Arrested & Charged For LISTENING To A CB Radio

[@stakkerhmnd]

Another case of violent radio amateurs, using highly illegal TX/RX equipment, bashing up hard working law enforcement officers trying to do an honest job of upholding the law. This is why the DTI must hunt down all radio amateurs, confiscate all their equipment and get rid of radio ham callsign certification. Radio amateurs are behind most of society's problems and the sooner we lock them up in Strangeways the better. Leave the radio to professionals like me. There is a reason why I'm a radio professional and you lot are radio amateurs.

[@sandybottom6623]

CB radio operators are not Radio Amateurs.

[@ZA-mb5di]

And what about people using legal equipment?

[@mm3nrx]

go do one ya numpty...DTI lol hhhahha what a trumpet!

[@SocialistDistancing]

OK, that made me laugh.

[@RobR386]

I don't know whether to be offended or laugh at this comment, ham radio is a worlds apart from CB, we have to pass exams for a transmitting licence, that gives us a callsign and grants certain privileges depending on the level of licence you get. Also we're not the violent thugs you mentioned, ham operators are the most helpful and friendly, at least they are where I am, even CB wasn't that bad when I used to use it. It's a science hobby, I've done a lot of useful things with RF, in fact you have amateur radio to thank for your "professional" radio job, as it was experimenters in sheds that invented radio in the first place, so it all started as amateur. You've based your assumptions off of one bad actor and think the DTI should shut it all down... dream on, never going to happen 😊

[@carlospulpo4205]

This reminds me of the stories of the TV tax and the vans driving by homes with a detector that will pick up the fly-back transformer emissions to find unauthorized television sets.

[@msmith2961]

As a uni student in the early 'noughties', I received monthly knock-and-barge in visits from the Telly Tax blokes. They were always incredulous that I did not own a TV set. I ended up threatening legal action for harassment before it stopped.

[@CaribouEno]

They did this in Germany too in times where the TV ownership was not that big yet.

[@NOWThatsRichy]

And nowadays there are millions of people who have stopped paying the TV tax altogether!

[@lektrikzz8763]

Those were the bad old days when those highly paid investigators got away with some very dubious methods, and were quite blatant about it as they had the full support of the legal system. It reached a peak just before UK CB was legalized in 1981, presumably their incomes dropped after that.... now people happily post videos of themselves freebanding using 100 or greater watts. How times change.

[@chris20856]

The UK government was, is and will (most likely) keep being authoritarian. They only change is that back then, they policed the CB band now they policing tweets

[@bobroberts2371]

Were the CB bands used for anything else prior to being " legal" ?

[@lektrikzz8763]

@@bobroberts2371 In the UK there was only a few model control channels, licensed of course, which could suffer when conditions allowed Italian, US and other countries to interfere. The conditions around 1980 were very favorable to long distance and were a factor in the sudden rise in popularity of CB; people acquired an American market radio, installed it and heard Americans and were hooked...

[@bobroberts2371]

@@lektrikzz8763 Thanks. According to the net, we are headed to peak sun spot activity mid 2025

[@stakkerhmnd]

You need locking up, tbh.

[@ChoppingtonOtter]

The man was utterly correct to defend his family from strange men entering. Very suspicious that bruise lasted 10 months! All for nothing too. People were doing no harm using CB. It was enforcement for enforcement sake.

[@shangsty]

you get yourself killed doing that to somebody in america

[@spindriftbeach6082]

Exactly. Low power on 27 megs ain't gonna bother nobody

[@PsRohrbaugh]

Decades later and nothing has gotten better.

[@VanFlicke]

I still don't understand how the government can restrict what you listen to.

[@jeremycahill4662]

oi m8, yuo gotta loicense fer dat castle doctrine?

[@rutabagasteu]

I agree, that makes no sense.

[@shangsty]

@@jeremycahill4662 i don’t speak britan

[@andyalder7910]

Listen to 2:10 again.

[@engineeringvision9507]

Because previous generations were lazy and gave our rights away too easily, and because the state powers are like a ratchet noose that only gets tighter and tighter.

[@Crusty_Camper]

The Home Office people were idiots, and that's a technical term. At the time of the reported events, I was a senior officer in another government department. We had greater rights of entry than the Police had but would never go on a job like this without having the Police there BEFORE TRYING TO ENTER in case of a breach of the peace. For non-uniform people to just wander into a home is, and was then, ill advised and illegal in those circumstances. In a remote location, they were lucky they were not attacked very severely by the homeowner defending his house from unwanted and uninvited invaders.

