Hunting Super Illegal Signals

[@peterh9238]

07:01 Geordie almost impossible to understand unless your pissed AWAY MAN! 🤣

[@RingwayManchester]

I struggled with that one the most! 😂👍🏻

[@peterh9238]

I used to work with a couple of Geordies, great guys but when they argued they would become animated and totally incomprehensible 🤣 @@RingwayManchester

[@TheUberdude187]

That's more mackam than geordie.

[@rwdplz1]

Are we SURE that was English?

[@andw2638]

I understood the gadgie

[@scottlarson1548]

On the west coast of the U.S. I used to hear Japanese fisherman regularly. Of course I couldn't understand anything but they were still very entertaining sometimes. For example they would sing songs with an operator singing a verse then saying the name of the next guy who would sing the next verse. This would go on until the song ended and they would laugh. I could imagine how boring it was to sit in a boat on the ocean and how this was a fun way to pass the time.

[@justc000l]

thats the most wholesome thing ever!

[@SunFrame]

Yes I like this channel, this guy reminds me of that normal looking random guy in the pub beer garden who shares his spliff with you before dropping complete knowledge bombs about unknown subjects then wanders off leaving everyone baffled but intellectually improved.

[@bobroberts2371]

The only person we get in the USA is Cliff Clavin . . . . .

[@ikaruseijin01]

Ringway Manchester replies: "Have we met before?"

[@grhinson]

Cheers mate

[@andykirby]

😂😂😂

[@sirrodney3443]

🤣🤣🤣

[@joj.]

Hilarious to hear the Geordies illegally broadcasting on radio whilst simultaneously complaining about the crap signal lol

[@AndreasDelleske]

There is a natural law: We complain only about stuff we do ourselves :)

[@rob_ya_boy]

2:10 Russian to English. I think at least one of them is transmitting out of the town of Mineralniy Vody, shortened to Minvody in most conversations. Other person's last name is left out to protect their privacy. Voice 1: "So who else approached, fellows?" Voice 2: "Yes, I can only hear Minvody. I'm Alexander //////////// of Kaliningrad Oblast. Number two, Minvody. I can hear you quietly. Maybe a score of 6 or 7, but I am still receiving. Ready to receive."

[@JackDunford]

3:34 - "They refer to this as the Hell Band". That'd explain why 6969 Khz is known as the "Nice" band.

[@leeroy144]

Nice

[@lagmonster7789]

Can i just leave some props for all you legends in the comments translating these clips? Very much appreciated, it just adds that cherry on top for these fascinating videos TYSM 😀

[@andycampbell8476]

Radio is now, and perhaps always will be one of my favorite human inventions. There’s still such a variety of things to hear, pretty much all over the spectrum.

[@stewpot3971]

The speakers at 5.45 are actually Spanish from Galicia which is north of Portugal. Speaking in Gallego but hard to hear most of the conversation. Pretty much saying that they have their catch, got what they could and now heading back home. Also talking about that they had eaten supper. Hard to make out fully as i am use to speaking Spanish and Catalan but struggle with Gallego

[@laszlofyre845]

30 years ago, c. 6.5mhz was complained about in SW mag as 'the Scottish fishermans Open Swearing Championships'!

[@MM0IMC]

😂

[@AndreasDelleske]

Finally Brexit gave them something to swear about!

[@fredmorton1631]

Yup ! I remember listening to them on 40 Meters back in the mid sixties. Always good for a laugh

[@soobash]

This reminds me of my short wave listening days in my early teens in the mid 1980's on the island of Mauritius. I had come across the book 'Short Wave Listening Handbook' by Joe Pritchard in my school library. I promptly built myself a 100 m random wire antenna ( it never occurred to me that I should seek permission to string the wires across my home property and the 2 adjoining properties in the countryside :) ). I connected this to my family Sanyo radio tape recorder and off I was listening to broadcast radio not even meant for my region. I could easily pick up domestic Indian stations on the short wave bands. Then these were these donald ducky quacky voices on the radio during the day. I used a hand held transistor radio as a BFO and suddenly I could make out what was being said. Turned out to be two people doing a 1000 km inter island chat. I was not comfortable listening to people's conversations. So I gave up listening to these signals. A storm came and blew away my antenna and I lost interest in looking for the weaker signals. Your video now make me realise that I was listening to radio pirates !

