1. Radio signals just won't interfere with the power.
2. Radio signals wouldn't interfere with properly shielded coaxial television cable. If they haven't properly shielded it, that's their fault because radio signals are so ubiquitous that they're bound to absorb some other signal instead.
3. Ham radio operators don't broadcast on wavelengths that are already in use by ordinary radio stations.
if i were your neighbor i would fuck up your t.v. and beat your ass. whining bitches.. i guess people were fuckers back then too... call the wambulance on the ham radio operator pussy.
Sadly, this is the case with many people, as soon as they have any problems with their radio or television, the nearest radio ham gets the blame. In most cases, it is the crappy television or radio that is the problem, and not us who are using transmitting equipment that has been tested properly.
whatever!! hams are not bad in this situation you just work out in a peacfull manner you dont get all ticky!! and i hate the name ham= bad... ham radios are the future and your past!! cb and commercial radio and tv wouldnt exist without ham radios!!!!!!!!
whatever has are not bad in this situation you just work out in a peacfull manner you dont get all ticky and i hate the name ham= bad... ham radios are the future and your past cb and commercial radio and tv wouldnt exist without ham radios!
whatever!! hams are not bad in this situation you just work out in a peacfull manner you dont get all ticky and i hate the name ham= bad... ham radios are the future and your past!! cb and commercial radio and tv wouldnt exist without ham radios!
This happened to our TV when I was a kid; we had to send away for some Drake filter box for the antenna. As we found out, the majority of the time, this was the fault of the receiving equipment, not the ham radio transmitter; I think the FCC standards for OOB signal rejection got better over the years. It didn't cause the lights to flicker, or, for that matter, the picture to be squeezed down to a 16:5 aspect ratio, thought ;-)) .
Not much of a problem anymore since cable and Sat TV, and now digital over the air. Actually CBers were more often the cause of TVI after CB's introduction in 1958 and rapid mass popularity starting in the 60s. It wasn't 'til about 1974 when helped by Barry Goldwater, the electronic consumer industries were required to employ filters in their consumer equipment, thus lessening the instances of interference from transmitter sources. It's best to have a cooperative attitude if this happens to you
I HATE people like that... EVERYTHING that goes wrong- Your DAM Antenna! My Phone or TV etc isnt working right cause of you.. Im going to sue!! Im calling the FCC! Ignorance=Reason for execution :-)
we need a good hurricane to show people that the wonders of technology as they get more cmplicated are more able to not work...screw the TV nothing good on it anyway..lol
Hmm... that antenna may be tunable to 2 meter or 70 cm ... but it's usually CB (the old 11 meter band) that causes interference... and only when really poor quality coax is used. Still, the TV is a part 15 device. :)
All in all, a cute, if misinformed, clip. Yes, I am a ham ... but I do have a sense of humor.
could have fooled me, that antenna looks like a tv antenna for vhf and uhf tv. possibly you could tune a 2 meter rig to that but in most cases u only need 5 watts or less. which i doubt would bother ur tv and cause ur lights to flicker. i would call an electrician before your house burns down from an overloaded electrical system.
According to FCC rules: ''If your neighbor complaining about front end overload in your neighbor's television receiver. He is the one who is responsible for taking care of the interference''
Most certainly about 40 Years ago or earlier this interference could have and did happen. In the cases when it happened, the radio operator didn't even know about the interference. Today, it is almost non existent anymore! Radio Amateurs have to worry more about getting interference from non licensed services while relaying emergency traffic. If a disaster strikes, the TV's will be dark but the same that complained may now welcome that Amateur next door.
Wont matter so much with the band adjustment to digital, and shielded HDMI/Coax. I was told by my uncle though, who is a ham, keep the power down when I get my license as I live in an apartment. He has worked the world with 5 watts.
I love the ignorance in this video... Lights don't flicker (if you can even call that flickering, more like poorly done dimming) when a HAM radio is in operation. If their TV is having problems then its a cheap TV that has no filters on it.
I have a general license and also enjoy citizens band. Both services have their wackos and lids, and ALWAYS have!!!!!! Code, No Code, Back Then, Nowadays; THERE WERE ALWAYS WACKOS AND LIDS ON THE AIR.
Nothing's changed except technology keeps getting cooler! SDR, digital sound card modes, microwave, all kinds of cool stuff.
The only thing i'm against in radio are:
1) proprietary, closed protocols (D-star)
2) protocols that don't check for traffic before xmitting (WINLINK)
Thats why i got out of CB. Too much bad language and idiots with high power as well as the truckers why think they can talk anywere they want to, regardless if anyone was talking on the channel or not.
In most cases, television interference like this is caused by cheap low-quality co-ax feeding into the TV, and given the obvious ignorance of the residents in that house it would seem unlikely that they would have seen the value in paying extra for proper screened cable, and seek to blame the amateur radio enthusiast for interference that is their own fault! Besides, it is ridiculous to think that the lights would flicker as a result of RFI! Silly film! Very misinformative.
@killerdalek Dude, This is from the Early 60's. That wire he is looking at is 300OHM twinlead. Cable TV wasn't introduced until later, and not Nationwide until the mid to late 70's..
If you are going to comment acting like you know it all, please know it all.
This is Classic....Loved that show and happy to see it here.
@kc0rey My comments were intended to put the film into the context of the present day. By the way, there's no apostrophe in 60s or 70s. Also, capitalising 'nationwide' is inappropriate, and an 'apostrophe s' is never correctly used to denote the plural, you ignorant bitch!