[@engineeringvision9507]

It's a masterclass into how to get into a fight to the death with a knife, bat or gun armed home owner. They had every power except the power of common sense. Why such haste? Where's the radio going to go? 🤔

[@chris20856]

​@@engineeringvision9507 It's crazy what power does to people

[@JohnRunyon]

Greater rights of entry than the police? Must be for those TV licenses ;)

[@Crusty_Camper]

@@JohnRunyon Actually HM Customs ( NOT Borderforce)

[@stakkerhmnd]

You were a senior officer in the Weights & Measures department for the local council.

[@quietdignityandgrace]

Iowa, USA A few years ago I dusted off my father's old Cobra CB car radio. This was years after the FCC literally killed off Analog signals and made everyone go digital. I couldn't pull in anything. I don't know if it actually IS illegal or not over here. I googled it, they are NOT illegal, just outdated. The FCC stopped issuing licenses, and as long as you don't use a signal booster you'll be fine. Provided you can raise someone. Side note: Our home base set up could reach into Canada, Puerto Rico and parts of South America with atmospheric skip. Not bad for a 50' whip.

[@middleburg11]

If 23 channel they 1/2 channel off ....40 channel are all the same...

[@oojimmyflip]

last time i tried FM was in 1998 and it was totally dead except for a couple of people chatting on chanel 19 which seemed daft to me.

[@quietdignityandgrace]

@@oojimmyflip Keep it in storage... in case of war. Or an EMP. Yeah I thought 19 would have some traffic, even 9 the emergency channel was empty. Oh well, I'll be damned if I sell it to a hipster.

[@Antony_Jenner]

Around the same time in Australia everyone in the country areas and to some extent the city had a CB, where I lived on the York Peninsular the phone lines switched off at Corney Point at 9pm because the exchange closed for the night and the only contact was CB radio on a good night. I would talk to my girlfriend as she sat in a tractor on their farm from my car a fair distance away.

[@glenbeaver2784]

Anytime anyone in authority does anything ridiculously over the line you can expect them to double or triple down. To admit any wrongdoing is unthinkable. It becomes not the truthfulness of the charges, but the seriousness of the accusations.

[@rohnkd4hct260]

Even in this country, many law enforcement officials don’t understand “radio law.”

[@Francois_Dupont]

many people get stopped by the police for just walking around with a walkie-talkie.

[@bobroberts2371]

@@Francois_Dupont You mean the ones lurking around Nuke power plants, electrical sub stations, airports, water treatment plants. . . ?

[@JohnRunyon]

My dad has been pulled over for his (state-issued, completely legal, common enough to see on the street occasionally) radio operator license plate...

[@Francois_Dupont]

@@JohnRunyon what did they say?

[@stakkerhmnd]

Only in your mind...shame your mind doesn't work properly.

[@silkysilk1578]

As a child my parents were very involved in the illegal cb radio usage of the late 70s/early 80s. However my uncle worked as a tracker for British Telecom (we called them busbys). The animosity meant we had no contact with him for years and in fact there was a lot of anger on norh sides. I found the whole secrecy and cloak&dagger approach rather intoxicating. The whole thing was ridiculous looking back on it all.

[@michaelturner4457]

"Busby" was from that vile yellow bird Post Office Telecommunications/British Telecom used in their adverts. At the time British Telecom was still state owned, having only just been split off from the Post Office. Thatcher hadn't privatised them yet. And then later on the Department of Trade and Industry(DTI), took over the radio investigation work.

[@SpeccyMan]

@@OAPHarmerHerrStarmler That could be due to the simple fact you cannot easily put a carving knife in your pocket! Now obviously they could be secreted about your person in many other ways but, despite what people believe, the law isn't based on common sense.

[@greenpedal370]

@@OAPHarmerHerrStarmler Yup. I've know a cook locked up even though his knives were in a case! Interesting the official hysteria regarding CB but no one worries about rogue switch mode or PLT noise.

[@shadowcat314]

It's weird. People don't seem to put together fact that the increase in knife crime coincides perfectly with the influx of migrants from the third world. Would pocket knives have been made illegal if London looked like it did in the 60s?

[@esuohdica]

I seem to remember a CB radio magazine cartoon character called “Buck Fuzby”?

[@TheDoctorhuw]

I remember that case and several more like it. I was a very young electronics enthusiast back then, having lots of fun with imported CB's and some home brew kit too. I went on to have a long career, gaining a degree in electronic engineering, then at the BBC and spending 40 years in the entertainment industry repairing & designing electronic equipment. All thanks to those days back in the late 70's early 80's and CB. I’m now semi retired. and thinking about taking the exams to become a licensed operator. Thanks Lewis another fantastic video. I think Stakker Humanioid is just trying to be humorous! "maybe"

[@DoubleD20s]

This is a video that's worth watching twice: once for the narrative, and the second time for the lists of call signs, newspaper reports, details of vintage equipment, &c.