[@twistieman1078]

@wyomarine6341 ok

[@gurjotsingh8934]

Sounds very fun

[@totz83]

LMAO at the Geordie lad. There's not enough AI in the world to decipher that

[@SunFrame]

I genuinely thought he was speaking Norwegian at first

[@LimitedWard]

This must be what English sounds like to non-english speakers

[@jonc4403]

@@SunFrame Could be Danish. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qV7QgKxui7p4eM0

[@RCAvhstape]

@@LimitedWard Depends on which version English. A German guy once told me that we Americans sound like someone trying to talk with a sock in his mouth.

[@dougtaylor7724]

Sounds like a drunk scot mocking someone. I had no clue what he said.

[@MVVblog]

07:31 This is a SOUTHERN Italian dialect and is barely understandable even by us Italians. however this piece of audio is quite clear, it says: "you have to put it in order, for this year you have to work with what you have, try to do what you can. Next year we'll try to fix it, but it will take time, it will take all of next year and the year after that however from now on, he must not make any more mistakes, because if you get one wrong every year.... And here ends the audio, You probably recorded a very un-legal conversation, something you probably shouldn't have listened to.

[@xspiritofdivisionx]

Could the gibberish be "con uno" with the sentence being "with one that from now on must not make any more mistakes"?

[@John-mf6ky]

Mafia radio? Lol

[@sleeplessindefatigable6385]

I feel quite proud of myself for correctly identifying that as Italian. I recognised the pattern of speech and I thought I heard the operator say "systemama beve" at some point, which sounds like he's talking about a drinks machine.

[@anandarochisha]

Listening to what i probably should not be listening to is why have a radio in the first place. Yes. Southern Italian.

[@edoardomariascardamaglia4325]

Grazie Marco!

[@ankeko]

At 5:47, it is Galician what is spoken. They are speaking about an unidentified business, "we had dinner and we went home, then two or three days later..." Then video switches to other frequency. Galicia is a region in the Northwest of Spain with it's own language

[@wirelessseatbelt2472]

i speak portuguese, and boy i could swear that dude was speaking in portuguese XD

[@fabiomuzzi7047]

at 06:27, that's Italian, from south of Italy. "So, Alex, I have to say goodbye now. I say goodbye also to the ones that are just listening, SWLs..."

[@RT-qd8yl]

Well that was nice of him

[@thormusique]

Incredible stuff, Lewis! I had no idea all this could be heard on the bands. I might need to go down some of these rabbit holes though. Wonderful video, cheers!

[@HighWealder]

Back 40 years ago or more, drilling rigs in the Sahara communicated with their local offices by shortwave and probably still do? I remember one bloke in an office saying that they had letters from as far away as Scandinavia from people who listened to them.

[@IrishKingzz]

This brings back memories from when it was a child in the early 90's in Ireland. My father used to have this big old radio and it would pick up all sorts, from truckers to police radio 😂

[@andyhowlett2231]

The 6.6 MHz band has been going for many years. I listened to it in the 70's and was active for a short period myself. At the time I was busy doing 'other things', so I never got very involved. The 1600 to 1800 kHz band is where our crowd hung out in about 1970 to 1973, using AM across Manchester. It was just out of the MW band so ordinary listeners couldn't hear us, and it was far enough below the '160 metre' amateur band not to be noticed. I eventually got nicked for this and fined £35 plus costs and they also wanted my new Trio receiver. In a rare fit of bravery I told them they couldn't have it (I had only just bought it) so they whacked another £20 on my fine. Thanks for awakening my memory Lewis!

[@SteveSteeleSoundSymphony]

Great story.

[@rhodaborrocks1654]

Some of the lads were getting whacked up to 600 pounds for similar infringements in the London area around that same time frame, plus loss of all equipment, which was a big ouch and sure put me off, I still have some MW crystals though, including some for around the 1600 khz part of the band, happy days.