@killerdalek My wife's bedroom lamp flickers from RF interference. The lamp has a touch sensor on its metal body to allow cycling through several levels of brightness and to turn it off. When ever I transmit on HF the lamp changes to the next dim level until its off then starts again bright - drives my wife potty. I was kind of wondering if my neighbours had such lamps would get freaked out in middle of the night by the lamp seemingly having a mind of its own.
@killerdalek You are absolutely right. I never had an amateur radio but I have over the years built some elaborate antennas for shortwave listening which have caught the eye of some. Whenever neighbours complained, I found it was best to be a good neighbour and help solve their reception problems instead of just arguing my case. They tend not to complain after that.
@pitcalco I don't blaim a lot of people looking for the most "likely" source, I would! Saying that HAM operators don't generally cause interference to frequencies outside of the amateur spectrum. #
So while they may be causing the fault to "appear" they are not at fault. This has been the case with some car alarms sensitive to signals on amateur bands.
Luckily most of us should know how to help people who are having difficulty with other devices receiving signals!
This interferance can be fixed for about 2 bucks. No big deal.
Hams have Federal licences and can put supressors on the TV, radio, telephones to keep your neighbor happy. It's mainly 10 meters that cause the problems. CB's (NOT HAMS) do more damage by running illegal with more power then anyone. KF4VZU
Taking my tech test Monday. Used a CB in the 70s. Haven't used one since. Theres no code requirement for any of the classes. Code kept me out of it,. I don't if I will ever really get into, we'll see. Kinda old news, not what it once was.
KJ4KVG..you must be a CB'er turned ham the way your talking. Cb'ers not only are ignorant assholes who thru liberal intervention in washington that let anyone who can turn a radio on become a ham, has now ruined the pleasure for decent people who didnt swear and play music or talk about sexual things as they do now on the ham bands. For years the Cb'ers cried they couldnt copy the code so now washington brought these morons to the ham bands after passing a law for a code free ham license. Thanks
No. You said that Technician class didn't need code BEFORE the code free ham license. You should be more careful as to how you express yourself.
In that you are absolutely wrong. When I went into amateur radio (1975), code was required for all amateur licenses. There wasn't even a waiver for those with hearing or other disabilities that prevented them from learning the code.
Your full of crap. And thats why the ham bands are now polluted with illerate morons because they dont need to take a code test but simply memorize the answers to questions. 90% of hams were against the no code licensing process because they knew what would happen and it eventually did. A complete takeover of morons that dont know a tube from a transistor,only that they are running a full gallon and thats what counts good buddy.
Your the idiot because you pay corporate thieves who loot and control the air waves so you can go dit dot..... The FCC is nothing but a corporate thief... If I was you I would piss on that license or use it for toilet paper. Your full of shit..No CB'er in his right mind would want that.
And fatkinson1954, I shouldn't have to express it fully, obviously JimmyDistant is referring to February 23, 2007. In that I would be correct.
Lol your right Red >> Morse Code is out fucking dated. Very few peopl use it an its just a matter of time until the fcc drop the old time morse code an there wil be no need for it any more.Just like when back in the 60s the fcc gave cbers part of 10 meters all because the hams was not useing the band and now still today they cry about that. JIMMMY bottom line if you dont like whats going on do something about it dont just get on youtube an argue with folks about ham this and ham that.
You are a old fart to be carring on an on about nothing you are dong anything about. last time i check the bands that the no code tecs are useing are barely being used by hams, so why not drop the code an open up the band to people that really want a tec lic an want to get off theyre butts and enjoy the fruits of ham radio.
you and the other morons sitting on their butts are welcome to anything above 2627mhz. Hows that? and if you dont like that get some coffee cans with string attached to it and give them to your friends so you can swear and tell dirty jokes and play the guitar all you want and you wont be interferring with anyone else. Now thats an offer you idiots cant refuse.
I have to agree with Red, your a dipshit. The only problem with Ham radio is idiots like you who think CB'ers wanted no code. Your a fucking joke if you have a ham license.
No, code was previously required for all licenses (technician included). I know because I had to have code credit when I upgraded from novice to technician. I got my novice in 1975 and upgraded all the way to advanced class by 1976. Of course, I had the benefit of electronics school working for me. But I had to do the code on my own.
I upgraded to extra in 1990 (when they still required twenty words per minute code for the Extra).
This is sadly hilarious, hams who are known for providing communications as a public service during emergencies, are labeled as disruptive evil-doers. It's an interesting study in the power and methodology of negative propaganda.
not trying to cause a fight or take sides im a cber and im working on geting my ham liscence but anyway... if a cb is set up correctly (which most cbers dont know how to do) it shouldn't couse any more or less interference than a ham radio or a cb
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Gotta love all these "Ham Radio" Oddballs still trapped in the 60's and thinking they are something important. They aren't, it's just a bunch of old men trying to convince themselves they did something in life.
