Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

remember: if the government shuts down until next month, that includes the FCC.

Power up your pirate TV stations, no one will be enforcing the radio spectrum! I'll be blasting analog NTSC TV with as many watts as I can throw at it. Check out Channel 21 in the SF area, for all the bad sci-fi laserdiscs you can eat.

Dec 20, 2024 at 1:18amWeb
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 20, 2024
Stay away from upper UHF. That has been reassigned to marine rescue channels, and the coast guard will still be working if there's a government shutdown.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 20, 2024
if you don't misuse the radio spectrum when you can, Guglielmo Marconi died for nothing!
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 20, 2024
nevermind, he was a fascist. kill him again.
Show threadmmu_manDec 20, 2024
@foone not sure but I remember he was more of a businessman than engineer at least.
Show threadarcanaDec 20, 2024
@foone You know about Marconi but didn’t know this?
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 20, 2024
@arcana I only knew him from "did some important work in radio", not his politics.
Show threadmmu_manDec 20, 2024
@foone but if you do PacketRadio, he died for your SYNs.
Show threadAndrewDec 20, 2024
@foone idk, that guy was a fascist, I think he died for pretty good reasons
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 20, 2024
@cinebox whoops
Show threadJames GrimmelmannDec 20, 2024
@foone wait, he’s dead?
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 20, 2024
@jtlg I'm sorry this is how you had to find out
Show threadJames GrimmelmannDec 20, 2024
@foone
Tired: radio telegraphy
Wired: spiritual telegraphy
Expired: Gugielmo Marconi
Show threadLuna D DragonDec 20, 2024
@foone remember kids, don't boast about crimes you did on the internet! They will use it against you.
Show threadPlaidDec 20, 2024
@foone And if you get on 14.3 it won’t just be the Coast Guard. The Maritime Mobile Net clowns will say amazingly rude things to you and attempt to swamp you.
Show threadKevin Karhan Dec 20, 2024
@foone yeah, violate spectrum responsibly, unless you want to besr the #ForeseeableConsequences...
Show threadJames TinmouthDec 20, 2024
@foone this makes me want to move to SF! 😂
Show threadStephen WuebkerDec 20, 2024

@foone !! That’s a great idea! I need to build a transmitter…

I have lots of space in my electrical panel and could devote an entire 20A breaker to it… how far away could someone push a signal with 2400 watts?

Hypothetically, of course 🥸

Show threadKyleDec 20, 2024

@stephen @foone that's a good question but very variable. It depends on if your criteria is a clear signal or just recognizable, what kind of antenna is receiving, geography, and what frequency range. Lower frequency goes further.

Winter Hill in the UK had an approx 40 mile radius, 500kW (half million watts) per TV station, the highest frequency was 827(+8)mhz. The expected receiving antenna being a rooftop yagi with no or minimal obstruction

Show threadStephen WuebkerDec 20, 2024
@kyle_pegasus @foone my local AM radio station broadcasts at 50kW and can reach a decent chunk of the eastern US. At one time they used to broadcast at 500kW and could reach most of the US and points around the world because of signal reflection from the ionosphere. It’s sadly become a right wing talk radio station, but the tech and history behind the nonsense is impressive.
Show threadKyleDec 20, 2024
@stephen @foone kinda jealous that your local is WLW. they sometimes give tours of the old transmission hall
Show threadKevin Karhan Dec 20, 2024

@stephen @foone if you choose the spectrum wisely you can moonbounce... ^

  • Tho that usually requires something like #Codec2 @ 450 bit/s on #SSB...
Show threadnekoDec 20, 2024
@foone i wish i had the equipment to be broadcasting, always wanted to do pirate tv and this is the perfect opportunity
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 20, 2024
@jaiden get down to ebay and order yourself a agile modulator and it might be here in time!
Show threadrat (mibioctet)Dec 20, 2024
@foone
Oh man I've been just waiting for the chance to abuse the tv antenna my house came with. Gotta scrounge up a transmitter and blast mad Max or something
Show threadash Dec 20, 2024
@foone ​​
Show threadWolf480plDec 20, 2024
@foone wouldn't a true rebel broadcast PAL instead?
Show threadgkrnoursDec 20, 2024
@foone is that why you were encoding armageddon as small as possible?
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 20, 2024
@gkrnours no that was just because my roommates wanted it
Show threadmarlo! Dec 20, 2024
@foone hope you all have fun tbh tell someone to try to get some signals over the niagara falls border 🫡
Show threadManuelBoeDec 27, 2024
@foone it would also be nice to have some new and fun shortwave pirates on air:catjam: