Radioham nightmare neighbours next door s5 ep8 1 of 4

Radioham Armando MØPAM on TV program nightmare neighbours next door s5 ep8 from channel 5 on the October 27th 2016 Full edited 4 parts from the program.

[@neurohelixnervesupportcaps4494]

Some people have a legitimate hobby like this gentleman, whilst others spend their time poking their noses into other people's business.

[@zenicwhite1918]

As an amture radio enthusiast I'm pissed at these people leave the man alone

[@bigpimp347]

Amateur.....

[@LaunceBugbee]

Agreed

[@patriot7083]

I am one of those Ham radio operators. I got my FCC license when I was a teenager 45 years ago. It's my lifelong hobby and have talked to people in every country in the world. I have always had to contend with neighbors who are horrified by the sight of an antenna and they were sure I was the cause of any and all electrical problems and TV interference even if I wasn't at home. Most of my homes had HOA restrictions about antennas so I had to camouflage my antennas or erect them after dark. It seems to me that the nightmare in Martin's neighborhood are his neighbors. Martin isn't making any noise or hurting anyone, but his neighbors are hurting him.

[@dfirth224]

Some people even think the antennas will give you cancer. :(

[@ericzerkle8486]

I'm a ham too, and I've been accused of interfere even when I'm not home. So thier complaints are invalid. 😮

[@phillipsmiley5930]

@@dfirth224 Eating aluminium might give you alzheimer's

[@ericthiel4053]

Wish I had an antenna that nice.....

[@johnwright4744]

People who say that the antenna is giving people cancer or interfering with their tv reception have no idea what they’re talking about.

[@daveblackford6097]

Ya got that right.

[@DandyDon1]

I have a license to operate my transceiver. Where is their TV license?

[@georginaford7052]

Agree 100%, some people just cannot resist interfering.

[@stuffyourhandle]

hope he has done his boundary field strenght chart

[@Harriet_Tubgirl]

@@DandyDon1you actually do need a TV license in the UK, as pathetic as it is…

[@museonfilm8919]

Those miserable pensioners need to get a hobby for themselves. For God's sake, leave the man alone, he's enjoying his retirement and doing no harm to anyone. In fact, he is what you could call a 'citizen of the world' rather than some pathetic parochial Council snitch.

[@johnmightymole2284]

That woman has a bee in her bonnet. They all have nothing ti do. He has a keen interest. Jealousy, resentment and pettiness.

[@davidcurrie8564]

maybe she fancied him and he was more interested in his radios (her view)

[@lesleyallinson8738]

Am sorry but I don't see a problem, it doesn't block anything hes not hurting anyone

[@loctite222ms]

The woman doing the complaining after the fact that the ham got permission for the antenna and Ofcom cleared him of any operating issues, is indeed a nightmare neighbor. I can understand someone having a hard time being polite to this idiot. Being elderly is far more likely to be the cause of the health problems than that ham station.

[@reggveg]

Stop looking up in the air and start enjoying your garden.

[@wd9ufo]

The same people that talk all day on their phones.

[@mm3nrx]

and imaginary friends...

[@rogeronslow1498]

Seven cancer patients around where his mast is! That may be true but they have absolutely nothing to do with his mast. We had a woman nearby complaining that a newly errected nearby cellphone mast was causing her skin to turn silver. She was very vocal about it and it even appeared in the local paper. It all stopped when the cellphone company disclosed that they hadn't yet turned on the site!.

[@lawrencebrown3582]

I bet these seven cancer patients are all in their 90s and heavy smokers/drinkers too. And it's his fault they've got cancer! 🙄

[@lomgshorts3]

I see nothing wrong with Martin's ham radio hobby. Whatever interference others may think they experience is due to cheap Chinese electronics that are prone to it.