Well, look at it this way, in Indiana last winter when all of the means of communication went down we were the riding with emergency crews and with 911 providing radio comms that NO BODY ELSE HAD saved at least 20 peoples lives during the time....oh well KJ4NFU Steven 16 years old
I had a ham radio operator living next to me. I made toast one morning and his picture appeared on all of my toast. Furthermore, I was washing clothes and I heard his voice in the washing machine. Appalling!
listen to what the kid kkentdude has to say, as i do. especially when disasters occur and cell phone circuits are down or jammed is where ham radio operators volunteer their services. these are things that are happening 'behind the scenes' where most people don't know is going on. So the dude goes over to talk to the hams. here, to be helpful to dude, the hams offer to install filter circuitry (which is NOT built in the TV or Radio) so that the interference does NOT happen! N7HBR
This video=bad resolution. Let's see how you take to ham radio if you ever need help and were the only ones around able to communicate to get you help!
well im sorry to say but if your opinion is based on this its completely false i've now had my license for about 3 months and have talked to alot of people and my class teachers after hearing about this effect and the teachers said that this is almost non existant any more due to better technology and better antenas so please if this is your opinion why don't you join up and take a class and learn about us HAMS and than form an opinion
This is a scene from the Twilight Zone television show (season 5, episode 138, Jan 1964), with those in the house next door with antennas not actually Amateur/Ham Radio operators. Instead, the occupants were aliens transmitting with massive power to their home planet far in space. They also rode motorcycles and wore black leather jackets, with one falling in love with the girl walking into this scene at 1:24. Their goal is to destroy Earth, but the girl easily persuades that one alien not to.
and yes, your correct. 1500W MAX but use only as much is necessary under that amount. (I rarely use the full 100W my radio can use)
There was one guy in seattle (i',m in portland) he would use like 1000 watts to get into a local repeater (in seattle) he would key up 4 other repeaters including one in portland and salem oregon
a little factoid - Ham radio and CB radio are and alwayse were different. Ham radio uses different frequencies than CB radio. If someone with a CB radio does this......they are operating illegally. their radios don't put out enough power to do this unless they are using an illegal amplifier.
Japan was worked here using an Audio King mobile antenna on a fire escape and a Uniden SSB CB modified for 10 meters.If I recall,A pc166(133?) mobile. N2NXZ
Another thing: I think it's funny when a CB'er tells me he can run 50,000 watts with his supercharged generator, plate-modulated radio and cubical quad and talk to someone across the country. Then he gets mad when I tell him I can easily talk to someone in Europe from North America using just 100 watts, a grid-modulated transceiver and a wire dipole!
I once worked France on 26.915Mhz from Florida. Not exactly CB, but damned close (on 400Watts) it was on a Superstar 3900 and a Palomar 450 driving a Freightliner at 70Mph.
If you use morse code or PSK/RTTY (basically high speed morse code) you can talk even farther. Ive talked to several guys in Spain using 20 watts on an inverted V. It's just beeps....easier to decode.
An illegally-modified CB transceiver is much more likely to interfere with a television than ham radio. Amateur Radio Operators take pride in running clean stations, and they constantly keep them in good tune. They also know how to repair their own radios, unlike the average CB user who doesn't know the first thing about a radio other than you push the mic button and talk. Amateur Radio is very technical. CB is the radio version of curdled milk.
For many CBers, I'd say you're right, but I've seen a few that do what they're doing, including one who built his own lowpass filter that actually worked very well. Not to mention the number of CBers I've seen who've modified their radios with 10Khz jumpers, and built their own "toys"
No more problems now , not after Feb 2009. TV will be digital, And the mixer, well check into Hz freq then you will find what made that happen, Thank god they didn't have hair dryers back then. You know messing up the reception on the TV, go to electronics class people.
Yeah, I just meant the radio affects computers too. I have a base station with a 300 watt amplifier, and it affects my computer. It makes the screen black out and locks up my laser mouse. My neighbors said it makes their computer screens fuzzy too so I have to get a filter or a better antenna. The antron 99 really bleeds over everything.
Who uploaded this? Wrong format, cant even see it.
ChrisC1 2 days ago
Wire out the window...what an installation....
IronManXXX 5 days ago
oh those ham operators are sooo threatining ha ha ha ROFLMAO
barett1962 2 weeks ago 2
was actualy cb ers
barett1962 2 weeks ago
haha yea im a ham.... im not scary :) and the radio doesnt do all that stuff lol funny though
kb1radio 1 month ago
Bwahaa ha ha, "those men seem kinda threating some how", bad pr, great clip de n8xyn...tnx
jimawhitaker 2 months ago
You lazy moron. You should have deleted and re-uploaded the video with the proper format. Waste of server space.
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youneekk 7 months ago
The 'HAM. antenna on the OTHER roof is another TV antenna! silly billies!
corporallee44 7 months ago
@corporallee44 But alien ham radios do.
Khyrid 6 months ago
Let's see how many misconceptions we can find!
1. Radio signals just won't interfere with the power.
2. Radio signals wouldn't interfere with properly shielded coaxial television cable. If they haven't properly shielded it, that's their fault because radio signals are so ubiquitous that they're bound to absorb some other signal instead.
3. Ham radio operators don't broadcast on wavelengths that are already in use by ordinary radio stations.
ross817 7 months ago 5
This is so funny!
skepticalinquier 8 months ago
Denver Pyle.
Fania54 8 months ago
somebody FIX the FORMAT...i'm seasick
rs4425 8 months ago in playlist Radio
Part 15. Go buy a filter, or a quality television set. :P 73
FlyBoy276 9 months ago
The rest of this episode is quite disturbing. In a nut shell, not only is ham edible...
ThePretzelHead 9 months ago
Is this what ya call "wide screen" ??
TheTeebuckle1 9 months ago
What a shame. They seemed to having a simply wonderful evening.
Bastard hams.
bluesand22 10 months ago
That array on that roof looked ridiculous. All of us HAMs are "threatening" :) 73
ladams00 10 months ago
if i were your neighbor i would fuck up your t.v. and beat your ass. whining bitches.. i guess people were fuckers back then too... call the wambulance on the ham radio operator pussy.
tonytonytee 11 months ago
What's with the aspect ratio?
vinceandlilly 11 months ago
@vinceandlilly it's the ham radio, RF exposure makes you fat and short
majkusanagi 11 months ago
@majkusanagi LOL. Thank goodness they regulate it these days.
vinceandlilly 11 months ago
HAHA! This is me and the neighbors...wakey wakey!
richmistar250 1 year ago
This was back in the day when HAM *would* interfere with reception. The power flickering is media spinning.