[@andyhowlett2231]

@@rhodaborrocks1654 600 smackers was a lot of money back then! They took my homebrew transmitter with them when they raided and I never saw it again. I moved on to a 'Sunday Morning' music pirate called Radio Aquarius on Medium Wave and I later got done (twice!) for that.

[@bjorn2625]

Forgive a stupid question, but who nicked you? I'm aware Ofcom manages the frequencies but didn't think there was much policing.

[@rhodaborrocks1654]

@@bjorn2625 It was the GPO in the '70s and certainly in the London area they had a handful of rather enthusiastic enforcement chaps whose names were well known to us, they took it quite seriously.

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

A couple of years ago i heard a bunch of American fisherman operating in the cw portion of the 80 meter band on usb. The strength of their signals led me to believe they were in the Pacific, probably near the coast.

[@098765432qwertyuiop]

French translation @4:10: 'Bah oui bah bien sur en plus nan mais ouais y'avait quelqu'chose' 'Yeah but of course i'm telling you there was something there' 'Y'avait un gros lezard c'est tout' 'There was a big lizzard that's it' (can be translated to having a big problem as not having a lizard== not having problems in french idiom) 'Tu t'rend compte toi, [c'est quoi chaviré d'la caisse?]' Kinda untintelligible but I can make out 'capsize' a box? 'BOuah putain jte dis il faut le faire, c'est quand même quelque'chose' 'Gotta tell you we gotta do it, it's something' @5:10: 'It's 10/15cm of water and it's gone. That's it Bernard, on another topic [unintelligble/talking about money?]. Then there's HBJ that I heard that was dead.' Honestly the kind of rant/converstion I have with friends over 3 pints at the bar. Not spy stuff :D

[@Parabol_]

j'ai eu du mal a comprendre la deuxième partit a 5:10 aussi

[@vplurworld]

For the french translation at 4:11 : « Yeah, of course ! Moreover there were something. There were a big lizard, that’s all. Imagine, this thing could throw you overboard. It’s something huh »

[@dodenmanniskan8846]

Was looking for this kind of comment !

[@kirkanos771]

big lizard = big issue. Not the animal.

[@vplurworld]

​@@kirkanos771 Honnêtement, je préfère m'en tenir à ma traduction initiale ;)

[@steventonm]

Very interesting! I am a full licence radio ham, and am aware of many illegal transmissions! Perhaps one day Kenwood or Yaesu or Icom might possible come out with a button to press called "Universal Translator" as per Star Trek. Now that WOULD be fun.........

[@Killz0mbies]

If it's clear enough, you can use google translate via mic.

[@Isochest]

​@@Killz0mbiesSo Babel Fish is here!

[@greenlichtie]

@7:00 that chap is using geordie cypher, totally undecypherable to the human ear 🤣🤣

[@ikaruseijin01]

4:11 Spoken in French obviously. Person 1: "Well yes, but of course... but also...there was something... there was a... a big lizard, that's all... and then you realize what it is (unintelligible)" Person 2: "Well that (expletive)... he has ? to do..." end of clip.

Such big lizard, a French expression meaning there was something hidden to screw you. Nothing rampant with four legs of course ! "There's no lizard" meaning the reverse, that the situation is completely neat (or allegedly neat)

[@ikaruseijin01]

@ but what if there really was a big lizard? You would have not reported Godzilla and people wouldn't have evacuated in time...

@@ikaruseijin01 In fact French natives can understand the subtile difference between a physical lizard and a virtual lizard depending on the tone of the voice and the dialectic used. And in this conversation, the type of guy is well exposed. Definitely not a qualified herpetologist !

[@ikaruseijin01]

@ Well that is a relief.

[@petermainwaringsx]

I remember lots of illegal nets on the fifty meter/six megahertz band fifty years ago. There was always lots of activity on there particularly on Sundays. But I don't recall any Russians, probably because at that time the USSR would have come down heavy on illegal transmitters. Nearly all English language transmissions by Brits, US and Italians ETC. The guy at about 7:10 sounds like Lee Mack doing a Geordie accent. 😂 Another very interesting video, and was that a bit of Propellor Heads, Decks & Drums & Rock & Roll right at the end? Must give that a play again 😎 Thanks for the upload.