[@theVizitor2012]

I've just put a 75 foot tower in my backyard but don't have the 7 element beam up yet. Holding my breath

[@douglasashworth5214]

Honestly I’d be fine with my neighbour having an antenna

[@pascalcoole2725]

I would damm well not !!!! It would interfere with my antenna !🤣

[@MobileRecordingsRo]

Our radio man should sue her for harassment, that would teach them a lesson.

[@itsmehi01]

Can't stand neighbours like Rose & Carol. Carol is a free skivvy for the council who needs to butt out

[@maxtivey32]

What sort of nutter fears an antenna, FFS??? Bloody whingers. And no, a properly set-up ham radio does NOT interfere with TV reception. I'd welcome a neighbour like Martin - not so those whinging,clueless women.

[@russlee130]

my neighbour 3 miles away with his 2m and 70 cm antenna stops my microwave from posting my letters on a Tuesday

[@davidrichter9164]

@russlee130-+ time to get the authorities involved. 😅

[@maverick5117]

😂😂😂

[@adammoss5284]

Tell the microwave to make a WiFi connection and send it all by email instead 😆

[@w8lvradio]

She's the epitome of all Karens everywhere, and exactly why we need legislation to STOP KAREN. Karen's aesthetic "opinions" are to be IGNORED. 73 DE W8LV BILL

[@johng1560]

She needs to mind her own business and I'm being nice

[@paulperry7091]

If only people had some knowledge of science, they would see a Yagi-Uda antenna like this, as a miracle, much like a rainbow. What harm can an antenna do?

[@jimsmowing223]

Fish and chips and a coffee once a month wow what rush😂💃

[@museonfilm8919]

No wonder she is looking for stuff to moan about!

[@boknows3841]

If you don't like it, don't look up. If you don't want it in your neighborhood, move!

[@williamogilvie6909]

Those busy-bodies are getting exercise they weren't getting before. Stretching their neck muscles to look up, walking around and nattering about his antenna. As Ham antennas go, it's a modest one. And now that he can lower it, they don't gave to look at it sometimes.

[@ironton655]

I had a neighbor call me on the phone once and tell me my radio was whipping out his TV reception and my radio wasn't even on at the time. He didn't believe me so I invited him over. I called his wife while he was here and ask her if the interference was still happening and she said it was, but he could plainly see my radio wasn't even on. We later found out the guy that installed his satellite equipment had not made good connections to it with the coax I repaired the connection for him and he apologized to me.

[@christopherkerr1693]

Poor guy

[@maryrafuse2297]

Canadian commenting. In Canada Ham Radio is an overall part of emergency communications in a vast country located on a huge continent. The busybody women in this story would find they do not have the right to intimidate this person who holds a legitimate license. In my neighborhood one person soon found out that federal law, protecting the rights of Ham Radio Operators, supersedes both municipal and provincial laws and covenants. Federal law, in Canada, eclipses all local laws when it comes to the contributions of these radio operators. As far as the beauty, or lack of beauty, of antennas it is a case of beauty being in the eye of the beholder! On the Atlantic Coast of North America we are subject to a tropical storm season. Five G Phone Coverage is great when it is working and the towers are upright, at times we need our good old fashioned AM Radio towers, so well fastened in place, and the presence of Ham Radio Operators in our communities. In summation Ham Radio makes me feel much safer from August to the end of October. It is worth so much more than little gardens and sight lines!

[@rodclark4485]

Very well said, Mary refuse. You live in a wonderful area of canada, I live in Ontario but have visited the East Coast many many times in my 70s and years I am also an amateur radio operator and we don't have any protection to guarantee that we can have an antenna in an apartment. I briefly had a 25-foot fishing pole antenna on my top floor balcony but the landlord quickly ordered me to take it down. Somehow he permits satellite dishes even though they are totally unnecessary

[@daveblackford6097]

I'm surprised no one has come up with an HOA community for hams, and amateur astronomers. I can just see the shared antenna towers, the neighbors actually have understanding how RF. interference, and light trespass actually do work, and being more interested in their neighbor's contacts, than getting them shut down.