All this is was probably a frustrated writer who had a bad experience with a neighbor using HAM radio.
PancakesoftheLove 1 year ago
Sadly, this is the case with many people, as soon as they have any problems with their radio or television, the nearest radio ham gets the blame. In most cases, it is the crappy television or radio that is the problem, and not us who are using transmitting equipment that has been tested properly.
PennG0VQY 1 year ago
@PennG0VQY Not anymore. Thanks to DTV Signals, we can blame the nonexistent Soviet Union now.
tehmattbookpro 1 year ago
Why is it all stretched out and what happens next?
OrodesIII 1 year ago
ITV???????? What's this?? :))) 73 de CX2ABP
CX2ABP 1 year ago
the following video is presented in super super cinema widescreen.
x19710 1 year ago 2
Coax? Do you realize what year this was in?
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whatever!! hams are not bad in this situation you just work out in a peacfull manner you dont get all ticky!! and i hate the name ham= bad... ham radios are the future and your past!! cb and commercial radio and tv wouldnt exist without ham radios!!!!!!!!
73, KJ4WYB
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whatever has are not bad in this situation you just work out in a peacfull manner you dont get all ticky and i hate the name ham= bad... ham radios are the future and your past cb and commercial radio and tv wouldnt exist without ham radios!
73, KJ4WYB
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whatever!! hams are not bad in this situation you just work out in a peacfull manner you dont get all ticky and i hate the name ham= bad... ham radios are the future and your past!! cb and commercial radio and tv wouldnt exist without ham radios!
73, KJ4WYB
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IdgitsPLACE 1 year ago
Them damn ham radio people get in my TV my iPhone my XBOX they're every where!
traffety 1 year ago
This happened to our TV when I was a kid; we had to send away for some Drake filter box for the antenna. As we found out, the majority of the time, this was the fault of the receiving equipment, not the ham radio transmitter; I think the FCC standards for OOB signal rejection got better over the years. It didn't cause the lights to flicker, or, for that matter, the picture to be squeezed down to a 16:5 aspect ratio, thought ;-)) .
lrd9999 1 year ago
Yes, the aspect ratio is annoying, isn't it!
youdillo 1 year ago
Those ham radio operators are messing up the aspect ratio, too!
benjwgarner 1 year ago 4
@benjwgarner nice comment; too f#^kin funny !!
911fever 1 year ago
Not much of a problem anymore since cable and Sat TV, and now digital over the air. Actually CBers were more often the cause of TVI after CB's introduction in 1958 and rapid mass popularity starting in the 60s. It wasn't 'til about 1974 when helped by Barry Goldwater, the electronic consumer industries were required to employ filters in their consumer equipment, thus lessening the instances of interference from transmitter sources. It's best to have a cooperative attitude if this happens to you
snowbird29803 1 year ago
Friend of mine used to quip "I'm licensed by the Federal Government to operate my transmitter, do YOU have a license to operate your television set?"
fourfortyroadrunner 1 year ago 3
..."Those men seemed kind of threatening, somehow"
too funny
911fever 1 year ago
@911fever lol what planet is she from?
markbeermonster 1 year ago
The video isn't squished enough
CPRailRTC 1 year ago
I HATE people like that... EVERYTHING that goes wrong- Your DAM Antenna! My Phone or TV etc isnt working right cause of you.. Im going to sue!! Im calling the FCC! Ignorance=Reason for execution :-)
855h0le 1 year ago
HA HA, HAM Radio Lives.......73
RFMaster6 1 year ago 2
TV=Shit Radio Comunications=the best! ;-)
neptuno338 1 year ago
we need a good hurricane to show people that the wonders of technology as they get more cmplicated are more able to not work...screw the TV nothing good on it anyway..lol
radioman9226 1 year ago
Love the presentation. Ham radio is evil. It makes you seek out Jean Shepperd. Immersed, you join the secret society of Wouff Hong. WB2SGT
peterann1 1 year ago
He looked like he was getting ready to whip up on somebody!
greenrefrigerator 1 year ago
good ole americant.
"Well darling, I cheaped out and went with the non-sheilded coax, damn those ham operators."
nitr0burn 1 year ago
I'm going make sure he has a license! You better show me your license now, my lights are flickering hahahahahahahahaha
dorslv 1 year ago
Hmm... that antenna may be tunable to 2 meter or 70 cm ... but it's usually CB (the old 11 meter band) that causes interference... and only when really poor quality coax is used. Still, the TV is a part 15 device. :)
All in all, a cute, if misinformed, clip. Yes, I am a ham ... but I do have a sense of humor.
73 all!
Semethis
semethis 1 year ago
Besides your video = bad? lol
Infernalhazard 1 year ago
CRAP its how yoiu listen
feraltex 1 year ago
fix the aspect ratio fool.
agvulpine 1 year ago
QRM.
toryvic1984 1 year ago
@toryvic1984 QRN QTZ
peterann1 1 year ago
Maybe use 1KW in local QSO :)
YU7SOG 1 year ago
Daddy...That mean old ham Radio made me pregnant. He showed me his rig....and I liked it.
HerbBeamish 1 year ago
the guy is GQP, Ricardo ja ja ja ja ja
xe1hdx 1 year ago
could have fooled me, that antenna looks like a tv antenna for vhf and uhf tv. possibly you could tune a 2 meter rig to that but in most cases u only need 5 watts or less. which i doubt would bother ur tv and cause ur lights to flicker. i would call an electrician before your house burns down from an overloaded electrical system.
eogg25 1 year ago
This guy lives next door to K2UCO?
TheLouiebeans 1 year ago
Gees...I guess they taught us wrong in history class...I thought when anything went wrong in the 1950s it was because of the communists...
TALCE1 1 year ago 3
Maybe he was an amateur radio communist?
Pepsifx357 1 year ago
According to FCC rules: ''If your neighbor complaining about front end overload in your neighbor's television receiver. He is the one who is responsible for taking care of the interference''
wireless2day 1 year ago 3
well thank god we dont have analog tv anymore, i suppose HAMs can be blamed for digital tiling on tv sets across america now
halcyon180 1 year ago
I'm going to use this as part of a technicial presentation on filters
ki4rbc 1 year ago
Long live CB and amateur (HAM) radio.
73rds to all,
41HN3800 / ZL1PO
41HN3800 2 years ago 27
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Most certainly about 40 Years ago or earlier this interference could have and did happen. In the cases when it happened, the radio operator didn't even know about the interference. Today, it is almost non existent anymore! Radio Amateurs have to worry more about getting interference from non licensed services while relaying emergency traffic. If a disaster strikes, the TV's will be dark but the same that complained may now welcome that Amateur next door.
Cheers,
KJ6ZD
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norbieify 2 years ago
Wont matter so much with the band adjustment to digital, and shielded HDMI/Coax. I was told by my uncle though, who is a ham, keep the power down when I get my license as I live in an apartment. He has worked the world with 5 watts.
TechnologyGod 2 years ago
I love the ignorance in this video... Lights don't flicker (if you can even call that flickering, more like poorly done dimming) when a HAM radio is in operation. If their TV is having problems then its a cheap TV that has no filters on it.
BlueRollinCoal 2 years ago 2
1st Saturday Night Live program....
"Jane, you ignorant slut. You jump from bed to bed like a promiscuous ham radio".
Yavor54 2 years ago
I have a general license and also enjoy citizens band. Both services have their wackos and lids, and ALWAYS have!!!!!! Code, No Code, Back Then, Nowadays; THERE WERE ALWAYS WACKOS AND LIDS ON THE AIR.
Nothing's changed except technology keeps getting cooler! SDR, digital sound card modes, microwave, all kinds of cool stuff.
The only thing i'm against in radio are:
1) proprietary, closed protocols (D-star)
2) protocols that don't check for traffic before xmitting (WINLINK)
sonick808 2 years ago
Thats why i got out of CB. Too much bad language and idiots with high power as well as the truckers why think they can talk anywere they want to, regardless if anyone was talking on the channel or not.
K9FON 2 years ago
Probably a Childrens Bander causing the TVI. We get blamed for all their stupidity !
rteguy 2 years ago
In most cases, television interference like this is caused by cheap low-quality co-ax feeding into the TV, and given the obvious ignorance of the residents in that house it would seem unlikely that they would have seen the value in paying extra for proper screened cable, and seek to blame the amateur radio enthusiast for interference that is their own fault! Besides, it is ridiculous to think that the lights would flicker as a result of RFI! Silly film! Very misinformative.
killerdalek 2 years ago 24
@killerdalek i dont know if this guys being serious or what, but it made me laugh, hah.
Drafter3 1 year ago
@killerdalek Dude, This is from the Early 60's. That wire he is looking at is 300OHM twinlead. Cable TV wasn't introduced until later, and not Nationwide until the mid to late 70's..
If you are going to comment acting like you know it all, please know it all.
This is Classic....Loved that show and happy to see it here.
kc0rey 1 year ago
@kc0rey My comments were intended to put the film into the context of the present day. By the way, there's no apostrophe in 60s or 70s. Also, capitalising 'nationwide' is inappropriate, and an 'apostrophe s' is never correctly used to denote the plural, you ignorant bitch!
killerdalek 1 year ago
@killerdalek My wife's bedroom lamp flickers from RF interference. The lamp has a touch sensor on its metal body to allow cycling through several levels of brightness and to turn it off. When ever I transmit on HF the lamp changes to the next dim level until its off then starts again bright - drives my wife potty. I was kind of wondering if my neighbours had such lamps would get freaked out in middle of the night by the lamp seemingly having a mind of its own.
stonefisk 1 year ago
@killerdalek Televisions did not have coax antenna cables in the 1960s.
toresbe 1 year ago 2
@killerdalek Its a Twilight Zone episode, although I agree it looks like a Ham propaganda film.
coolcatkiller418 1 year ago
@killerdalek You are absolutely right. I never had an amateur radio but I have over the years built some elaborate antennas for shortwave listening which have caught the eye of some. Whenever neighbours complained, I found it was best to be a good neighbour and help solve their reception problems instead of just arguing my case. They tend not to complain after that.
pitcalco 1 year ago
@pitcalco I don't blaim a lot of people looking for the most "likely" source, I would! Saying that HAM operators don't generally cause interference to frequencies outside of the amateur spectrum. #
So while they may be causing the fault to "appear" they are not at fault. This has been the case with some car alarms sensitive to signals on amateur bands.
Luckily most of us should know how to help people who are having difficulty with other devices receiving signals!
BeigeGenius 1 year ago
@killerdalek i think you're kind of missing the point, dumbo
koviack 1 year ago
@killerdalek They had coax back then? I figured they were all on 300 ohm twinlead.
cllewis1 9 months ago
Consider the source, sounds uniformed.
