writing but it was often damn funny in the day. I remember saying to Rex "I am thinking of buying a Hillman Super Minx" knowing he would rage about them for ages, nearly 2 hours... result
@@g0fvt The trigger for Gerald to go into a huge monolgue was to say he killed his mother if I recall correctly. So what's on the London repeaters these days? SL, WL, NL and EL were always good for a laugh. I haven't lived in the UK for many years. Here in Oz the 2m repeaters sound like Top Band.
It seems like this was your "channel 6"
So what your saying is repeaters we're the first call of duty 2 lobbys lol
Good old days …….. 😀
For those of us on the wrong side of the pond, what is a repeater, and what is it supposed to do? Some context for the ignorant, please.
It was so long ago that I did not remember that letter (4:18) -ex G1ZCY
Wow! Small world!
TIL shortwave is just 4chan for old people
So many salty hams.
Gawd.....
SL even had it’s own song called The Ballard of GB3SL - can be heard here ruclips.net/video/kGKCZpMoyWA/видео.html
Utterly disgusting, and of course, another excellent video.
73 M7TUD
I would say GB3EL and GB3NL
What is the purpose of this sistematic repeaters jamming, some movement, too many sick individuals or something other? After all repeater service is open for everyone with radio with or without license so why you need to jamming something what you can use for free =\
All of this is alien to me, what is the practical purpose of all of this? Is this just a bunch of chatrooms getting buck?
Who funds these repeaters then?
Normally Ham Club's.
@@TRIPPLEJAY00 Thanks! I find it bizarre that fellow enthusiasts would get so wound up about them.
OK, as a founder member of the anti repeater group, (about 5 people back in the day, but became over 50 active members)) I think I have a right to comment. Most of this is simply wrong. GB3LO was indeed hammered badly, because it was never wanted, it morphed into GB3SL, and it simply got 'worse' - but all that is irrelevant ! The fact is that history speaks. Where are the repeaters now? Where is the need / desire? GONE ! so, on behalf of Spiney Norman, Supercrud, Radio Clitoral Stimulator, Sexy Samantha, Malcolm Muggeridge, all the rest, the whole damn lot !!! WE WON. Discuss, and just live with it. Sorry UKFM group, you lost, live with it. Did anyone die? Nah, not because of us, but maybe, because they were too gushing as to the non-existent advantages of the stupid communications they evangelised about. End of the day? we're still about, are they? Happiest time of my life, bar none. Regrets? Je nest RIEN !
Hey Steve, thanks for commenting. What parts of the video are wrong?
And if you want to chat RingwayManchester@mail.com
I just heard a station calling CQ on S20. Looked them up on QRZ and low and behold it’s the guy who had his magmount stolen - G8MWK and also an ex member of the ARG ! 🤣🤣🤣
Don't like Repeaters or Jammers
Nah Not Buying license abuse of Piratell operative Signatives Air and Irionesphere Stratosphere free.