[@POLO9999]

5:13 (French to English translation) - There were 15cm of water and then it went out... Oh well, Bernard, otherwise... for Sophie / Marc / Paris they're doing QSO with i'm sure... afterwards there were HPJ i've heard... he were dead HP(or B?)J...

[@apc108]

Excellent. I learned a few new bands! I'm near London, and I do pick up English language 'peskies' from time to time and judging by the content, they are indeed out on fishing boats, often in the North sea or sometimes, I think, around the coast of Ireland. There are some recognisable Scottish, Irish, Northern Irish and Geordie accents from time to time and they generally know how to curse and swear. I'm going to listen out for the US east coast.

[@KarlHobson]

6.660 MHz was really busy with UK/EUROPEAN countries in the 70s 80s strange with it being an aeronautical band, great video, amazing research, and thoroughly interesting...many thanks Lewis

[@g4lmn-ron]

Aeronautical band means equipment is available on the surplus used market.

[@Sypaka]

Because 666. thats why.

[@jplacido9999]

​@@g4lmn-ron They use ham radio gear

[@adk3229]

In the 80's as a kid, I had a cheap watch that was an am / fm radio. You could plug headphones into it. I listened to my downstairs neighbours cordless phone calls for about 2 years. :D

[@flipfloptanlines926]

The french dude was sayin," Ho! You betta get my money!" She said "No", and he immediately surrendered

[@bobdinwiddy]

@00:10 😂 a charming old Amsterdammer “…als je de Wolf heb opgelopen; en dat de ene dag ‘gaat ie weer’ en de andere dag ben je beroerd! Vandaar vroeg ik het zo, weet je wel…” ‘cos if you've got the Clap, the one day you're “okay again” but the other you're “having a turn”. that's why I was asking, like. know what I mean?!” 😮😅❤

[@wa1ufo]

6580 LSB is used by fishermen in Florida and the Carribean. The language can get pretty salty at times.

[@PatrikS57AP]

Also at 7:34 are Italians (Italian), they are talking about repairing something or something similar.

[@OregonDX]

Here in the US living on the Oregon Coast I have encountered Fishing vessel pirates on the 2 meter band. I recall them using the national SSTV frequency. I think it was 144.550?

[@John-mf6ky]

Interesting

[@fabiomuzzi7047]

At 7:30 in Italian "we are trying to put thing in order, this year you you have to work with what you have, next year we'll try and make it (what?) right, but to make it right for good we will need nex year and the one after that. But only if you do not make any more mistakes, because if you make a [can't understand it] mistake every year..."

[@u.e.u.e.]

5:45 and in the end was definitely Portuguese from the mainland of Portugal (dialect). It was not possible to decipher. The same was about the Russian. He talked about "Leningradsky Oblast" = "District of Leningrad" (Area of St. Petersburg).

[@jplacido9999]

No portuguese. Only galician (Galícia, Northwest of Spain). That land was ours for a brief period but returned to "Spain" (Spain didn't exist then)

[@ntokin]

He talked about Kaliningrad region (former Kenigsberg)

[@pogorosone]

@@ntokin hmm, actually Królewiec - Fief of the Kingdom of Poland. In 2023 Poland was the first country which changed their maps and returned to the old name of this city after ruSS orcs invaded Ukraine. pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Królewiec

[@gamlemann53]

it's a lot of them everywhere Lewis. I have listen to them in years even before I was a licensed radioamatour. I think it's a part of the hobby to use the VFO and listen to things! Thank's for the video! The best from LB1NH 🙂

[@202Electrics]

starting on 10 till 20 seconds in the intro is a Dutch guy talking about soms health difficulties. I really hoped you had some more about Dutch stations. Because I know the dutch RDR is really strict in following laws around the use of radio bands.

[@jeroenhashman2383]

😂 the dutch strick 😂 yes for commercial stations no for the Lonely pirate that does no harm to others

[@POLO9999]

4:10 full French Translation (I'm bilingual soo it's easy) - Yeah but of course... and also yeah but really... there were... there were something's going wrong that's all! Could you believe that?!? That's something to damage his vehicle ! (To flip his boat during a storm?) - Oh yeah Thibault, "F-word", i tell you we're doing it ! - This is something...

