11 Meter Band - Freebanders and Signals from Jupiter

[@shortwavelistener]

Be sure to check out the previous "Scanning the Bands" video about the 35 meter band --> kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5vJdHupppqXba8

[@maikerumine]

Thank you!! These videos are great!

[@mcdonald1743]

I love radio stuff. First video of yours that ive seen. Went ahead and subscribed for you. Good luck with your channel. You'll probably see some comments time to time from me.

[@shortwavelistener]

Thanks for the comment and watching! Working on the next video now!

[@miker8379]

Used to be some rc model plane frequency in there somewhere.

[@shortwavelistener]

@@miker8379 I had that in my notes and forgot to mention it!! Might have to do a Part 2 like the 170 meter videos. Thanks for the comment.

[@MrOverclock]

At 15:20 is a brasilian trucker saying that his final destination is his home but first he is going to unload the truck At 16:00 is another brasilian but can't undestand what he is saying

[@shortwavelistener]

Thanks for the translation! I'll have to check what channels Brazil has on 11 meters.

[@MrOverclock]

@shortwavelistener Brasil have 80 channels on CB from 26.960 MHz to 27.860 MHz and they call "PX" to the "CB" band. On Amateur Bands they have allocated some space in 12m and 10m. It seems that 25Mhz is illegal, but not sure. I'm not Brazilian, i'm Portuguese and as we speak the same language, just for curiosity I took some time to search for this information cause I thought it would be easyer for me. But hope anyone from Brazil can enlighten us about this 25Mhz transmitions

[@M7XCB]

Very interesting i will have to listen around 11 meter more often.

[@shortwavelistener]

Thanks!

[@mindblast3901]

Hi Thanks for video that sound at 17:37 at the end is plaguing 10m band also weird data Heard in UK

[@shortwavelistener]

That's interesting! I'll try to dig into that more. I think there might have to be an 11 meter video follow-up like I did with the 170 meter video.

[@miker8379]

Rumored Russian radar and jamming

[@fo3508]

French Foreign Legion operates on AM above CB out of South America with a really darn nice station +30db over into Florida panhandle and all I had was a wire dipole hung 20ft in a tree and a beat up old HR2510.

[@fnordist]

Back in the '90s, I could pick up Deutsche Welle broadcasts on the 11-meter band in Italy and Spain, and the signal was pretty strong. Since I didn’t have a shortwave car radio, I used a CB radio instead, and it worked really well.

[@shortwavelistener]

I was trying to remember if I was receiving 11 meters broadcasts as a kid in the 70s with my Hallicrafters SW - I just don't know. But, I do have a pile of QSL cards from back then - I should dig those out. I recall always scanning the LW and upper SW bands for any signals - they always seemed mysteriously empty in the central US.

[@MedusalObligation]

at 18:30 that sounds exactly like a remote monitoring system I had. Basically it is 4 channels of input transmitted to a pager like receiver that illuminates LEDs to indicate a change of state of the inputs. (mine was on 27.095) It is tone code linked to specific receivers so many can be on the same frequency without interference. I monitored an irrigation system with mine.

[@shortwavelistener]

Thanks for the comment! Do you have a web link to something similar we could see?

[@MedusalObligation]

@@shortwavelistener This stuff is long out of production. But you can still find King Cobra alarms. They were similar and made by the same company.

[@SimonBlandford]

In Europe you are much more likely to hear freebanders outside of the standard CB band. Some countries have legal CB bands on different frequencies such as the German 40-channels below the “mid” band and the original UK CB channels just below 28MHz. FM is used more in Europe on CB too.

[@shortwavelistener]

Thanks! Are there still many UK CBers in the upper 27.5 - 28mhz range?

[@SimonBlandford]

@@shortwavelistener Not so many now. It is mainly used for local communication using the legal 4W, so if you hear it from another part of the world you're doing quite well! The best way to hear it is on a KiwiSDR in the UK. There is a particularly good SDR in Western Super Mare that I often use. It uses a 5/8th wave for the 10-12m bands and you can often hear locals on it, especially in the UK evenings. Another thing to listen out for are Sunday morning services being broadcast from Northern Ireland. This is actually a legal use of CB radio in the UK. I was surprised to hear this is still going on last summer when I heard it in London during the Sp-E season.

[@fnordist]

Yeah, I heard those guys too a few days ago on the 11-meter broadcast band-the Brazilians. They’re CB operators; you can tell from the roger beep. With the solar maximum, they’ll be transmitting from there all the time.

[@justme-n-gracie]

"Freeband" refers to the popular but illicit operation outside the 40 FCC allocated frequencies. "Freeband" is not the 40 channels that are legal to use.

[@shortwavelistener]

Yeah, I mention that in the video. I still call them freebanders since there are so many using it illegally outside the bounds of the allocated power in Part 95 of the FCC on those channels. But, for the general CB population you are right!

[@gordonlowe8473]

I’ve just got back into CB after a 30 year absence and New Zealand where I’m from - CB channels are on 26 MHz channels 1- 26.330 to channel 40 - 26.770 Channel 11 - 26.450 Truckie channel is the busiest . But NZ is also using 27 MHz now as well as so many US and Aussie sets are here.

[@shortwavelistener]

Great info! I'm surprised it's down as low as 26.330!

[@miker8379]

Part of 11 used to be a ham band pre 58 or 62

[@shortwavelistener]

@@miker8379 Really?? Interesting - I’ll have to look that up. Thanks!!

[@ScottMorganHarris]

Very interesting. Have you ever heard the German propaganda broadcast on 26.805 FM mode? It has been on daily for about a year now. Its is sometimes strong in the southwest US during the day. Several people i know have been trying to triangulate the origin of signal.

[@shortwavelistener]

Wow! I didn't hear about that. I'm going to do some searching / listening for it! Thx!

[@mcdonald1743]

Thats cool. If you find out more information about it please let us know.

[@zxeng6064]

Compleatly missed the underground DX movement calling on 27.555 MHz USB STARTED BY THE Alpha Tango group and still strong today , otherwise very enjoyable,

[@shortwavelistener]

I knew I was going to miss some interesting areas. I'm glad watchers like you add comments! It's tough research trying to discover everything across a band. This is good info, tho! I'll look into it and maybe do an addendum video like I did for 170 meters. Thanks!

[@MidlifeRenaissanceMan]

26.285MHz USB is _the other_ triple nickels. Not as popular, but still some activity is heard there. They’d say it was where the “polite” operators world hang out

[@walkingtowheels]

I listen to foreign language broadcasts, and use an external microphone and run it through an app '3PO' or 'Google translate' works well. On the 11m band there's a lot of Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Greek and Arabic but strangely enough French is not popular (considering I'm listening from France) i do find it strange...

[@shortwavelistener]

That is a great idea!!! I can't believe I didn't think of that! Thanks for the tip!

[@Redbelly357]

I like finding and turning in the freebanders. I'm 3 for 3. Lot's of fun.

[@dansuttle8977]

We all need hobbies ;-)