[@kenenglish124]

I've been saying that for years. 👍

[@phillipsmiley5930]

No thanks i dont want my RX overloaded, if it matters to you that much, do what Broadcaster and Ham Art Bell did, move to somewhere like Pahrump, Nevada,

[@Chris558576]

Just seen this & cant stand people like her. I had a little quarter wave aerial in my loft for vhf reception, it was just cut to the dimensions & not tuned but my neighbour found out & banged on the door, said environmental health where informed & i was somehow causing him to hear a noise outside his flat. Some people just refuse to be educated about such things.

[@lordhoweproductions3733]

People need to learn to mind their business

[@rebeccastanhope3989]

Hell is other people - LOL

[@geterdonegranny1639]

Gezzzz, leave the man alone!

[@lynleyriini8416]

They should just let him be

[@joerobinson4898]

So people are not allowed to have a hobby sad lonely old people with nothing better to do leave the guy alone

[@Tintoycar]

If you can't hear him talking, it's ok.

[@tonypoloney8721]

I wish I had such a nice antenna. Some neighbour's suck.

[@adammoss5284]

I’m sorry but if it’s not causing a nuisance then these two ladies should keep their sticky beaks to themselves. Just wait till later generations arrive with their loud music blaring out - they’re going to be busy.

[@jahempress26]

Older people ask what happened to young people now a days but I say if you want to know what happened to the young people look at the old people this is so petty because they don’t like to see it they can’t understand that this man needs this but they cannot look over there own needs and what they think something should look like ,only comforting there’s 😏older people who supposed to be wise can’t come to a understanding 🤷🏿‍♂️shameless

[@mikeZL3XD7029]

Radio won the war for Britain, yet these old folks don't seem to recognise that fact.

[@michaelking9818]

Bit of national service would sort them out .

[@virtuitousvampire9371]

When she said how many died of cancer etc. Are you serious!? You live in a Neighbour of OLD people and for sure many have cancer. The antenna doesn’t cause cancer! These woman had husbands die for a reason...they gave up!

[@jborrego2406]

Virtuitous Vampire i hope no one tells her she can get throat cancer from wearing ur belt to tight, get cancer from drinking coffee they just did a study Let be real almost everything give u damn cancer just think all crap in the air An in food lol just enjoy life

[@samswoman2009]

The #1 risk factor for developing cancer? Getting old. Read The Science of Fear.

[@jackiegrant6410]

The chair person and his neighbors need to leave him,ALONE! There so,bored with there lives they're interfering with his! Omg....cats REALLY😂😂😂 Those old bitties need to get hobbies!

[@davidcurrie8564]

that is their hobby jackie! getting on folks Tits!!!

[@ZonkedCompanion]

My neighbours started freaking out when I put some LoRa nodes up. These same neighbours have 5g enabled phones and wifi 6 access points 😂

[@adammoss5284]

Freaking out over the tiny Lora antennas (by comparison) is a bit excessive. Maybe remind them that wireless is everywhere these days in many forms.

[@noelstaar]

The problem is that its a retirment community. People become hyper focused on their immediate surroundings. He's allowed to do what is legally allowed on his own property but he's going to have people complaining 24/7 because they have nothing else to focus on. The giant antenna could affect the resale value of the surrounding homes too

[@Garny1970]

She moved to a retirement community at 25 years of age?

[@dougtaylor7724]

He needs to remove the antenna and pursue his other hobby. A punk rock band. Lol

[@lon3don]

He's from Angola, so it would be 'Fado', Portuguese music at its worst!! Lovely, with monthly fish and chips. They'd be begging for "Meatloaf"

[@phillipsmiley5930]

Surplus RR RB211 jet engine in the back garden

[@Brenda-jf2pe]

There is a move afoot in the USSenate to stop HOA’s from banning Antennas! The reasoning is if they was a disaster man made or act of god, radio communications would be critical. That is they want to in courage people to be Ham’s! That is it could be a National security issue! Boy that has scared the you know what out of these arrogant Asses in HOA’s in the USA! I hope they pass the Law. JohnBoyUtah KJ7TBR😎🇺🇸📡🎙🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍🏻

[@radionutio81ij79]

If his antenna mast is accepted by the council planning dept then she has no reason to complain about the installation.