[@nndorconnetnz]

How is that not an abuse of power by home office officials? If they did that today they would be named and shamed publicly.

[@alanslade2319]

Just found your stuff and love your tunes. Love Cb ssb and thanks again AkA Night owl from Leighton buzzard near Dunstable. 🤔🇬🇧🍻💯👍

[@luvmechanix]

Will they also do this for a TV license violation or carrying a fork without a license?

[@acestudioscouk-Ace-G0ACE]

How times have changed, today there are no or virtually no prosecutions for CB or Amateur Radio offences.

[@joaodasilva8008]

We have to remember that there are more liberties in the States(US) than in England, in England you need a license to operate a TV set (includes streaming, watch or record BBC I Player, Sky or Virgin) and it cost around 159 pounds per household for a color TV and 53.50 pounds for a BW TV, so lets enjoy the liberties that we have in the States but in the States we have MANY MANY TV commercials and in England 0 commercials on BBC

[@raymondmartin6737]

So very sad to hear. But it has happened in the US too. I once read about a boy who had a 2 meter HT which while near a Police Officer, who transmitted on his Police radio, which the boy received his signal due to overload being nearby the boy's HT, and the boy, a ham, was accused of listening to the Police transmission. I don't know what else happened, such as where and when, as it is a bit vague otherwise in my memory of this incident. Ray W2CH

[@inthefar-queue6270]

Sadly, cops are not selected from the sharpest tools in the shed, and would have not understood about distortion and radio theory. They are just given the radios and given a rudimentary course on their use.

[@raymondmartin6737]

@Inthe Far-queue So true 👍, as an amateur radio operator for over 60 years, I have seen what you mean in many instances over the years, so be it I guess.

[@marksommers6089]

In U.S. It's legal to listen to Police Radio- You just cant transmit on police Frequency's - Thousands of Radio Scanners are sold Every year, Plus, I can listen to Police Radio on my Cell Phone, And Tablet -( Yes , There's Politicians, like People's Republik of Chicago Il., Komrad Mayor Lightfoot, Who would LIKE To ban listening to Police Calls, but She's Delusional )-

[@gerrym4377]

Genuine question: what is (was?) the basis for these radio offences? Why were they illegal? 👍

[@BBC600]

I feel this wasn't explained very well.

[@shangsty]

because government says so

[@inthefar-queue6270]

Everything which gave pleasure to the people was taxed, and BBC TV reception is STILL taxed.

[@michaelturner4457]

Because at the time, using a CB radio was illegal in the UK. CB wasn't legalised until December, 1981 in the UK, and only then with Home Office approved "CB 27/81" rigs

[@steveosshenanigans]

@@michaelturner4457 Quite correct also the illegal ones were using AM and the approved cb’s where using FM which if I remember correctly wasn’t as good

[@EgoChip]

You do need a license and have to use the correct equipment. I had a family member when I was little who was on the CB always playing a cat and mouse game (partly due to a neighbour understandably annoyed with TV interference) with the what was then the DTI. I vividly remember this because of how extraordinary it was. One day in the early 90's he came to my school (I was 6) with a carrier bag full of his equipment, it was really heavy and I could barely lift it. I had to take it to my nan's house after school, presumably until the dust settled. I didn't understand what was happening back then but since then I have come to learn that he had a power amplifier that was rated for hundreds of watts, when the legal maximum at the time was 4.I understand why this was a big no-no, because if the neighbours were getting TV interference then the signal could be interfering with all manner of other signals, including emergency signals. He was a bit of a dick for getting me involved.

[@randykitchleburger2780]

I mean, not really. It's not like he made you do something horrible. He did use you to hide his 👻radio amplifier 👻 but many adults use kids to take things back home to another family member

[@AB1Vampire]

Here in the US, NY State, Long Island area CB radios were used by Auxiliary Police ("AP") in the mid-late 1970's. AP's were funded by local townships and granted Peace Officer status but unarmed. In my area they were cop-wannabes and took it upon themself to police the CB Bands without any authorization by the FCC. My friends and I --CB operators all-- called them rent-a-cops and they were always using their squad cars to chase us down on our bikes which had radios mounted. We were kids. They ran me down one afternoon my father 'straightened them out' when he got home from work (those WW2 vets had a dark side that came out once & awhile LOL). Watching your video, I see that CB was bit more serious in your jurisdiction. Looking back, it seems silly. I realize it likely ruined some lives by giving people undeserved criminal records. Great channel, thanks for posting.

