a very good evening my name's callum callsignm0mcx and if you're new to the channel welcome i just
want to introduce a type of person that you might hear on the bands every now and again commonly
known as the band police very well-meaning individuals extremely valuable and normally
extremely senior in the hobby they've been doing it for years they probably know better than you
that's the thing they'll have great stations often valve equipment with long wires okay
very long wires some cases extremely long wires and the other thing about van police and you'll
find is they don't need call signs now these gracious individuals restrict their activities
they don't call cq things like they don't join in qsos selfless actually in that regard so we
might be better on the bands all right in terms of your banned police appointment if you want to be a
band policeman or policewoman good news is it's a self-appointed role there's no forms or anything
you don't apply anywhere there's no paperwork you don't report to anybody but the important thing is
you know the rules from 1967. every rule in 1967 you knew and you probably passed the
exam by the time you were 13. so let me explain some of the jobs that band policemen can do so
if there's a dx station transmitting on i don't know 14 210 but he's listening on 14 215 and
what happens is he can say this is some very rare island the middle of nowhere calling cq listening
up five so he's listing two on five and that means all the hubba bub and noise is happening on two on
five all the dx operators are listening to him are actually listening on a very clear frequency which
is two one zero and a new boy turns up who thinks oh i'll call this guy as he's hardly got a pile up
i'll call him on 210. he calls him on 210. now a banned policeman should immediately come straight
in normally with at least two and a half to five thousand watts shouting up five up five up five
that's important just up five shouting normally so if the operator who's calling the dx station
doesn't know what up five means it just frightens them off you see and then they don't they don't
participate any longer and then don't make a mess now i was down in cornwall and regulars
the channel will know that i uh i go to cornwall a couple of times a year and i'm calling m0mcx cq
and having a run into uh the us in the middle of the night yeah doing a great job i mean i
sounded i sounded really good but there was a band policeman clearly within about 10 miles of me who
knew that i should be calling m0mcx stroke p for portable or stroke a for alternative because in
1967 that's what you had to do but in the modern day what he doesn't realize is that clause 17
subclause 5 subsection d it's voluntary and when i explain that to him that's the other thing about
bound police when they're never wrong no matter what i said got to stick to his guns hasn't he
because after all if we're going to operate in 1967 we might as well have the rules from 1967
right it might be in the same guy actually but i remember being on a frequency and someone dropped
in on that frequency with their friend maybe they'd just come from another frequency i'll
see you on them seven one six two five bang and all of a sudden there's two italians or a couple
of russians well this band police and he was exceptional telling them that the frequency was
in use because i can't do that myself you see i'm not qualified to be able to say the frequencies
in you so but the band police they did a really good job on that a couple other minor things that
if you're interested in being a band policeman is it correcting mistakes okay so for instance if you
hear a couple of guys talking about using a tuner on coax to tune a multi-band loop for instance
you should immediately come in on the side again not saying your call sign for god's sake
don't start telling people who you are or anything you know and saying they got it wrong
explain you four to one balance for that to go multiband and if it's a single band you can go
with a coax stub okay and then drop out again and just leave them in shock but the reality is
that's not a very good example because in the main a good band policeman should make sure that nobody
ever uses coax ever again and should only ever use balance feeder now just got a couple
of notes here to wrap up with it i call it the four use okay the four use the benefits of not
joining the band please now you're free to call cq a travel is you see band please don't call cq
in case people hear the call sign and then recognize the voice one day and put the two
and two together hey the second you is you can join in conversations tell people who
you are and your name give your real locator and your real call sign that's the second you
it's really important it frees you up which is the third you you're free to learn new things
and come out your 1967 bubble and the fourth year is you don't have to be worried about
anybody else ever again so have a think about the benefits of not being in the pound please
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