1tonygonz 2 years ago
"Those (hams) seem so troubling, somehow." I can relate!
dickbluecom 2 years ago
This interferance can be fixed for about 2 bucks. No big deal.
Hams have Federal licences and can put supressors on the TV, radio, telephones to keep your neighbor happy. It's mainly 10 meters that cause the problems. CB's (NOT HAMS) do more damage by running illegal with more power then anyone. KF4VZU
urasmuck 2 years ago 4
Taking my tech test Monday. Used a CB in the 70s. Haven't used one since. Theres no code requirement for any of the classes. Code kept me out of it,. I don't if I will ever really get into, we'll see. Kinda old news, not what it once was.
bauler 2 years ago
Great lines, but hate the aspect ratio (maybe user error). DE N1ZZZ
Anabasis75 2 years ago
Good Video. Bad comments. You guys making the comments sound like a bunch of screaming assholes! Just coment on the video, Sheesh!
largefrog19036 2 years ago
KJ4KVG..you must be a CB'er turned ham the way your talking. Cb'ers not only are ignorant assholes who thru liberal intervention in washington that let anyone who can turn a radio on become a ham, has now ruined the pleasure for decent people who didnt swear and play music or talk about sexual things as they do now on the ham bands. For years the Cb'ers cried they couldnt copy the code so now washington brought these morons to the ham bands after passing a law for a code free ham license. Thanks
JimmyDistant 2 years ago
JimmyDistant your a dipshit... that's not true at all... Technician class didn't need code before the code free ham license. DUH!!!
I would bet 90% of hams where and are CB'ers.
redroughneck1 2 years ago
You are quite incorrect. I had to take the code before I could get my technician class license.
fatkinson1954 2 years ago
Nope, I'm CORRECT... As of February 23, 2007, Morse Code examinations are no longer required by the FCC. It was what modern Hams wanted, not CB'ers!
Before that No-code was around for the Technician Class license from 1991 to 2007, thus I'm CORRECT.
I guess your an old fart that doesn't know better.
redroughneck1 2 years ago
No. You said that Technician class didn't need code BEFORE the code free ham license. You should be more careful as to how you express yourself.
In that you are absolutely wrong. When I went into amateur radio (1975), code was required for all amateur licenses. There wasn't even a waiver for those with hearing or other disabilities that prevented them from learning the code.
fatkinson1954 2 years ago
Your full of crap. And thats why the ham bands are now polluted with illerate morons because they dont need to take a code test but simply memorize the answers to questions. 90% of hams were against the no code licensing process because they knew what would happen and it eventually did. A complete takeover of morons that dont know a tube from a transistor,only that they are running a full gallon and thats what counts good buddy.
JimmyDistant 2 years ago
Your the idiot because you pay corporate thieves who loot and control the air waves so you can go dit dot..... The FCC is nothing but a corporate thief... If I was you I would piss on that license or use it for toilet paper. Your full of shit..No CB'er in his right mind would want that.
And fatkinson1954, I shouldn't have to express it fully, obviously JimmyDistant is referring to February 23, 2007. In that I would be correct.
redroughneck1 2 years ago
Lol your right Red >> Morse Code is out fucking dated. Very few peopl use it an its just a matter of time until the fcc drop the old time morse code an there wil be no need for it any more.Just like when back in the 60s the fcc gave cbers part of 10 meters all because the hams was not useing the band and now still today they cry about that. JIMMMY bottom line if you dont like whats going on do something about it dont just get on youtube an argue with folks about ham this and ham that.
2627mhz 2 years ago
@2627mhz ¨the fcc gave cbers part of 10 meters all because the hams was not useing the band¨
You should check your sources.
11 meters was never an official Ham band.
It was a shared resource with other technical and medical users.
It never gained favour with the Ham community because the frequency is prone to causing interference to other radio services.
Hams didn't use 11 meters , because the band allocation sucked. !
We didn't want it then , and we don't want it now.
gregW:-) OH2FFY
OH2FFY 1 year ago
You are a old fart to be carring on an on about nothing you are dong anything about. last time i check the bands that the no code tecs are useing are barely being used by hams, so why not drop the code an open up the band to people that really want a tec lic an want to get off theyre butts and enjoy the fruits of ham radio.
2627mhz 2 years ago
you and the other morons sitting on their butts are welcome to anything above 2627mhz. Hows that? and if you dont like that get some coffee cans with string attached to it and give them to your friends so you can swear and tell dirty jokes and play the guitar all you want and you wont be interferring with anyone else. Now thats an offer you idiots cant refuse.
JimmyDistant 2 years ago
I have to agree with Red, your a dipshit. The only problem with Ham radio is idiots like you who think CB'ers wanted no code. Your a fucking joke if you have a ham license.
bob4timetravel 2 years ago
No, code was previously required for all licenses (technician included). I know because I had to have code credit when I upgraded from novice to technician. I got my novice in 1975 and upgraded all the way to advanced class by 1976. Of course, I had the benefit of electronics school working for me. But I had to do the code on my own.
I upgraded to extra in 1990 (when they still required twenty words per minute code for the Extra).
fatkinson1954 2 years ago 2
This is sadly hilarious, hams who are known for providing communications as a public service during emergencies, are labeled as disruptive evil-doers. It's an interesting study in the power and methodology of negative propaganda.