[@jjhendo]

I miss hearing and chatting with the other fisherman trolling Lake Superior and Michigan.

[@DavieTait]

Back in the 1980s on our trawler we used to use 2226khz,2788khz,3373khz all USB to talk to other boats and to "shout home" as we had a Kenwood receiver in the house and my grandfather ( retired trawler skipper at that time ) would listen in, we had A code so my uncle could let us know where they were and how things were going. No UK fishermen bother to use the old radio channels as everyone that by law has to have a transceiver on that band has satellite coms now so use the internet

[@glenjarnold]

I remember listening in to the trawlers late evenings on my receiver in the 80s, some of the accents were unbelievably strong, and some of the language would make your hair curl 😂 Even so, great respect to those guys and some of the conditions they must have faced at times. I'd love to hear some of their stories 👍🏻

[@andykirby]

Fascinating stuff rog!!!🙌🏻

[@thes764]

Brief but welcome gloss over some of the most active pirate "allocations" Lewis. The topic might warrant some in depth looks! "Troyka" with it's mix of drifting, likely homebrew, AM gear mixed with state of the art SSB rigs is a fascinating world of its own. Remember reading an article on the "siberian village radio" side of that. Anyway, thanks & 73!

[@RingwayManchester]

I’d love to chat via email on this if you have more info! Thanks so much. [e-mail]

[@joczo97]

In Hungary,we have a small but active group on 5166kHz ;) The 60meter band is just perfect to cover the whole country,from border to border and short distances as well

[@andimerkle6924]

Why not 6,5MHz .. ? This is the Pirat-Frequency

[@PunkTiger]

*heh* I live about a half mile away from a fishing marina in Massachusetts. I'll have to tune in to those frequencies and see if I hear anything.

[@ulexite-tv]

Please do -- and send it to Lewis!

[@Federico84]

At 6:15 the language is Italian and the person is saying “Va bene Alessandro allora purtroppo la .. forzatura … devo staccare, ti ringrazio per tutto e saluto anche chi sta in ascolto” 7:30 “Stanno cercando di rimettere ordine, quindi quest’anno ormai per il lavorare con quello che hai, quello che puoi fare fai. L’anno prossimo cercheranno già di sistemarla, ma per sistemarla bene ci vorrà l’anno prossimo e l’altro ancora … uno che però da ora ancora non deve fare ancora errori, perché se sbagli …. ogni anno”

[@Null--]

In english: "Alright Alessandro, unfortunately, I have to disconnect due to some... forceful circumstances. I thank you for everything and also greet those who are listening. At 7:30, they are trying to put things back in order, so this year, just work with what you have and do what you can. Next year, they will already try to fix it, but to fix it properly, it will take next year and the one after that... someone, however, must not make any mistakes from now on, because if you make a mistake... every year."

[@DetectiveOnan]

Si, sono i soliti che parlano sempre li (qualcuno di quelli anche in 27-circa), alcuni delle mie parti. Noiosissimi. Sono stati "raspati" già un 15-20 anni fa, multati, etc, ma il vizio è sempre quello.

[@c144gaming]

Listening to the Russian radio pirate it made me feel like I was playing a stalker game lmao

[@anthonyfranz8317]

I've heard stations in the 10000khz range, possibly the Russians, I'll have to do some investigating. Thanks for another great video.

[@newmanc6619]

Most hf prates in the USA are usually between 6.8 and 7.0 MHz. Some play good music.

[@ianliston-smith7921]

More brilliant stuff! Where do you get all this info? There is also weird European voice coms audible in the UK below 27 MHz, down to about 25 MHz, when the F2 conditions are right.

[@andimerkle6924]

26.5 to 27MHz is Germany , legal , 80Ch on CB Band

[@justme2386]

7:00 mins is people from either my city.. Newcastle upon Tyne (Geordies) or very close by. That’s a strong Northeast England accent. Wet aye man, can’t get noot through, nee WhatsApp, picture messages or noot 😂😂 great videos you make. I’d love to know where I’d get a radio the same or similar to yours. I know they won’t be cheap lol. Thanks for your detailed breakdown of your videos 🙂 they are boss.

