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Excuse the noob but what are you on about?
Whats EC?

Mattylad wrote:Excuse the noob but what are you on about?
Whats EC?

http://www.freebanding.co.uk/echo_charlie.htm

It's like freebanding, except it works.

It's the next level up in naughtiness from freebanding on 11m. If you get caught you will be punished. But hardly anybody has.

I have listened a lot to Echo-Charlie on 6MHz.

Echo-Charlie users are a little 'different' to Freebanders. They adopt LSB when everybody else uses USB. They are knowledgeable, and know that there are a few spot frequencies to avoid and they avoid them. They would automatically QSY from any frequency when asked to do so by a professional station. There is an 'etiquette'.

The mandate of our beloved Ofcom is to respond to and investigate reports of interference by primary users. But there have been none about Echo-Charlie.

Echo Charlie on 6MHz goes back a long time - to the 1950s. It was probably not started by 'pirates' at all, but by errant MARS members. The Yanks of course claim everything below 40m for one service that they hardly ever use now. Greedy greedy Yanks.

In fact they will probably disband MARS soon, because the American servicemen now use E-mail, txt and Skype like everybody else.

I have a ham licence to protect, so I cannot use it - openly at least - and of course I can go on 40m legally. But I am not your nanny.

So is that who's on 7.158mhz at the moment?

I can hear a 'G' and - from the accent presumably a 'GW' chatting.

I presume that in the next 10 minutes or so they will give their callsigns, as required.

It's a myth that they have to give it every over.

I thought the ham band stopped at 7.1mhz?

Mattylad wrote:I thought the ham band stopped at 7.1mhz?

No, it's 7.2 now.

I need to stop using http://users.whsmithnet.co.uk/m0dad/ama ... encies.htm then.
I could do with a small list of the band plans etc so I can print it and carry it with the radio
"The noobs guide to ham bands and mobile DXing" lol

I might interrupt them then as I need a microphone check between my Kenwood and Yaesu ones

Mattylad wrote:I need to stop using http://users.whsmithnet.co.uk/m0dad/ama ... encies.htm then.
I could do with a small list of the band plans etc so I can print it and carry it with the radio
"The noobs guide to ham bands and mobile DXing" lol

I might interrupt them then as I need a microphone check between my Kenwood and Yaesu ones

Try this Matt http://thersgb.org/services/bandplans/h ... 2014-1.htm most up to date you will get.

UK Chat going on now 6675.00 http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

Russian OTHR now on 6950.

Do they need a licence, or ask permission for a megawatt?

No.

... Then neither do we for maybe 10 to 100 Watts.

ChrisCSL wrote:Russian OTHR now on 6950.

Do they need a licence, or ask permission for a megawatt?

No.

... Then neither do we for maybe 10 to 100 Watts.

I wonder if the Russians would avoid HF Air Traffic frequemncies with they "son of the woodpecker" jobbie.

Yeah, grass, snitch, blah, blah, I'm too old and too crippled up with arthritis to take any of you into the carpark, but I really care not a flying fig about your attempts to bully by text.

I have an opinion, and that opinion is that most freebanding is fair game at your own risk, but EC is too close to some sensitive services for my liking, and therefore I cannot, and will not condone their actions.

Feel free to continue with your moronic outbursts, just because we don't agree doesn't mean you're correct, likewise it doesn't mean I'm correct either, but we are all entitled to an opinion, if you don't like my opinion then tough titty.

6665khz is in the transatlantic aeronautical HF Band which is 6525-6765khz who ever transmits here is taking a big risk apart from the main ground control stations any frequency here can be used if the main back up frequency can not be used for some reason and air force also use this frequency range too

I've put the link up at the top of the thread. You have to be intelligent, do your research, and avoid frequencies where you may cause problems. Generally the higher the better.

If you use your brains, they will never even know that you are there. They just dial-in their allocated channels and rightly expect them to be free. They don't 'surf the bands' like we do.

Echo Charlie is not CB. It is 'Pirate Radio'

It was around for decades before anybody on this side of the pond had ever heard of CB. There is a gentlemens' etiquette between legit users and Echo Charlies. The Echo Charlie will always either QSY or QRT when asked.

Come on there and act like a UK forty muppet, and the Echo Charlies will probably track you down themselves and shop you.