[@jacquesmertens3369]

5:52 Most lists end with 10-200, and this one has a few additional codes. Funny !

[@billconnelly4840]

Sounds like a bunch of bullies. Harassing a law abiding citizen. These bullies should be put in Jail.

[@ramjet4025]

Reminds me of Australia in the 70's when we could not afford or obtain US CB radio's so we modified old AM VHF commercial two way radios, from around 72 mhz to 27, that is, we divided the frequency by 3 , got Xtals cut, rewound the coils and turned them up using the tool of the day, a "Grid Dip Oscillator". We had "R.I"s or "Radio Inspectors" "raid" our homes. One day, I lost a nice Lafatte HE-30T and a box of expensive membership certificates, beautiful artwork and printing. These were lost forever, and for reasons unknown, the matter never ever went to court. Many of my friends were raided. On one occasion around 20 Pye Mark 3A radios in the process of conversion were seized, never ever heard the outcome but we got only more determined. Within a few years, those radios were SSB with 150 watt to mobile 500 watt amplifiers that would take up an entire trunk of a car. More later

[@alanslade2319]

Bloody madness all of it, the DTI are a law until themselves they got me in Luton when I had my pirate radio station pressure FM101.5, and they Took everything, but when we went to court I managed to get everyone’s records back except for my decks, and the transmitter, all good fun and if I had the chance to do it all over again I would, thanks for your work love it. Please keep up the great work it’s all so interesting Night owl from Luton .🍻🇬🇧👏💯👍👍👍

[@jonfr]

"Boldly harm" charge are normally total nonsense if they don't have anything else on a person.

[@justiceforall8574]

CB radio operators are very clever people we have to do swar reading and check the burners are ok, Also we have to check plugs and do electronics on cables and plugs.

[@a120068020]

In early 81 there was no such CB licence to "not have" so was the charge of using a transceiver without a licence a generic offence that included transmitting on a non authorised frequency (pirate).

[@jeffking4176]

I’m glad I’m in the US. A CB License cost me $4.oo , and anyone could get one by answering a simple questioner. Mostly about the rules and regulations. - The FCC, finally announced that no licensing was required for CB radio. 📻🙂

[@ligmasack9038]

you have NEVER needed a license to operate C.B. in the U.S.

[@spurgear4]

I think i now understand why my family moved from the old world to the new. Although its getting stupid here now too.

[@gpo746]

I bet they would have left sharpish if he ran back upstairs shouting " I'll get my gun" ....

[@Lachlant1984]

I have a few questions here? At this time these events occurred, was using CB radio illegal in the UK? Was it illegal to simply listen to CB radio transmissions? Did you need a license to use a CB radio? You describe the events when the authorities arrived at this person's home, but you didn't really discuss why they were there or what lead them there.

[@michaelturner4457]

Yup, at the time in Jan. 1980, possessing and using a CB was an offence in the UK. I believe even just the possession of a rig was enough for prosecution, and confiscation of the equipment. CBs at that time were smuggled(illegally imported) in from the USA usually. Legal CB didn't come to the UK until Dec. 1981, with approved FM only rigs, which could easily be identified by a "CB 27/81" mark on the front. And there was a CB Radio Licence as well, which was obtained from the Post Office. Also the UK legal FM CB channels and band were unique to the UK, rather than using the FCC AM channels.

[@Lachlant1984]

@@michaelturner4457 I see, thank you for explaining that. I suspect Ringway Manchester has done a video about this already, I don't think I've seen it though.

[@michaelkaliski7651]

It is still illegal to this day to listen to “unauthorised” transmissions, i.e. anything not specifically approved by the UK government. So licensed commercial radio and BBC broadcasts are fine, everything else is technically illegal without a specific licence or authorisation. Monitoring air band transmissions at an air display or airport is illegal, but the law is rarely enforced.

[@Lachlant1984]

@@michaelkaliski7651 It would be quite difficult to enforce such laws really. Does this law also cover pirate radio broadcasts? If so, that would be challenging for tourists who listen to the radio while visiting the UK, they're not going to know what's a licensed radio station and what's a pirate broadcast.

[@MadScientist267]

@@michaelkaliski7651 Come get me

[@COASTALWAVESWIRES]

Great video! Oh how I enjoyed those old CB days!

[@RingwayManchester]

Great to have you here!! Settling down later with your Karen update video :)

[@COASTALWAVESWIRES]

@@RingwayManchester been a big fan of your channel for a long time, I mentioned you a while back in my one and only pirate radio video when I was over in Europe working. All the best!

[@RingwayManchester]

Ah great I’ll watch that too!!

