You can learn more about the KrakenSDR system at their website, here: www.krakenrf.com UPDATE: The jammer has been confronted, and the jamming from that location has stopped.

@AboveSportsFilms

Жыл бұрын

Awesome story! We could use your help on Orange now :)

@franktorres2242

Жыл бұрын

I was about to ask where that's affiliated link? It's below and above!

@ferrisvlogs

Жыл бұрын

Did they say why they were doing it? Personal beef or just to be a dickhead?

@ulisesnavarro9553

Жыл бұрын

Was it Bondy? LoL

@dustinmcdermont699

Жыл бұрын

There's more to the story here I imagine. You've left us with more questions then answers. I think there's probably more you can tell us in an update video without disclosing the person's identity. Motive would be interesting if you could tell us why. Angry ex? Bored kid with dad's equipment? Jeep club rivalry!? What in the world would motivate someone to be so persistent! To me it makes no sense.

Great result, well done, everyone 👏. I am just ordering a KrakenSDR and 5 antennas for myself. One trick the military taught me was whilst the jamming station are transmitting is to switch our radio from normal mode to CW, the electronic circuits of the jamming station will be broadcasting a certain electronic tone, that tone can be used as evidence in a court of law, no other tuned circuit will make the exact same sound.

I loved the story. It was intense. I was sitting on the edge of my sofa the whole time. And then you found him. I was so happy to hear that. But then you ended the story. You didn't tell us what happened to that Jammer. Did you take him out? Is he swimming with the fishes now? Did he get arrested? Did the FCC raid his house? Is there going to be a sequel to this video? You know, Randy... even the old Dragnet show told us what happened to the bad guys at the end of each episode. Jack Webb would be so disappointed with you if he was alive today. :)

@mrw1160

7 ай бұрын

He sent him a very rude letter which made him sad so he stopped.

@ronmoore6598

5 ай бұрын

What I was thinking as well. and this vid is over a year old so I guess no outcome is forthcoming.

Good job!!! I used to have a LoJack tracking unit in my patrol car (now retired) which operates exactly the same way with different display. I could find an activated transponder in under 15 minutes and it was actually one of the more fun parts of law enforcement at the time.

@donalddodson7365

Жыл бұрын

#Rj Greek About 2005 I asked one our Regional Auto Theft Taskforce (RATT) Investigators about LoJack in San Diego, CA (aka Alta California). He told about a day he was working San Ysidro along the Border. He got a really strong "hit." Just across the border in Mexico was the stolen SUV. Now it had a red and blue light bar on the roof and an official looking emblem on the door. Amazing, but true. Maybe that has all changed now ...

@stargazer7644

6 күн бұрын

Lojack uses a doppler direction finder. It works on a different principle. The Kraken is a synchronous phase comparator.

We have a jammer on a local repeater here in NY, we know who he is and where he lives. He is a convicted jammer and had (at the time) the largest fine ever placed on an individual by the FCC. He never paid it and continues to jam. I spoke with an agent with the FCC, he said they have to catch them in the act, also said they do not have enough staff. Also said he will just keep doing it even after getting another fine, there is no jail time for jammers. I know how to stop him, I just don't want to go to jail.

@grigorirasputin5020

Жыл бұрын

Spoof his phone number and call the head of a local street gang. Tell them what you think of them and be sure to include ethnic slurs appropriate to the gang contacted. Tell them you live at (his address) and you doubt they have the spherical or ovoid objects necessary to "come here and do something about it". 😄

@volvo09

Жыл бұрын

That's where people have to send warnings... Nothing wrong with placing repeated letters in the mailbox. I'd get a bit more local if it didn't stop, maybe shining a flashlight in the window when he keys up to really show you are on to him.

@OdegardOnline

Жыл бұрын

You could always ground his coax feedline some dark night...

@yungsmile7546

Жыл бұрын

I could lend you my cable cutter. That and a short piece of bare wire placed between the center conductor and shield could be helpful.

@hifiandrew

Жыл бұрын

Might be worth it to talk to an attorney and see if you can sue him in civil court too. Sure he might not pay that judgement either but you could make his life more miserable and ruin his credit.

We had a local jammer in central Pennsylvania who was jamming several GMRS and Ham repeaters. He got bumped up in priority when he started jamming emergency channels and the state police and fcc did their own fox hunt. Pretty fun stuff.

@Dratchev241

Жыл бұрын

well only way fcc will actually do something is if you jam public saftey or big money licenses... or pirate on am/fm hurting the commercial hack stations feelings. if the guy just stuck to ham/part95 dude could have jammed away till he finally kicked over from old age.

@KlodFather

Жыл бұрын

@@Dratchev241 FM bootlegging yes... But if you pirate on AM, they won't do anything about it. Promise. Been there and saw it with my own eyes. 1kw pirate on AM playing oldies. Authorities did not care.

