Anyone else hearing this?

Psychobiker

27.222-24MHz

Sounds like someone just sat on their key and forgot about it...nothing I have around here is resonant on that frequency.

L

barnicles

Where

Psychobiker

barnicles wrote: »

Where

I'm east galway.

It's really, really strong, but nothing I have kicking around here is of that freq...hmm

Gareth37

Psychobiker wrote: »

27.222-24MHz

Sounds like someone just sat on their key and forgot about it...nothing I have around here is resonant on that frequency.

L

Is that AM, FM, SBs or what?

Im in Galway, would take me a week or 2 to set up but help you test if you want.

Is there many on the CB in Galway? Any good craic? What freqs and modes?

Psychobiker

SSB.

There are a few of us, waiting to get our radio licenses pootering about on 26-7MHz, but other than that it;s france and spain all the way.

L

Psychobiker

Lo! And from the heavens....!

IT turned out to be the local church splattering 5MHz either way with constant carrier on AM, keyed up the whole time. Comes on and off at random intervals....but knocks out .222-.230 with spurious emissions :S

L

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Bluenarf

iv read about the churches and their illegal transmissions, it was in the irts news some time ago!

watty

Basically around the UK 27.5MHz (between Irish/Euro CB and Amateur @ 28) is now I think 80 community licence channels, €100 a year for one channel.

humaxf1

watty wrote: »

Basically around the UK 27.5MHz (between Irish/Euro CB and Amateur @ 28) is now I think 80 community licence channels, €100 a year for one channel.

Handy income for brian cowan and his cronies.

People in Ireland have been transmitting on 27MHz for yearssssss without any hassle or licence fees. Then ALL OF A SUDDEN (as reported in The Irish Times <I think>) church transmissions, which were in existance for a number of years at the time, are interfering with airband!!! (I must admit, they do cause bleedover though)

Chingching Chingching...more taxation thanks to comreg. Its funny how normal CB goings on/church trans. never interfered with airband until recently

I bet Luigi in Italy gets on just fine with his 6 ele beam and 1KW linear and is not hassled by the powers to be!!!

telecinesk

Nothing like divine DX coming from Ireland on 27mhz.and Im 1600kM from there. Next time, I will complain to Comreg that my local reception is being thrashed out of it by the churches and to get on their bikes.

Its a cashcow too re licence. Another Irish racket to create a witchhunt and then hit them with a licence fee. Is there anything left there that is free of bureaucracy.


I remember back in 89 when suddenly ch30 ukfm was full of church stuff. Think it was sutton at the time, One was inspired to improve ones radio equipment to avoid divine bleedover and bin the awful Cb equipment forever.

humaxf1

bless you my child

watty

They wanted the Churches using VHF BandII moved to 27MHz.

humaxf1

Today, just out of interest, I did a programmed scan on a 72XLT w/rubber duck between 27.0 - 28.0 and received 3 to 4 churches. Signal strength was reasonably good (out n about in Dun Laoghaire)

Psychobiker

Heh, I have minds of keying up and :

"This is EI777GOD, PEACE UNTO THEE"

watty

Ei6bb ?

Psychobiker

There's no snarling or sounds of torture .. so no EI6bb

humaxf1

27.3 to 27.7 was active last nite. Got into Netherlands on .540 for about 10 minutes on USB. 27.395 had FM skip from Netherlands with one guy booming in on a 9+ with odd bit of QSB. Any ideas when the sun cycle is coming around to it's optimum?

Psychobiker

http://www.geotimes.org/apr07/article.html?id=WebExtra043007.html

watty

humaxf1 wrote: »

27.3 to 27.7 was active last nite. Got into Netherlands on .540 for about 10 minutes on USB. 27.395 had FM skip from Netherlands with one guy booming in on a 9+ with odd bit of QSB. Any ideas when the sun cycle is coming around to it's optimum?

About 3 more years?

10m been active. 5w contact to Czech last week (28.4xx something).

last two nights was open too, but I didn't do any calls.

humaxf1

I had the oppurtunity to look at a House of God WPAS install "very quickly" yesterday. Consists of an electrical box similar to this http://www.micromega-dynamics.com/images/amd_electrical_box.jpg with a few industrial type neon indicators and push button switches. WPAS stickers pasted all over it and a crude vertical whip...bit longer like what you see on electronic gates.

The "high site" has a CB vertical similar to an Antron 99. as I said, it was a very quick look, so how the audio gets to the high site, I dunno. Does the electrical box act as a "link transmitter" of some kind??

I'll try to get a closer look at it another time or stand outside with a sniffer. http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/CP42.pdf FYI

Psychobiker

That small vertical whip is I'll wager a 433MHz link to the high site

humaxf1

ragherrrrrrr... will investigate