[@damiengirvan5020]

Great video.... I like to pause the video and read the newspaper articles and the 10 code and the club rules at the end were funny..... Lol.... The good old days....

[@damiengirvan5020]

Sweet..... Thanks RWM..... Hope to catch you on the band's sometime:)

[@atlanticx100]

In the video, you showed a "BTB" card we had for Reading as well but instead of "Bargain Town Breakers" we were "Biscuit Town Breakers" because of Huntley and Palmers.

[@chrono581]

Okay they were arrested for operating on Citizens Band in the states that doesn't require a license is Britain different if that's how you treat people for operating on CB I am glad I live in America

[@GrouchyHaggis]

Produced a bruise 10 months after the incident and a judge thought that was ok? Jeez...

[@smorrisby]

Sounds like he was poorly represented.

[@spindriftbeach6082]

Absolutely.lawyers in the UK are useless. They just sit down with opposing counsel over a drink and decide between them. They decide not the defendant, judge or jury

[@smorrisby]

@@spindriftbeach6082 I've seen that work 1st hand. I was in a lawyers office waiting to see my lawyer about some immigration consulting for my business. A lawyer from my chambers was talking to a lawyer from another chamber discussing a case . They were laughing, joking about the respective clients they were both representing, oblivious to my presence.

[@gamlemann53]

I remember in the seventeens, I got a control on my cb radio from the gais! In that time you was not allowed to use a GP antanna as a transmitter antenna on the roof. But I had 2 antenna outlets on my radio, and when they entered in my house for control me, of course I had my vipantenna on, and my GP antenna disconected. After they leave, I of course put on my GP antenna.and continued transmittng on my CB-radio.( a Tokay PW404 with 4 channals and only 4 w. am.The good old days Lewis! Thank's for the video! The best to you from LB1NH 🙂

[@ericgautreaux1752]

This is wild. Here in the USA,to use a cb,all you had to do was fill a post card to get license. But this was the 70's. I don't believe you even need a license for a CB these days.

[@DrWho453]

Wow, you mean you had to have license to run a cb radio in the UK. I had a CB in my car and home here in the US when I was growing up in the 80's and never needed a license. I had some friends who also had some ham radios which did require a license and they had them for the ham but it wasn't needed for the CB. I miss those days sometimes. I enjoyed the cb radio.

[@techtinkerin]

I imagine this might have turned out worse in Texas..

[@inthefar-queue6270]

👍

[@belstar1128]

But the cops wouldn't have showed up since what he was doing was legal in Texas.

[@adama7752]

You got a (tv/life) license for that ! The state truly owns those people

[@black5f]

I remember those days. The comparison with now ... teachers being prosecuted for confiscating phones from kids is astounding.

[@KiwiCatherineJemma]

The story goes, that back in the 1800's, in certain jurisdictions , The High Kicking Dance "The Can-Can" was outlawed. The excuse given at the time is that the high kicking women and their raised skirts were exposing the knickers (or perhaps lack of...) and therefore it breached "indecency laws". However it's said that in many jurisdictions even just the music itself was banned. Stand in a park playing a piano accordian and some official would turn up to arrest you. ("Hang on, is that a B flat followed by an A and a C sharp ? Oh dear, we better get some cops and some highly paid civil servants out there to investigate !") Never trust the government when they say they haven't got enough money to spend on essential infrastructure, or healthcare and elderly care programmes.

[@andrewdewar8159]

do you mean impossible for it to open inwards ?

[@inthefar-queue6270]

Entry doors are designed to only open one way. Security. You would have to replace the whole door frams and door jamb to make it open the other way. The person who said it opens both ways is either untrained or an idiot.

[@andrewdewar8159]

@@inthefar-queue6270 I think it is an error meant to say impossible to open inwards

[@0therun1t21]

It's called CITIZEN'S band for a reason, wtf! I don't understand why they're so weird about it over there, here in the U.S. everyone who wanted to had one in their car or home, nobody cared. They made the road safer. My mom had one too. We also had a police scanner when she was a cop, now it's all public and online, thank goodness.

[@ProdigalPorcupine]

We're not 'weird' about it. We have AM, FM and SSB modes with (I think) 120 channels. All licence free. There's nothing 'weird' about a country pursuing people using transmitting equipment built for a frequency allocation from another country, the US would have done exactly the same if for example Australian UHF CBs had flooded their market.

[@0therun1t21]

@@ProdigalPorcupine Oh, I see, thank you for the explanation, much appreciated. I see in other comments now that emergency services relied on it and illegal operators and people in other countries were interfering, I don't think there's anything weird about doing something about that. We used shortwave for emergency services instead and left the CB for amateurs.