@wishusknight3009

Жыл бұрын

Someone in our area was doing this too. As soon as the authorities got involved the guy was arrested and now is in prison. do to the law here he is probably glad no one got hurt or lost life due to his actions in jamming emergency spectrum.

@LordPerique

Жыл бұрын

@@KlodFather good.

@cdoublejj

Жыл бұрын

...go on....

great job Big R ...... Jammers are Juveniles Adults looking for attention .... in the marines back in the 80 i use to use similar equipment to look for jammers but these jammers used 1000s of watts ... and we used harm missiles to end the jamming ..

@brkfst4dnr

Жыл бұрын

Prowlers? Jam, strike, win!

@KJ6EAD

Жыл бұрын

Could a ham club buy some surplus HARMs and convert them to ham and GMRS bands? I assume you'd need an aircraft to carry them unless you can come up with a way to loft them high enough from a ground vehicle. 😉

@Strengthandconditioning60

2 күн бұрын

As an Ex Navy Ordinanceman I approve of this message 👌

Great story Randy! I am happy an Amateur Radio guy helped you. Your story shows that gmrs people and ham radio people can and should work together for the good of all. Thank you for sharing this story.

@Leonarco333

Жыл бұрын

My local GMRS group has a lot of hams in it. We are all radio people with overlapping interests. There is so much knowledge that gets shared over my local airways. It’s amazing.

@anthonygannon5461

Жыл бұрын

@@Leonarco333 Same here in New Mexico.

@michaeldimmitt2188

Жыл бұрын

I liked the story too and I don’t even do radio! Though I do enjoy eating ham…

@StevenPearl

Жыл бұрын

trust me he didnt need help.

Haven't spotted any laughs relating to your "photo" in the background yet, so I have to say A+ 😂😂

I take it that's the 2 "Jammers" on the wall in the background! LOL!

Nice! I’m very glad that you gave us this update - I’ve been very curious about how that worked. But . . . I am so glad that you stopped this guy - it was a HUGE pain on Delta with that clown jamming it all the time. Thank you, the GMRS team and the Happy Ham!

@cdoublejj

Жыл бұрын

what happened to him?

Very cool... and timely info too! We have a butt hole surfer of a jammer on a repeater that ties it up for hours by using some kind of program to control his radio to repeatedly key up (Kerchunk) the repeater in 1 second intervals. I'm seriously considering buying that KrakenSDR and try to duplicate your results. Congrats on the win!

@patrickslevin6424

Жыл бұрын

Everyone does

@LordPerique

Жыл бұрын

Do it, it's now by far my favorite piece of kit. It totally blew my expectations out of the water.

To quote Todd from Project Farm, "Very Impressive!"

Great story! I love the touching family picture of the Big Guy and his son, too.

@mrbyamile6973

Жыл бұрын

I was having a hard time telling who that was as I watched this video on my phone and the image was small. So is he sniffing Hunters hair?

@thatkajunguy8029

Жыл бұрын

@@mrbyamile6973 looking for his 10%

@Leonarco333

Жыл бұрын

@@mrbyamile6973 it looks a bit more erotic that all that.

@IgorDeCamps

Жыл бұрын

I thought it was Randy and Jordan Peterson. I was like go ahead with your bad self Randy! 😉😀

I’m a fan of communications having enjoyed scanner and shortwave radio in the 80s and 90s, reading _POPCOMM_ and wanting those fancy radios advertised but literally saving certain articles forever (at the time 😢) and building projects from other magazines and Forrest Mims books 📚 ❤ I love your sense of humor and excellent audio.

Nicely done! I attended a fox hunt with SFARC and they demonstrated the Kraken... what a cool piece of tech!

You once again made this happy ham spit his beer and your subluminals made me hit the sub button. And that's a good "Hunter" out there doing real work (no laptop required). Thanks for what you do. Keep at it, good sir 🤙🏽

I'm looking for someone to come track me down this way in the wilderness

@jonathanrogers9961

Жыл бұрын

Hope u get a reply.

@peewee3045

Жыл бұрын

That would be a cool demo Grunt Proof. I hope he reaches out to you.

"No one will ever find you if you only key up for a few seconds lol" Yeah... okay 😆 glad there's guys out there willing to do this. It's necessary to keep people from abusing it like this. Thanks for the video

@darnett5164

Жыл бұрын

Only a few second signal, yes it can be done just takes a little longer.

@VTXHobbies

Жыл бұрын

If you do it at random times with short transmissions they're gonna go bald before they find you

@drgrant

Жыл бұрын

Jammers don’t have that kind of self control to stay away very long. Also nobody is going to expend effort vs the weirdo that just farts into a mic once in awhile, on the other hand if someone is really disruptive it won’t be long before people start getting serious…..