[@vilaintrolltrollinsky8007]

"Il y avait un gros Lézard" "Big lizard" mean some kind of conflict. Sometime (1%) it mean violence, but most of the time it mean pesky problems of trust or other bitchy things.

[@casfren]

06:00 the only thing i undesntood of the spanish is "we had food and we went home" looks like they have a Galician accent (region of Spain ontop of portugal) or its just Portuguese. Edit: commenter suggested they are speaking Gallego, Galician. Witch makes sense, their fisheries are quite reputable.

[@jasperkok8745]

The first 20 seconds sound Portuguese to me, although I can’t translate, quite a bit gets lost in fading. Then, Italian is spoken.

[@jplacido9999]

No, it is NOT portuguese. It is galego (Galicia, Spain, north over Portugal). Very similar, but not the same. Galícia was from Portugal for a litle while but we lost it. They like us a lot. Very good relations. Galegos use illegal HF frequencies for fishing chatter.

[@casfren]

@@jplacido9999 ups, I see the misunderstanding, I'll correct it right away. I should have known, I've heard gallego before.

[@jasperkok8745]

@@jplacido9999 I know about Galician, as I studied Spanish (Castilian) as a foreign language at university. I thought I heard a nasal sound that doesn’t occur naturally in Galician but only in Portuguese. But if you say it’s Galician and not Portuguese, I take your word for it. 👍

[@jplacido9999]

@@casfren Yes, sir, I'm shure 👍 but it is very similar, that's why you thought it was portugues. Galicia, in the past, wanted to be portuguese, but not now, of course....(in the 50/60's they came to work in Lisbon to cope with the money dificulties of Spain...still in the aftermath of that terrible civil war, and also the backlash from WW II)

[@danigalan1]

6:00 is not a pirate lenguaje is called Gallego, a mixed lenguaje of spanish and portugues

[@awambawamb]

7:32 it's Italian, with a distinct sicilian accent. "we are trying to straighten up things. so this year, to work, we're going slow. Next year we will fix this up, but need to fix it up for good. We need to have someone doing only that, without making errors, because if you make a dumb error every year..." maybe you picked up something you shouldn't.

[@awambawamb]

6:10 more Italian. "...I need to see something, a moment." "It's ok Alessandro, unfortunately there is some forcing here and I need to log out. Thank you for everything, greetings also to those who are listening." seems safer here...

[@alexkitner5356]

For the US fishermen, would this be from a Single Side Band radio? Ive worked on a lot of boats, more charter and party than draggers or netters but the only radio besides the VHF line of sight were SSBs which didnt use to be an unusual sight for an older boat but rarely used if functional. These days if its not VHF we are picking up the sat phone when offshore and cell if in range, with tools like the Garmin ones we can text and call with our network of people, share information and not have to put it out over the VHF. Im thinking its the long haul scallop boats that youd hear, most trawlers dont stay out as long as they used to so they dont spread as far as the scallopers. They run all up and down from off Maryland up to the Gulf of Maine, are long rough trips usually with some pretty rough crews. We trade with them when we see them, a few beers or some cigs and before sat tv even traded newspapers cause they are out of touch for 2 weeks or more. The areas are opened and closed by the government so they follow the openings and plow along like farmers tilling fields.

[@gtretroworld]

I actually cannot believe 6.6 is still a thing. I know there was a bit of action around the 90’s to the early 2000’s but i thought most had disappeared. I’ll be sure to have a listen about especially after hearing those Geordies, thanks for sharing.

[@PaulStrickland]

Back around 1990 the UK Police UHF channels were plagued by Dutch trawlers!

[@RonanCantwell]

Geordie scrambler engaged!

[@Wenlocktvdx]

In Australia we get Indonesian peskies in two main spots on 40M

[@paulreading8980]

You call these user pirates presumably thee frequencies are allocated for some other use if so what is the correct use of these frequencies. Are they interfering with authorised users? Is there any enforcement or is it just a free for all?