[@oojimmyflip]

@@0therun1t21 back in the 60s and 70s no one cared in the UK until the goverment interfeared selling AM to the emergency services. Thats why it became an offense to use an AM rig in the UK. before that no one really cared.

[@jonb3311]

There was a kind of CB madness back in those days. I lived in a small Kent town, that had a CB club, with 3,000 members. Surrounding towns had similarly large clubs. There were so many people broadcasting in a small area, that some of them ran 100 watt or more transmitters, just to get over the noise and speak to someone in the next street. Some people had their aerials attacked in the small hours by upset rivals! At least 2 people were assaulted, one with an axe. All because people wanted to talk, mostly bollocks.

[@GOINGNOMAD]

🤣 yes mostly about if you can hear me, how many pounds am i giving you, where are you, what i did today, watched on tv and had for tea.

[@FoneStar78]

There was a time when I wanted to visit the UK. Now I don't think so... seems like there's lots of stupid laws, stupid taxes and busy bodies causing problems for people. Almost impossible to legally own a gun and few places to hunt. If I brought my metal detector and found anything cool I would likely be forced to hand it over to the government.

[@ProdigalPorcupine]

Well, we don't have home owners' associations, and we don't like guns and people slaughtering our wildlife, or our school children, for that matter...

[@Raidr44]

Fascinating, how some people feel sooo superior. With their "we don't have home owners associations", well, neither do we, well, I suppose some do, very few. Not sure where they got that. "We don't like guns" of course you don't, the government will tell what you like, want and need. Reminds me of a young man who can't get girlfriend but "I don't like women anyway". Oh, okay. Morally superior because "people slaughtering wildlife " we pay people to kill for our meat, that makes us better than you Americans 😉. As far as mass shootings are concerned, my friends in the U.K. will agree, you have mentally ill people and terrorists committing crimes all the time. Methods may vary but dead is dead. Government can't stop that unless they have absolute power over everyone at all times, which is what government strives to do, constantly. No HOA, you live a national HOA and don't even know it. Enjoy your life, such as it is. I do enjoy mine.

[@stuartvaughan8599]

Hi Lewis. Another great video. I realise you use a lot of stock footage but the two Post Office officers in this video are Brian Williams and Jim (William) Crow. Brian is the one on the left. It is not Peter Gooding. Sorry if you already know this. All the best. Keep 'em coming!

[@RingwayManchester]

Ah right ok, I was told it was gooding! Cheers for the correction Stu!

[@crosisofborg5524]

I can’t even imagine paying a tax to use airwaves.

[@ManuelPinner]

I'm Glad that I live in the US where We can Listen to All Radio Communication Systems! Also here in the US We are Allow to beat the Live 💩💩💩💩 out All intruders that Come in Our Homes in the US, even Deadly Force is Allowed!

[@SocialistDistancing]

Great pics included. In Canada, cb is pretty quiet except for skip and free banding.

[@Joe3pops]

Ten months later the home office official still had a bruise? That's horse sh#t.

[@jedisgarage4775]

I don't understand why he was arrested in the first place. To operate CB radio you don't have to have any licences. What was the isse?

[@RingwayManchester]

CB was illegal in the uk pre November 1981

[@jedisgarage4775]

@@RingwayManchester I did never know that. For what purpose it was sold then? Who could use it?

[@stephengreen3566]

In America, at least in my house, anyone entering without identifying themselves will die shortly of lead poisoning.

[@jberry1982]

Mr gooding walked into any American house unannounced he wouldn't lived to testify I'd dropped his ass

[@ucitymetalhead]

I remember finding a portable cb radio when I was young and trying mostly unsuccessfully to pick up transmissions.

[@washburn8049]

When illegal CB landed in the UK, one of the gripes from the authorities was that CB would be used by the criminal fraternity to communicate with each other. With mobile phones and burner phones used by our not-so-friendly drug and gang members, I think that view was somewhat short-sighted.

[@KingKatRider]

This is why we own pitbulls here in the US. By the way could you all file a petition asking Prince Harry and Megan to come back home...Just askin.

[@inthefar-queue6270]

Sounds like the US is sick of their whining and carry-on! You let them in so you can keep them!🤣Seriously, you could ask them to go home, or deport them.

[@ModMokkaMatti]

I'm not big on pitbulls, but I sure am all for giving that weasel and his witch wife the boot out of the US.

[@michaelturner4457]

Couldn't someone get the POTUS to make an Executive Order, to get Harry and Megan deported?

[@GhostOfLorelei]

Imagine government officials being required to follow the law… Really glad they sorted that on appeal.

