Hams Behaving Badly 7200 LSB 0122 UTC 8 JUL 2024

[Molvania Poacher]

SINPO=33443

122- Loop of OM saying "FCC, this is Chuck, can I help you?"
124- Quick OM audio clip, "The FCC will descend upon you!"
124- "Trailer Park Boys" TV show theme.
125- Operator calling CQ, followed by a Trump audio clip.
125- OM audio clip of "where's all the [bundles of sticks] at, where all the [British cigarettes]?" repeating twice (radio editing provided by me).
126- Trump speech audio clip.
128- Loop of OM saying something short about "Ham radio in America."
129- Silent. OTA?

This sounds like Ham hi-jinx.

Thanks MrMomB, that's what I suspected. And thanks Skip! It sounded like show, until it didn't. It's nice that those folks have a hobby.

[MrMomB]

Usual jokers on 7.2

[Skipmuck]

7200 LSB has been the watering hole for malcontents in amateur radio for a long time. Sometimes it's funny, but mostly it's garbage.... 

[KMD3HR]

Typical with sstv trying

[hflstnr]

0236 - Music and nonsence
0237 - Digital sstv?
0238 - Arguing
0240 - digital sstv, almost got it to decode until someone started playing music over it

[NQC]

Hey All.

An interesting post.


NQC

[Edgar Souse]

LOL. Boomers. Heart disease and alcoholism will take care of them soon enough.

[autovon]

Someone played a recording of the Lincolnshire Poacher numbers station recently.  It was nice to hear LP over the HF despite the circumstances 

[John Poet]

Just tuned into this tonight , 12-28 at 2330 for the first time, after noticing this thread, out of curiosity as there are no pirates on the air at the moment...


The lunatics are definitely in charge of the asylum tonight..  Usually difficult to follow too much, as everyone is talking over each other.

The highlight for me tonight, was the guy with the hill-billy southern accent,
repeatedly singing the first four lines of "Juke Box Hero"   lmao

There's a lot of singing tonight-- I have no idea if that's normal but suspect it may be.
Random sound effects, vs. "if you'd shut that thing off, I could threaten this guy properly!"


They actually gave some of these guys licenses??

[osiris]

I've been listening there for years when there is nothing else of interest. Sometimes it's entertaining, and sometimes it's pure chaos. My ham neighbor across the river from me gets on there sometimes (as well as 14313) which surprises me. He doesn't seem like that kind of guy.

The commentary during the inauguration on 7200 was hilarious, though. Wish I had thought to record it. I'd be surprised if the secret service didn't knock on the one guy's door the next day. 

[Charlie_Dont_Surf]

The commentary during the inauguration on 7200 was hilarious, though. Wish I had thought to record it. I'd be surprised if the secret service didn't knock on the one guy's door the next day.

If the FCC isn't doing anything about 7200, I'm assuming that they have other priorities. That goes double for the Secret Service.

[radioartisan]

If the FCC isn't doing anything about 7200, I'm assuming that they have other priorities

The FCC's priorities are now eliminating DEI for Dear Leader and the beatification of The Party, killing Net Neutrality, and doing everything they can to "increase shareholder value" for the wireless carriers and lobbyists.  They could care less about HF and amateur radio, it's just an administrative annoyance to them.  Another priority, though somewhat lesser is the PIRATE Act, where they impose fines they never have any hope of collecting, but it makes really good entries in the otherwise boring Daily Digest which makes people think they're doing something constructive, and sticking it to the "bad guys".  Frankly, it would be great if a lot of FCC workers take the voluntary resignation deal, though they're going to get stiffed with the severance deal as there's no funding for it.

[Charlie_Dont_Surf]

The FCC's priorities are now eliminating DEI for Dear Leader and the beatification of The Party, killing Net Neutrality, and doing everything they can to "increase shareholder value" for the wireless carriers and lobbyists.

Agree 100%. Also, I expect that under Unser Führer Musk (who seems to have mastered the salute) that the FCC will be further de-fanged than it already is in the name of "efficiency" (which is code for "enriching himself and the ruling oligarchy").

[radioartisan]

Agree 100%. Also, I expect that under Unser Führer Musk (who seems to have mastered the salute) that the FCC will be further de-fanged than it already is in the name of "efficiency" .

Even prior to this administration I've expected/predicted the FCC will at some point in our lifetimes "deregulate" HF and make it a free-for-all.  Maybe I'm smoking crack as the NTIA would have a say in it and there is still some federal and military use.  But I digress.

I could see someone making a case to keep FCC enforcement personnel in place to support PIRATE Act related actions, until the beancounters figure out they're actually losing money because some guy in an apartment with a soldered-together kit FM transmitter doesn't have $2M to pay a fine.

[Charlie_Dont_Surf]

So, with the state of enforcement being what it is, I'd say that HF operators and rogue hams (e.g., 7200) have very little to worry about.

Paraphrasing The Orange Blob, one could set up a transmitter in the middle of Fifth Avenue in New York City (so to speak) and nothing will happen to you.