[@laurensvisser7623]

Certain frequencies between 3800 and 3900 are aeronautical long range frequencies and a Dutch pirate (Westcoast AM) was caught once, about 15 years ago, because he was actively (and presumably unknowingly, the guy behind it was definitely not some kind of yokel) interfering with that frequency. Same goes for frequencies between the 40m amateur band and the 49m broadcast band. Out of the top of my head - between 6300 and 6600 you got a bunch of airplane atlantic frequencies again. But i don't know *exactly* which official user is allocated where. You can find a lot of information in the documents provided by your national telecommunication agency like the FCC in the USA, Ofcom in the UK and AT (now RDI) in the Netherlands. Often you don't hear a thing, but that does not mean that if you transmit there that others won't hear *you*.

[@Joe_VanCleave]

@@laurensvisser7623 Okay, so a fisherman broadcasting from international waters, which country’s comms laws apply?

[@liarus]

4:10 - Yeah, of course.... - yeah there was something ... there was a big Lizard that was all - do you realize ? [incomprehensible] - ... woah, fuck you gotta be someone to do that, it's something! ( it's a rough translation of the meaning, there's no equivalent way to translate that in english) Seems like they're talking with someone else about something but we just hear this one guy's side.

[@m3hnl]

fascinating stuff lewis thank you

[@albertocozzi4091]

06:16 - 06:28 is italian. It basically says that he needs to go and is ceasing comms (QRT 73). Also from 7:32 to 7:54 is italian (Sicilian dialect to be precise). I dont fully understand but is talking about fixing someting in about 2 years time (the boat maybe?) giving it to someone reputable. Intresting video, cheers.

[@WA4TKG]

I love your collection of radios, anywhere from the new IC-7300 (had one for a very short time and sold it, because sold the house, excellent radio) or the IC-705, but you also have the ancient DX-77 in pristine condition, I see. 73 from Okinawa: 7J6CAT

[@WA4TKG]

Make that the DX-200

[@explorationtoday2732]

Salute to all pirate radio operators!

[@RingwayManchester]

Amen to that

[@weasel2htm]

With you discussing Echo Charlie, got me thinking that a collaboration between you and Radio Workshop could be fun.

[@SnareX]

Is there a website where I can tune in? Id don't have have any radio equipment but would be fun to listen

[@markaz2kk]

In Oz, we get Indonesian, Phillipines, Polynesia, Malaysian, Indian, and a lot of African countries fishing 🎣 🛥️ and a huge amount of pirates on all bands in the evening. Some just pour into CB and Amateur Radio bands.

[@Lord_common_sense]

Really wonder why the first one said: "..it must be just a big lizard" lmfao

[@Schismarch]

I could swear I heard the French guy say “there was a big lizard”.

[@crashgames8608]

what type of antenna would you need to listen in on these

[@PatrikS57AP]

At 6:14 are Italians: Alright Alessandro, I have to go, thank you and say goodbye to any listeners

[@PatrikS57AP]

That's the translation

[@DnBclassictunes]

I remember 'the tea time' band back in the 1990's. Definitely was very busy and good fun

[@PatrikS57AP]

I know that on 10435, 10455, 10425 kHz and so on are really strong in Sloveni, I can hear them every day. And Serbians often use frequencies between 1700 - 1780 kHz in AM mode.

[@craiggilchrist4223]

I extended my antenna the other day and started picking up the local Mosques broadcasting. I'm in central Birmingham.

[@paganphil100]

@craiggilchrist4223: I get them on the PMR frequencies too. There are two mosques within one mile of my home (near Burnley).

[@0therun1t21]

7:03 What kind of accemt is this? I've never heard anything like it.

[@michelspeelman3599]

0:10-0:19 is Dutch :"some day you are doing somwhat okl, the other day you feel very sick. That is why i'm asking"

[@DerekWitt]

Earlier this week, I heard a transmission just below the CB Band in Spanish. I was listening to CB (including someone overmodulating badly on CB channel 6). I happened to notice the out-of-band transmission below CB. I’m not sure if Mexico operates/allows CB below the US CB band. If not, probably pirates or smugglers.