[@GeorgeWMays]

Tireless public servants.... Did I miss what the crime was that drew the attention of these bureaucrats?

[@drivewasher]

Did you mean to say the door would not open inwards?

[@mindblast3901]

Great video Lewis rember this Cb days

[@VanishingNomad]

Not arrested and charged for listening, but for illegal TRANSMITTING.

[@RingwayManchester]

He didn’t transmit but was rather told to plead guilty to the accusation.. listen

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Does the term *_"GOVERNMENT OVERREACH"_* ring a bell?

[@Frank5]

It’s good CB’s no longer require a license.

[@georgekrpan3181]

The same sort of behavior by the UK authorities during the "pandemic". The UK is way different than the US in this respect. There's no way they'd get away with it here in the US.

[@furzkram]

But why was it illegal what he did if it has been CB radio? I don't get it.

[@MSMediaRotterdam]

When Radio Caroline and other offshore radiostations appeared, a law saw daylight to prohibit listening to these stations. Not only hilarious but quite a violation of the basic human right to receive information indeed.

[@joemason9187]

Plus great vid as usual

[@kevinh96]

So he wasn't arrested and charged for just listening to a CB radio, he was arrested and charged for using an unlicensed receiver and for assault. Quite different from the way you've titled it.

[@sandywilson7068]

I was charged with operating a CB without a license, by lying police, despite my rig being completely disconnected from power and antenna. My solicitor advised to plead guilty due to the police report, which was pure fiction and said that the rig was on and on channel 19. In court the sheriff was unhappy that my case was put in front of him as he felt it was trivial (and let the police know it) but that he would have to fine me. I was fined £20, so I asked to pay in installments, which was granted😁

[@albawest]

need a ham radio license for sure but NOT for cb every trucker should be arrested they needed police with a warrant of entry home office warrant is to SEE and EXAMINE gear NOT entry

[@tinytonymaloney7832]

How can the home office monitor what you listen to? Didn't know such equipment existed. A bit heavy handed though, I would have given the home office bastards a few bruises if they had just walked into my house.

[@commodoresixfour7478]

Thank god I live in America. But even here freedom is under attack, I just think it's easier to fight for it here.

[@ProdigalPorcupine]

You seem to have a warped view about what it's like in the UK., especially if you're basing it on these videos about illegal CB use 40-odd years ago! Contrary to what some Americans think, you don't have a monopoly on freedom, we do have it here as well.

[@caulkins69]

@@ProdigalPorcupine You have freedom? Tell that to the 3000 Britons who are arrested every year for offending someone on social media.

[@ProdigalPorcupine]

@@caulkins69 I won't defend that, I agree it's disgraceful. However, I could probably come up with plenty of examples of overreaching and faulty legislation in the US as well. Let's face it, neither of our countries have true freedom. The UK is a decent place to live, but it's not perfect. Political correctness is off the scale, especially in Scotland at the moment.

[@hexadecimal7300]

Ah those heady days of youth with your AM CB radio up on the Pennines talking to all sorts of people. Got boring once it was legal (Did AM ever get legal?) . I had to start work so dropped doing it.

[@shangsty]

if that happened in america and they didn’t identify themselves or announce their entrance at least they would have prolly been shot at

[@annax5212]

1979 got raided at my house by the police at age 12 .AM Radios and burner on the desk but they did nothing ....they took my 2.2 rifle

[@startedtech]

Sounds like a sham trial.

[@robertusa1234]

Only in the UK a so-called free country

[@1966gtoguy]

Amazing how little freedoms people have in the UK.

[@loc4725]

People here rarely fight for their rights, so they just whittle away. 😔

[@ProdigalPorcupine]

The UK is a very free country. This was 43 years ago when we hadn't yet legalised CB radio. There was previously no demand for it, and when illegal US AM CB radios started flooding the country, we very quickly legalised our own system (FM). We now have AM, FM and SSB.

[@1966gtoguy]

@@ProdigalPorcupine I guess your idea of freedom and mine are very different.

[@ProdigalPorcupine]

@@1966gtoguy We’re not allowed to carry firearms on the street here, but apart from that, what can’t we do here that you can in the US? I’m genuinely curious.

[@1966gtoguy]

@@ProdigalPorcupine You have little to no actual free speech, when people post things on twitter and the police can show up at your door that should worry you so no 1st amendment, as you stated you have no 2nd amendment you can't even carry a knife, and no 4th amendment. You were more forcibly locked down during covid also.Don't get me wrong we all are losing our rights some more quickly than others.

