The Government Monitoring Stations That Can Hear Everything Everywhere

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  @Zodliness · 1 month ago

  It&apos;s amazing the lengths to which Ofcom go to locate <b>&apos;unlicensed&apos;</b> radio interference! 🤦‍♂😏

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• SP

  @speno80 · 1 month ago

  I was involved with putting a few of these sites up, back in the day. We were sub-contracted to Ofcom. Didn&apos;t recognise the site at first but recognised myself in a photo about 3 minutes in to your video! Probably about 20 years ago. Put the one up at Birdlip, one near Hull, Shadwell near Leeds and a reservoir near Epping if my memory serves correctly.

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• RO

  @rog2224 · 1 month ago

  My &quot;beef&quot; with OFCOM is that they&apos;ve always been spineless.

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• AS

  @asher666 · 1 month ago

  I was a Midland CB set user as a kid around east sussex and you&apos;ve got my interest back into the old hobby... keep up the awesome work and shares 😊

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• JO

  @johnnorth9355 · 1 month ago

  I shall sleep poorly tonight due to antenna envy. Thanks Lewis.

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• CS

  @csrrjefflloyd6496 · 1 month ago

  It was interesting to hear that Ofcomm has the same challenges the FCC here in the USA has in monitoring radio spectrum.

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• MA

  @MancCow · 1 month ago

  I sit watching and listening and most is over my head. But then, showing my true intelligence at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Waky2GF2uY&amp;t=638">10:38</a> I sit up and shout &quot;RABBIT!&quot; <br>But I still enjoy these videos. And I think I&apos;m slowly learning bits n&apos; bobs.

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• PH

  @Phillip_Bailey_original · 1 month ago

  I haven&apos;t even watched it yet but I already know I&apos;m going to enjoy it - thanks!

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• LE

  @Leo-u3t1j · 1 month ago

  Baldock sometimes uses HAM beacons to calibrate their DF stuff. I know someone working there.

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• ST

  @StreakyP · 1 month ago (edited)

  you also have to wonder what tie in OfCom now have with the military &amp; their satellite sniffed SIGINT

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• B.

  @b.griffin317 · 1 month ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Waky2GF2uY&amp;t=75">1:15</a> I&apos;m rather surprised there was only one monitoring station in Northern Ireland given the security and intelligence value of locating transmitters there. Triangulation would presumably require the cooperation of stations on the mainland, which given their distance over the Irish Sea would seem to greatly reduce their accuracy.

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• XS

  @Xsiondu · 1 month ago

  20 years ago i did work on a monitoring station in Chesapeake VA. &nbsp; There were so many antennas there. &nbsp;Matter of fact back in the 80s there was a Boy scouts Camp jamboree there and those sailors had to give 2000 unruly children hopped up on s&apos;mores and got chocolate an hour long &quot;don&apos;t touch anything &quot; talk. There was an antenna that was 2 maybe 3 feet of the ground but it was 2. &nbsp; kilometer long 6 inch pipes made of aluminum running across the camp ground. &nbsp;It was apparently a radar for the Gulf of Mexico that bounced off the ionosphere. &nbsp;Lot of fun as a kid being there. &nbsp; Im sure everything was basically turned off but they were so adamant that touching any of them would electrocute us.

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