[@windseeker2357]

They should be old enough to remember when everyone had tv antennas on their house. With cable now no one has antenna now.

[@ledguy315]

As a fellow HAM, It looks good to me. She seems like a crazy ol bat the way she describes him at the begging.

[@christopherkerr1693]

Captain Mainwaring will be paying him a visit!

[@ameskelis9770]

put ur nose on ur bum ans smell it i cried 😭

[@teimonkauppa1002]

She is right but let him do his hobby

[@pacospain5042]

Nice hobby at least he do something most old people do nothing then sitting

[@w8lvradio]

No, she isn't right.

[@w8lvradio]

No, she isn't right.

[@anschiful]

OMG The Horror !! Got to love Old people LMAO!!!

[@littledikkins2]

I'm 70 and female and I'd tell those old bats to mind their own knitting!

[@davidcurrie8564]

@@littledikkins2 well said Auld yin!..

[@adammoss5284]

While they’re cursing him down they’re giving someone else a rest, but they’ve probably got nothing else better to do.

[@allanjohnson8139]

What as it got to do with you keep your nose out

[@mailinnrodriguez3209]

What a bunch of old bats

[@SuperCapsfan101]

Didn’t realize the UK had “HOA Karens.” Leave the poor guy alone! 73 de K3CXG

[@Radioaddict2200]

Epic antenna!!

[@diversionsinhistory]

Why would Rose care if Martin dug up his own garden or trimmed another neighbor's tree? It's also interesting that the mast is retractable, meaning it probably wasn't even up all the time. It looked cool anyway. Carol seems like a stereotypical busybody. Apparently, she just decided Martin was bad and so made it her personal mission to turn the community against him and get the antenna taken down, even though it didn't actually affect her at all, or really anyone else for that matter. When one thing didn't work, she would just make up something else. First there was the claim of interference, but the authorities found none, so it was onto the cancer story. I'm inclined to believe Martin's account because he straight up admitted that he told Carol "put your nose on your bum and smell it" (lol, good for him). He didn't squirm around trying to look angelic like those women did.

[@boknows3841]

I have 8 antennas, ll wonder how she would like to have me for a neighbor? I have a couple of 20m beams. They are twice as big as his antennas.

[@adammoss5284]

Just wait till the 3 ele for 160 goes up! 😆

[@Babytooth4]

GET OVER IT CAROL

[@nicktatters7523]

Our nabour had a huge mast installed and when he transmitted, and my mum had the vaccum cleaner switched on, you could hear the output induced on the motor winding 🤣

[@WR3ND]

I thought it was a bunch of funny old people with nothing better to do than complain about each other, but erroneously blaming that guy for killing people by giving them cancer is a step too far. It's alright to be stupid and it's alright to be angry, but it's not alright to be stupid and angry...

[@MirlitronOne]

It isn't in her back garden.

[@g4joe]

Wow, WTF is up with these people. 73's Martin.👍

[@steveroberts278]

Martin's neighbours are clueless ...

[@randyfox4611]

The nerve of that guy....doing whatever the hell he wishes on his own property.

[@pawetulski7115]

Free people in a free world. They can be harmful, they do harm. They are friendly and tolerant as long as others live like gray worms and do not stand out in any way. It amazes me that older people have so much time and energy to spend fighting with other people. Are there no other useful topics around them?

