Explicit ham radio trolling session caught on tape

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A blogger was searching through the VHF/UHF bands looking for public safety frequencies and came across a very explicit conversation on the local repeater. Sounds like they are probably buddies just messing around with each other, but nonetheless the language they use would probably make FCC Special Counselor Laura Smith blush. This most certainly goes against Part 97 rules.

Stay with it, it gets better and better as it goes on.

Caution: explicit language. I probably wouldn't listen to this at work or with your grandmother.

Random ham radio trollfight audio (explicit) - Boing Boing

[k9rzz]

Big whoop.

[JLM7424]

Theirs been alot of problems in the LA area with ham callsiigns being taken and used like Idenity theft.

[mtindor]

Originally Posted by JLM7424

Theirs been alot of problems in the LA area with ham callsiigns being taken and used like Idenity theft.

As soon as I heard the audio, I came to the conclusion that its just some dufuses who decided to use valid callsigns of other people on the repeater. In fact, it sounds like they purposefully chose two certain callsigns [probably of people they don't like for some reason or another] and then decided to talk on the repeater as if they were the two people who actually are assigned the callsign, in hopes that somebody goes and makes a big hoopla to the FCC and erroneously implicates the callholders.

mike

[brandon]

Sounds like usual business on 2 meters

[FFPM571]

Sounds like a cheech and chong bit... LOL

[Wyandotte]

Originally Posted by brandon

Sounds like usual business on 2 meters

If you could filter out the swear words, the conversation would sound exactly like a typical round table every weekday afternoon on a certaIn Detroit area two meter machine, where the people are not so smart.

[joehawth]

don't be hating so hard on 2m!

[10-95]

Who cares anyway. A half brain dead person can get a ticket now anyway. Spend 20 minutes looking at question/answer study guide, have a pulse and be able to spell your name and get a call sign!
Who knows, they may actually be actual hams!

[WisconsinRailfan]

I think that's the W6NUT Repeater. Website for the 147.435 Amateur Radio Repeater
They even have a live feed at http://74.52.7.110:8000/listen.pls

[KF5DCI]

wtf lol

[kb2vxa]

"I think that's the W6NUT Repeater."
I heard the CWID but at 20WPM it's too fast for me to copy and I'm too lazy to record it and work my digital magic on it to slow it down like I GAF anyway. Oh that RJ character sounds familiar, we had our Budweiser Bob on one of the NY machines, a peculiar source of amusement.

In a similar vein the pimple face "lifeguards" here in "The Beach" treat their radios like cell phones and provide even more day long amusement than drunken hams. All good things must come to an end as I look forward to a boring winter. (;->)

[dwh367]

Originally Posted by 10-95

Who cares anyway. A half brain dead person can get a ticket now anyway. Spend 20 minutes looking at question/answer study guide, have a pulse and be able to spell your name and get a call sign!

I'll bet that statement gives both potential and new licensees a case of the warm fuzzies With all due respect, please keep in mind that the current wave of licensees are only doing what is required of them...just as you did what was required of you when you got your ticket. We have no control over what the criteria is and there's always going to be a bad apple or two in a bushel no matter how carefully one tries to pick them off the tree.

Myself, when I hear a new call sign on the air, I already know I have at least one thing in common with them (an interest in radio communications) and I make it a point to congratulate them and welcome them to the hobby. I hope that one day you will be able to do the same. Seventy-Three.

[IrvingtonVFD43]

Originally Posted by FFPM571

Sounds like a cheech and chong bit... LOL

Cheech and Chong at first, it later sounded like Beavis and Butthead....Fire, "male genitalia",etc....

[Fast1eddie]

Oh geez, get over it. Bigger problems to deal with these days. If it is bothersome, why has not the control op enabled PL????

[Wyandotte]

Seems to me, that on average, most of the new hams we have around me are people who don't make friends easily. Quite a few 30-40 year old men who still live at home with their folks. Couples that seem to have no other friends, since they can make every ham and club function at a moment’s notice. We have had so many who start coming to our club meetings, and then just one person says something just a little out of the way, and they get their feelings hurt and you never see them again. Like I said, it seems like we are getting more and more socially illiterate folks in this hobby. People who don't have friends, don't seem to know how make friends. The type of people who go from church to church to Elk's Lodge to Computer Club to bowling league, trying to make friends, but never really succeeding. Never really fitting in anywhere they go. You know the type I'm talking about, you see them at a club meeting, just standing by the wall, all by themselves, Or sitting at a table all by themselves at a swap, with a "deer in the headlights" look on their face. When you talk to them on the air, the things they talk about seem a little simple, not much thought going into what's being said.

I don't know about the rest of the country, but that pretty much sums up quite a few of the new hams I see and hear lately in my neck of the woods. The good thing is, most of 'em have seemed to gravitate to one machine here in Metro Detroit. So you know how to avoid them. I should make a sound clip of a typical late evening roundtable discussion on that machine. There is no swearing, but it sure makes you wonder about where ham radio is going, at least two meters.

[mule1075]

yup that is the repeater in question.

Originally Posted by WisconsinRailfan

I think that's the W6NUT Repeater. Website for the 147.435 Amateur Radio Repeater
They even have a live feed at http://74.52.7.110:8000/listen.pls

[elk2370bruce]

Originally Posted by mtindor

As soon as I heard the audio, I came to the conclusion that its just some dufuses who decided to use valid callsigns of other people on the repeater. In fact, it sounds like they purposefully chose two certain callsigns [probably of people they don't like for some reason or another] and then decided to talk on the repeater as if they were the two people who actually are assigned the callsign, in hopes that somebody goes and makes a big hoopla to the FCC and erroneously implicates the callholders.

mike

The entire world, not just amateur radio, is replete with fools, half-wits, and ner-do-wells. Listening to one tape is hardly an indictment on the entire hobby. We all should remember that each radio comes with a big knob to change frequency and a nice little switch that goes on and off with a comforting click. Each of us hears lots of things we would prefer to avoid at work, on the internet, television, etc. Amateur radio is more than the occasional festering rectal openings that draw our attention both here and elsewhere - as well as tje occasional and in-depth discussion about rectal temperature, cataracts, and other geriatric ailments. As to the great beating of chests expressed here, get over it and get on with your life! If you have negative feelings about amateur radio, stop listening. There are lots of real problems that you can actually do something about. Tempests in teapots are hardly worth the expenditure of calories.

[Drafin]

Just listened to about an hour of audio from the live feed. There's no need for me to get a ham license if it's like all like that. Heck all they have over CB is distance you can talk or listen.

Wow....just wow.

Draf

[kb0nly]

Originally Posted by Drafin

Just listened to about an hour of audio from the live feed. There's no need for me to get a ham license if it's like all like that. Heck all they have over CB is distance you can talk or listen.

Wow....just wow.

Draf

It's not like that everywhere...

Around here the repeaters are civilized and fun. I'm a control op of a couple and maintain a few other sites, nothing but civilized conversation. As always it depends on the area and such. Around here if someone started cussing and swearing on the repeater they would get a warning, and then the repeater would be disabled and the local OO (Official Observer) would be notified. He loves sending out warnings and forwarding them on to the FCC.

If i streamed any of the repeaters around here live you would enjoy the conversations we have, not always technical though, lots of times its just passing time to and from work. You can also listen to a few around here on EchoLink to see what i mean, just nice conversation!

Usually during an average week you will hear everything from kids talking about video games to wife's talking about recipes. I guess we have been raised with better values around here.