U.W.
unklewink 2 years ago
Oh cool, did they let you turn on the siren? Did they give you a badge?
burtenheimer 2 years ago
u say being a ham is bad!!??
u r not even a ham or know whats its like.
u r so dumb
i'm kj4kvg, and u must be fuckass
cbr's cause more interference that every household appliance that 1 ham radio if set up right
it only makes interference if it not setup right or there is a problem with ur radio
u people are dumb, i am fucking 13 and know more than u do
if u are not a ham, don't say anything about it
btw i u cbr's cause interference i have radio Dir. fining equipment
dnl5649 2 years ago
not trying to cause a fight or take sides im a cber and im working on geting my ham liscence but anyway... if a cb is set up correctly (which most cbers dont know how to do) it shouldn't couse any more or less interference than a ham radio or a cb
namartz94 2 years ago
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CBS ARE BETTER
RIVERRAT187 2 years ago
next time you're on your CB try calling your friend's cellphone
KC0TCH 2 years ago
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ham radio is shitt!
But pirate-radio, freebanding is very cool!
leifvier 2 years ago
liefvier, if you get caught you can expect a polite fine from the fcc coming to the tune of five figures
KC0TCH 2 years ago
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Ham radio is for losers an its no fun to be one.
2627mhz 2 years ago
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Gotta love all these "Ham Radio" Oddballs still trapped in the 60's and thinking they are something important. They aren't, it's just a bunch of old men trying to convince themselves they did something in life.
ZXROMEO 2 years ago
yeah even though we participate is storm spotting and can provide emergency communications we are just odd.
KC0TCH 2 years ago 5
KJ4NFU KC0TCH "Just Odd" doesnt even begin to describe it lol
73 KJ4NFU
Bandsmurf 2 years ago
im 21 and Im an operator. So that makes me old and a do nothing?
bradhorn14 2 years ago 5
Well, look at it this way, in Indiana last winter when all of the means of communication went down we were the riding with emergency crews and with 911 providing radio comms that NO BODY ELSE HAD saved at least 20 peoples lives during the time....oh well KJ4NFU Steven 16 years old
Bandsmurf 2 years ago 2
Somebody out there still using VHF Analog broadcast television? No? Then quit complaining.
RugMeister 2 years ago 3
ok then
adeshization 2 years ago
I had a ham radio operator living next to me. I made toast one morning and his picture appeared on all of my toast. Furthermore, I was washing clothes and I heard his voice in the washing machine. Appalling!
largefrog19036 2 years ago
haha, funny largefrog19036
ham radio is a fun hobby people
just like any hobby, to each their own...
the paranoia from that guy in the clip is awesome in a way.
"ham radio operators, you know what they do to radio and television reception" haha luv it.
kc9lzi 2 years ago
listen to what the kid kkentdude has to say, as i do. especially when disasters occur and cell phone circuits are down or jammed is where ham radio operators volunteer their services. these are things that are happening 'behind the scenes' where most people don't know is going on. So the dude goes over to talk to the hams. here, to be helpful to dude, the hams offer to install filter circuitry (which is NOT built in the TV or Radio) so that the interference does NOT happen! N7HBR
MrTheThePeacemaker 2 years ago
Great video, but can not see it. Your source was old school 4:3 ratio so Please re capture/upload with 4:3 aspect ratio.
thanks
virtualbush 2 years ago
I LOVE IT! I wish the aspect ratio wasn't stretched as it is, but this is SO funny!
HotEast 2 years ago
DUDE.... what is up with the aspect ratio?????
otosflashymoon 2 years ago
Radio guys and bikers, allways causing problems....LOL
donw35 2 years ago 2
Install a notch filter on your ham and protect you circuits with filters and this won't happen.
(My license will be posted here when i get it) A, K.N, or W 1-9 (a 13 year old)
kkentdude 2 years ago
"Those men seem so threatening somehow..." lol
soccerkicker266 2 years ago 5
This video=bad resolution. Let's see how you take to ham radio if you ever need help and were the only ones around able to communicate to get you help!
KD8AJL
sanfop11 2 years ago
Oh dear...why is it in "super-wide-screen"
VK3CSJ
Melbourne....you gotta luv it!
VK3CSJ 2 years ago 3
awesome vid
ballm0use 2 years ago
This is a little out of date, as of June 12th 2009.
visor109 2 years ago
well im sorry to say but if your opinion is based on this its completely false i've now had my license for about 3 months and have talked to alot of people and my class teachers after hearing about this effect and the teachers said that this is almost non existant any more due to better technology and better antenas so please if this is your opinion why don't you join up and take a class and learn about us HAMS and than form an opinion
Bill--->---> KD0HCL
BillTheTractorMan 2 years ago
This is a scene from the Twilight Zone television show (season 5, episode 138, Jan 1964), with those in the house next door with antennas not actually Amateur/Ham Radio operators. Instead, the occupants were aliens transmitting with massive power to their home planet far in space. They also rode motorcycles and wore black leather jackets, with one falling in love with the girl walking into this scene at 1:24. Their goal is to destroy Earth, but the girl easily persuades that one alien not to.
stewartx5 2 years ago
You know, we're all a scourge.
Come and ask for my license, yeah, that'll work...
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6619723510 2 years ago
I think this video gives a distorted view of ham radio.
John G0GCL/KC2TAJ
gcljohn 2 years ago 4
ham radio is awsomer than fuck
maglight117 2 years ago 3
Yeah, I dunno about back then,
and yes, your correct. 1500W MAX but use only as much is necessary under that amount. (I rarely use the full 100W my radio can use)
There was one guy in seattle (i',m in portland) he would use like 1000 watts to get into a local repeater (in seattle) he would key up 4 other repeaters including one in portland and salem oregon
cffd3m0nslay3r 2 years ago
a little factoid - Ham radio and CB radio are and alwayse were different. Ham radio uses different frequencies than CB radio. If someone with a CB radio does this......they are operating illegally. their radios don't put out enough power to do this unless they are using an illegal amplifier.