[@TheOpticalFreak]

This video was way too short! 😭

[@mrfrog8502]

Good for them. It's what makes this hobby interesting. Illegal or not there's very little social harm in it so I don't see the problem.

[@RingwayManchester]

Absolutely

[@earlyadapter643]

The big wavelengths > 80 meter might be not so convenient for the fishing boat because it requires long antennas and the propagation is not extraordinary, just straight up to the troposphere and back down giving 100 km range i think. In HF i never tried anything different from 20 m because i don't believe in endfeds and a dipole doesnt fit in my attic.

[@makskk6spm275]

Great catch. Thanks!

[@hammyh1165]

When i worked for the Forestry Commission we used to get interference from fishing trawlers in the North Sea , wasn't much of a problem though.

[@Not-TheOne]

Where can I find out more about various radio / signals in and around South Africa? I like playing around with my SDR trying to pick up various radios. (have a HackRF One)

[@spxza]

There's some scattered around various forums, but nothing solid I've found.

[@Not-TheOne]

@@spxza Yeah, I search around a lot, but cant find a community for it, maybe too small and niche for ZA. Or nobody thought of organizing a group.....maybe I should start a reddit group and see who and what sticks.

[@RicardoBigEggs]

The spanish one is telling a story about something that happened to him. They are galician for sure.

[@marsgal42]

Last night somebody was playing music on 6925 kHz USB. British Columbia, Canada.

[@crazycomet8635]

Are there any legitimate allocations in these bands?

[@ericmoeller3634]

ive actually received pirates in my town before on the short wave band before

[@i_dont_live_here]

Nice closing D&B ❤

[@drsysop]

Russia never follows the rules or they not have same regulations. Pirates here in the US & the Caribbean love to jam Russian frequencies due to the current situation as you all know we in.

[@bsdmry]

LOL. We have same regulations and similar authorities for spectrum monitoring. But. They are so-o-oo freaking lazy. I've checked "News" section of our "General radio-frequency centre" branch, and found the latest news about prosecuted radio pirate from 2020.

[@SeasparrowDD979]

That's a nice rig. What is it?

[@emiliosagichnicht7521]

Two of the Languages asked to identify were Italian dialects, although they are so vastly different that i could only understand some words in between that were probably normal italian. Italy is crazy in that regard l, there are neighbouring villages that dont understand one another.

[@Speedbird7771]

06:14- Italian, north accent- OK Alexander, unfortunately this evening I have to disconnect, I thank you for everything, I salute even other listeners… fades out.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Great video, Lewis...👍

[@sweeneyTodd-de4by]

Love the channel I’m totally new to radio, I would love a radio to listen to in my man cave , do I need to do a license to use? Can you recommend me a radio to start with that I can listen to people on without spending a fortune being my first radio

[@RingwayManchester]

Hey not for listening. If you want shortwave, the tecsun range are good. Malahit dsp2 is good too. If you’ve got deeper pockets I use an Icom 7300 and 705

[@markjefferson6262]

What is illegal about these frequencies? and the name of the drum and base at the end please.

[@RingwayManchester]

They’re out of the recognised bands and interfere with legitimate services. Drum and bass Andrew Huang

[@markjefferson6262]

@@RingwayManchester thankyou

[@EchoMirage]

The last recording is someone speaking in Italian with a very strong southern (probably sicilian) accent. I can't make every word he's saying out, but he's talking about something that is going to be fixed but would take a couple of years to be done.

[@CursorBl0ck]

I'm sorry I'm late to the party folks, so 8338.5KHz at 5:50 - that sounds a lot like Galician, a mix between portuguese and spanish which is still a common dialect in the far north of Portugal and that western bit of Spain. As best as I can tell (and can remember of Galician): "...because like I (even) said, we didn't hang out with them over there, we could even go/say [something "cow"? ]. [...] They wanted it, then they didn't want it [...again "cow"?]" - there's this word they keep using I think it sounds like 'vaca' which is Portuguese for cow (but it's not in Galician); but that said, it's not uncommon for it to be a mix of both languages, particularly with friends. I think they were complaining about some deal with cattle that didn't go so well.