[@jimf1964]

This is stupid. Even in England you can’t get arrested for just listening, and unless they were somehow broadcasting, there isn’t a way to even be caught. He was arrested for the fight. Why they showed up was something dodgy. Stupid English law, and abuse of, but not because someone was just listening

[@ProdigalPorcupine]

Stupid English law? Do you think there should be a free for all on the radio spectrum? Every country has laws regarding use of he radio spectrum. Enough people showed an interest to get CB radio legalised, and now it's licence free and we have AM FM and SSB.

[@jimf1964]

@@ProdigalPorcupine obviously there are certain areas of the spectrum that should be restricted for police, air traffic etc, but do you think air waves are owned by someone?….but you’re English. You wouldn’t get the idea of feeedom

[@ProdigalPorcupine]

@@jimf1964 You're right, we have no idea what feeedom is... We have CB radio, the usual ISM licence free bands, Ham radio and a licence free low power UHF allocation, analogue and digital. what point are you trying to make about the radio spectrum?

[@noneyadamnbiznezz]

Holy Hell…I dont know the legalities in the UK about Law Enforcement and entering a persons home with or without a warrant, so I will not say what Mr Fox should or should not have done. As for me and my American ass, the INSTANT the first man stepped across my threshold WITHOUT presenting said warrant and handing it off into my hand, I probably would have seen my last sunrise because I am stepping into cover, drawing my sidearm and let my training and experience take over my body as my little world goes kinetic. As soon as they try to force their way into my home, are clearly armed, and try to impress the threat of violence upon the people I love and are under my protection if I don’t comply with their demands. The threat they pose to my family and anyone inside my home at the time is what will ultimately culminate in two or three of the trespassers or tyrannical assholes never again to see their friends and family! Without that warrant under most circumstances, they become criminals with the training and abilities to inflict grievous bodily harm on their victims. I will not allow anyone under my protection to become more of their victims. As long as I still hold oxygen in my lungs and my can get a steady and smooth squeeze on the trigger.

[@MadScientist267]

I'd have been damned. If it's in the air, you have nothing to say about what I do with it. You don't want me "listening" to a given band, figure out how to protect it so I can't get at it. If it's open, I'm gonna tell you to piss off and do what the hell I want.

[@gonzinigonz]

Crazy days, still have the memories of all this going on. I sold the Midland 100m i had left from back then last year.

[@oojimmyflip]

its probably an antique now.

[@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069]

I got a visit for using Am in 1983 all they did was tell me to take my Ariel down , and get rid of the rig , a superstar 360 it was never saw them again

[@desbelfastireland9982]

THANK YOU

[@crosisofborg5524]

Ladies and gentlemen, this is why we kicked King George’s butt.

[@terryjwood]

I never knew was "10-400" meant -- until now! 5:51

[@thisandthat871]

Wow Good story Very interesting so I'm assuming that CB at that time was illegal to use?

[@michaelturner4457]

Yup, in Jan. 1980, CB was illegal to use in the UK.

[@gerrywoody4301]

The bbc still do this to little old women for tuning in to 50 60 year old repeats

[@jonathankleinow2073]

5:00 Not the subject of the video, but I think it's hilarious that a baby saying "shit" as her first word was worth a call to the police and a story in the local paper. The reporter also decided it was worth noting that she was a "TEENAGE mum" for some reason. Ah, the 80s.

[@oojimmyflip]

I didnt know FM CB radios were illegal, perhaps you are speaking of AM you dont make this very clear, the pics your showing are of a legal at the time FM rig, for which there was no specific license required in 1981. Some big homebase rigs were both AM and FM like the president and Jumbo rigs of the time but soley FM mobile rigs Like Midland and cybernet were license free . The Cb community were in those days predomanatly good people who just helped other people out and were friendly CB was the messenger or whatsapp of the time. its a great pity it faded away when the frequencies were changed again by goverment and mobile phones took over.

[@RingwayManchester]

In the United Kingdom, CB radio was first legally introduced in 1981, but had been used illegally for some years prior to that. It was legalised on 2nd November 1981. This story took place in January 1980. So no, I’m not speaking of AM.

[@SuperCanuck777]

Busbys we use to call them in the late 70's - early 80's. after some stupid british telecom tv commercial or something.

[@murphychris9811]

that list of im guesssing names one of them was muffdiver made me laugh

[@CONCERTMANchicago]

Wow advertisement for a blue laser antenna rated for 500 watt peak output

[@JediBuddhist]

Thanks. ☘

[@peterfitzpatrick7032]

The legal eagles made their money, thats all that mattered, he may have had his fines reduced but his appeal had to be paid for... more money in the trough for the solicitors (some of whom become barristers & eventually judges... ) 😒