[@carnut6723]

This is hilarious. I'm in my 30s and just got my ham license not long ago. I never want to live in a place like this. I have my own property and home and have installed an EFHW antenna. I think people just like to complain. These folks need a hobby instead of attacking their new neighbor. He has operated ham radio for about 50 years and somehow within 1 year of moving into the community people around him start getting cancer? Wow. I wonder if they would have got cancer without the big antenna. "My TV don't work" okay, more than likely it's going to be Sister Sally's microwave from 1980 causing the interference versus an experienced ham operator using fully tuned, resonant antennas.

[@Ray-db5wm]

They have nothing else to do but complain.

[@nw7us]

She won't be there very much longer, so the issue is moot.

[@ironton655]

People just need to learn to mind their own business! Don't tread on me!

[@cybersean3000]

In the CRT television sets, there was a crystal which controlled the colors displayed on the screen. This was called the color burst crystal and it's resonant frequency was around 3.5 MHz. This frequency is also within the amateur radio frequency group known as the 80 meter band. So, when transmitting on the 80m band, TV displays would be disrupted by the radio signals. This problem was resolved DECADES ago, so for someone to make this claim is either lying or is using an antique TV. Since old CRT TV's cannot receive modern broadcasts without modification or additional external equipment, the complainers are lying. A cluster of terminal cancer cases, in a retirement community? What? Does Martin have cancer from doing this for over 30 years? Well then, get rid of your microwaves because the frequency uses is the resonant frequency of water, an abundant substance in a human body.

[@dxpirate5738]

The cancer is from the emf complaining on there sevral giger hert phones

[@maverick5117]

Get a life !! Leave this man do his hobby. In this life you get what you give ....

[@tbirdtelecaster7481]

I'm a ham myself, I think his antenna is nice but a little overkill in a small retirement village, wire antennas which are virtually invisible can do a pretty good job and not upset the nosy neighbours. I can get out all over the world on 14Mhz on just an end-fed half wave. No need for such a massive yagi antenna. Ham radio does not interfere with modern digital TV sets. I think the neighbours are full of it to be honest.

[@denelson83]

Herne Bay… I knew it. Kent.

[@phillipsmiley5930]

Icom land!

[@paulziminskin2ghr282]

Wonderful having KAREN's as neighbors . can never mind their own business..

[@o00scorpion00o]

The woman doesn't have to stand and look up at it every day but the other side of it is I live in the country and make do with an EFHW 49:1 wire antenna and it serves me very well, If I can hear them I can work them, a tower would be nice but it's true too that he might not be able to erect a 134 foot long antenna in the space he has, mine is mounted in a kid of sloping inverted L. I can't make my own tower so the cost of this + beam antenna is not justifiable for me. When not using the radio the antenna is connected to my Kiwi SDR.

[@paulziminskin2ghr282]

When I put up my triband yagi antenna up my next door neighbor said that it attracts radio waves thats why she gets interferrence ..Can u believe ?

[@zdravkofrenky2847]

Room antenna and dvb-t receiver - instead of buying a new TV

[@Billy2209-r2m]

Been a few years since this radio ham took his mast and antenna down , Has anyone heard anything on him ! Is he still on the airwaves

[@luporis2375]

He has FT8 logs on QRZ from 2 months ago.

[@Randy-z9j]

Did Martin check into the Amateur Radio Emergency Act of 2024? HOA has zero authority over Amateur Radio equipment, Antenna or structure. I'd check into that if it were me. N9ROI WRNA761

[@cpe111]

Clearly they have nothing better to do. What a bunch of busy bodies. I wonder if its really a problem with his antenna or his accent.

[@daryaionesco2634]

Carbuncle isn't a word you hear very often. I don't get what the big deal is with looks but you know we do have the internet now.

[@davidcurrie8564]

yeah and they are probably complaining on that too!...

[@ericzerkle8486]

I'm a ham and cber, and I relate😂

[@lynleyriini8416]

The steel pole thing is just a stand and the aieral is just a tv aerial that rotates

[@KQ4JGS]

Its a ham radio antenna.. Not a tv antenna.. Its for the 10 meter band.