CB radio: no license/training 5 watts output max
HAM radio: license/training 1500 watts
KE7DUX - Licensed Radio Operator
cffd3m0nslay3r 2 years ago
Uh, training?
japanesegeta 2 years ago
IF THIS EVER HAPPENS TO YOU
1. Go see if the operator has a license - you can check with the FCC database on their website.
2. If they do, they will be more than glad to help with a solution (there are many inexpensive solutions)
3. Get to be good friends and get your own license - it will probably save your life someday!
KE7DUX - Licensed Radio Operator
oh, and it'll never kill the lights - lol
KE7DUX - Licensed Amateur Radio Operator
cffd3m0nslay3r 2 years ago
wow, now that is wide screen!!!!
VideyoJunkei 2 years ago 2
Cell Phone Operators are by far the greatest threat to humanity. LOL
Amateur radio operators do much better than the FCC as far as causing bad TV reception! :)
Panamax35 2 years ago
Yes, threatening!
They control your house.
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Caseyfprincess88 2 years ago
Why is the video all scrunched up now?
WTFBSYT 2 years ago
utube screwed up something BAD on their software and a lot of videos are scrunched up now.
OjaiRoy 2 years ago
Japan was worked here using an Audio King mobile antenna on a fire escape and a Uniden SSB CB modified for 10 meters.If I recall,A pc166(133?) mobile. N2NXZ
WTFBSYT 2 years ago
that guy is uncle jesse from dukes of hazzard..
otbliveson 3 years ago 2
Another thing: I think it's funny when a CB'er tells me he can run 50,000 watts with his supercharged generator, plate-modulated radio and cubical quad and talk to someone across the country. Then he gets mad when I tell him I can easily talk to someone in Europe from North America using just 100 watts, a grid-modulated transceiver and a wire dipole!
Erzahler 3 years ago
i worked japan on 20 with an old kenwood ts440 and a hamstick
KC0TCH 3 years ago
I once worked France on 26.915Mhz from Florida. Not exactly CB, but damned close (on 400Watts) it was on a Superstar 3900 and a Palomar 450 driving a Freightliner at 70Mph.
ki6amd 2 years ago
If you use morse code or PSK/RTTY (basically high speed morse code) you can talk even farther. Ive talked to several guys in Spain using 20 watts on an inverted V. It's just beeps....easier to decode.
cffd3m0nslay3r 2 years ago
I've always wanted to try my hand at RTTY, maybe one of these days...
Erzahler 2 years ago
An illegally-modified CB transceiver is much more likely to interfere with a television than ham radio. Amateur Radio Operators take pride in running clean stations, and they constantly keep them in good tune. They also know how to repair their own radios, unlike the average CB user who doesn't know the first thing about a radio other than you push the mic button and talk. Amateur Radio is very technical. CB is the radio version of curdled milk.
Erzahler 3 years ago
And Uncle Charlie (FCC) is coming after you bad CB elves who runs over allowed wattage.
Lockemeister 3 years ago
Hey Erzahler.... Lets be real here.
When the shit hits the fan, and you're left with your own recources (ie. when the power grid goes down) is your kilo-buck Jap radio prepared?
After rag-chewing your dentures to a high sheen, aquiring supplies will sooner or later be on your list of things to do.
Since losing the code requirement, the "average CB user" has, at least, shown interest.
Elitism is not Elmer-worthy and a radio interest is a radio interest.
Tow-the-line man.
KE4YTU
CaptainMidnight85 2 years ago
For many CBers, I'd say you're right, but I've seen a few that do what they're doing, including one who built his own lowpass filter that actually worked very well. Not to mention the number of CBers I've seen who've modified their radios with 10Khz jumpers, and built their own "toys"
ki6amd 2 years ago
Nice video. Very good. Check out this vid I found. It's pretty good.
Put this in the youtube search bar:
watch?v=46SjlVldMZc
Movieist 3 years ago
No more problems now , not after Feb 2009. TV will be digital, And the mixer, well check into Hz freq then you will find what made that happen, Thank god they didn't have hair dryers back then. You know messing up the reception on the TV, go to electronics class people.
James1toknow 3 years ago
Sucks for people with computers.
BurningTirez 3 years ago
What do you mean? can you explain? I would like to hear the problem. maybe I miss understood the comment.
James1toknow 3 years ago
Yeah, I just meant the radio affects computers too. I have a base station with a 300 watt amplifier, and it affects my computer. It makes the screen black out and locks up my laser mouse. My neighbors said it makes their computer screens fuzzy too so I have to get a filter or a better antenna. The antron 99 really bleeds over everything.
BurningTirez 3 years ago
11 meters is where its at
187RIVERRAT 3 years ago
187 riverrat, I would have to disagree
KC0TCH 3 years ago
Blaming us innocent hams again, geez, everyone knows it was aliens from outer space, he should have been watchin "The Outer Limits"!
Our old TV set would pick up the electric mixer when my mom made mashed potatoes.
Now IF it were a ham, he'd receive slow scan ATV (amateur TV) on his set through the UHF converter box.
It more likly was a CBer with his two-killerwatts linniker with a coat hanger antenner wired with speaker wire and the infamous powa mic, ten fer!
Donsshack 3 years ago
those men seem kinda threatening somehow
banalexistence 3 years ago
I can't believe they had a dish washer and no cable tv? He sure has a fat azz in that vblog.
Nobody takes their antenna with them when they move. Lamest vblog I;ve seen in quite some time.
raypsi 3 years ago