[@Steven-re7xt]

Neighbor's a needing DRAMA. THERE BORED. THIS GOES ON ALL AROUND THE WORLD. EVEN IN A FREE PARK IN Dickson. TN. CHILDREN DO ORBITS ON ME IM 73 AN DISPLACED MAN and report jined up reports I'm ignored and don't. Want to play....this is a free park and I getting black marbles as i under stand you must petition the neighbor hood ...if you get a no that's it....iast time in overseas work I hid a wire in a flag pole and I'd well

[@VickiBrowne-yk4co]

Gee if it's not making noise why would you care..enjoy your garden..your animals..plant a tree..and ignore the old fool..

[@FriendBears]

To the nah sayers, please get a life. This hobby may INDEED save your LIFE!!! Don’t get your shoes in a trip!!

[@ryanmigliori9142]

I am on his side And iam.a ham.btw

[@allyburg7145]

Firstly I must declare I am a Ham radio operator. I sigh at video’s like this give us all a bad name, however there is always two side to the storey. The ham operator would need Planning Permission for this antenna and I,100% guarantee, it would not have been granted. An antenna of that type is totally inappropriate in this location. There are alternatives that could be used that would have no impact on the neighbours, but the operator would have to accept a small compromise in performance. With regard to Cancer this is a total load of rubbish they are no risks if the operator follows the licenced regulations. You are at more risk when using your mobile phone !! and that is small !! Interference to TV’s again if the radios are installed to regulations and it sounds from the Ofcom visit, they are, there would be no problems. Remember also if there was a problem it would only occur on transmission not at any other time so it can be easily monitored.

[@Viralhorsevds]

He has a cute hobby. She needs to mind her little business

[@lorettastiles6223]

My neighbor decided to have a radio also. The problem was that it cut in to my TV and I couldn't watch my shows. I could hear every thing he said through my T V. I told him and he had to take it down.

[@kenenglish124]

Talking to him would have been better, and the problem could be easily fixed.

[@w8lvradio]

I would have told you to get a new TV. Or move.

[@davidcurrie8564]

He must have had an Old AM CB radio they were well known for interfering with the tv antennas he has a Ham radio totally different thing altogether! there was a choke filter that could have been put on your tv £50p save the trouble.

[@travis-c5o]

UK = United Karens

[@ai5dd]

Hahahahahaha

[@MrBilbo44uk]

What horrible women, i also use CB radio and ham radio, had same issues over the years, these sort of people are clueless and dont knoe what they are talking about, always the same types too. Unfortunately the ham radio hobby is dying out as youngsters are not interested and old fools like these women are ruining it for guys like this who actually enjoy radio.

[@elfnetdesigns702]

Karens

[@joapple9389]

They are concerned about electromagnetic radiation. There are plug in switches in the wall that are suppose to repel the radiation. I feel U can complain to council regarding installing the illegal attenna and possible connections that does not meet residential standards. Older residents, I feel for you.

[@NickApostolakis]

This antenna is not illegal. This person is licensed and in addition to that the antenna was checked by the regulator.

[@davidcurrie8564]

away and mid your own business!! do the dishes or the knitting or something keep your nose to yourself!! there's no radiation coming off the antenna at all.

[@IFIXCASTLES]

Let's face it, a smaller less conspicuous antenna would work also. He's being unreasonable. Compromise would be nice.

[@phillipsmiley5930]

a smaller aerial is likely to increase RF at ground level, tell him to put it up another 50 ft

[@darlenealvarado2875]

A Eye Soar I wouldn't want that ugly Antenna in my front yard ,😡

[@lordhoweproductions3733]

He wouldn’t be putting it in your yard. People can do what they want on their land/yards

[@bubbleslahey5063]

Sore

[@phillipsmiley5930]

and who would you go to, if or should that be when, your phones and net go down