@kabloosh699

Жыл бұрын

Well if you do it consistently for the next few months someone will eventually catch you because you're being a nuisance to everyone else.

You might want to just make a cheap wooden mounting board to hold it that can be mounted on a luggage rack. Then you could even swap it between vehicles without worrying about the transmitters moving out of alignment. You'd need to be careful to fasten it properly, but you could just use the same fabric straps you'd use for any other luggage.

@handlesrtwitterdontbelivethem

Жыл бұрын

what

Fantastic work Randy!

Your videos are incredible, I could sit down with you for hours and ask so many questions regarding Ham. Thank you sir.

As a passive member of your repeater I thank you. I monitor it when I head up to Big Bear. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

I love that even your side rants like "those color ink cartriges are a scam" are logically consistent and verifiably true. Keep up the good work.

Randy as always you have done such a good job on this subject!

Love to watch your videos and you always make me smile or laugh out loud everytime .

I wish there was a way to like a video more than once. This is top notch comedy.

@wirenutt57

Жыл бұрын

Randy gives about the best deadpan delivery I think I've ever seen. And the background music is the cherry on top!

Thank you uncle Randy for the great bedtime story

Arrow antennas makes a “base station” antenna kit for the kraken. Could likely mount the arrow kit in a truck bed

Gotta love your pics on the TV in the background...lol

DANG IT! I've been trying to get one of these for a while. They are available at the moment, too much money for me. This Direction Finding SDR looks absolutely amazing . Thanks!

Nice. This earned you a subscriber. Back in the early 90s, our club did some transmitter hunts and they were a hoot! 73 W0TTM

Randy, this is my 3rd viewing of your videos and I have to tell you that I LMAO at your presentations . The subtle comments ( which all are true ) the T Shirts the subliminal images in the corner of the screen and so much more are unmatched : ) . The explanations are clear ( even for a tech challenged person, Like Me ) and I am so grateful. I will watch more of your presentations before I get started as I want to communicate with my son and family about 25 miles away and there are trees everywhere so I will continue my education on your channel. Thanks for everything. Ed...Michigan.

Thats pretty awesome, good job by your happy ham!!

I love your channel🤘 I about fell out of my chair over your shirt😂🍻

That was such a cool story. Thanks for sharing. Happy Ham catches sad man.

This is some fantastic tech! Thank you for sharing this overview and in-use view.

Joseph WRQC308, It was quite obvious that your group was trying to make the jammer to stay on line to make it easier to trace him. I am also glad you came to an agreement instead going judicial, getting involved. Good job with friends.

One of the best holiday stories I have heard! Thank you for the eloquent reading of this exciting tale of a "fox hunt". Thanks to the HAPPY HAM that helped!

Man, there is some incredible technology available at the consumer level! Cheers and Merry Christmas!!

Hey Randy I'm glad you finally got somewhere with this it happens on ham repeaters also and we have one here in Indianapolis they do it to and a group of hams go after them find them and send a letter to them and it usually stops then. Back in the day they would get their coax straight pined and that would damage their radio but can't do that these days 😢 Happy gmrsing and love to hear you on the ham bands someday!

@chublez

Жыл бұрын

I don't understand. Is coax armored nowadays?

@hithere7382

Жыл бұрын

@@chublez You're likely to get shot in vast areas of the USA for going into people's backyards unannounced, or mauled to death by big fluffy dogs. In places like where I live you run good odds of both happening.

@thomasmaughan4798

Жыл бұрын

@@chublez " Is coax armored nowadays?" It's too easy to kerchunk a repeater with a walkie-talkie and rubber duck. It is pretty hard to do something physical when that is all that is being used to be a nuisance.

@johnboyd3660

Жыл бұрын

You sneak around in someone's yard now days you might get shot. Be careful lot's of nuts out there....

@deamontana596

Жыл бұрын

What does straight pined mean?

Loved the story and the narration. 73 VK3BT Melbourne, Australia

Good work! My Doppler DF setup has a CRT screen and crystals and you use a dry erase marker to plot a location then take bearing and put it on a map. Takes a little longer but does the same thing! I need to get a kraken SDR! We just don’t have jamming very often in rural Kansas! Even working for a public safety communications agency we don’t see much. Tracking down local noise sources at our sites are far more common

What a wicked looking piece of kit. Once it's setup right and with some radio knowledge to be able to home in on a signal source with ease, nice. From what I know of the ham community over there in the States it's pretty tight nit and they pretty much self police themselves, and are well experienced in tracking down abusers of the spectrum.

I'm glad you have happy ham friends. That's so healthy.

I like how you are now emphasizing happy ham. I'm not the referenced ham obviously. But I am The_Happy_Ham! Glad you know the practical side of radio. You're a HAM at heart Randy lol.

Thanks for informing about such an important tool. Going to be pretty nice to track individuals down in an affordable manner.

Excellent video! Thanks to your excellent channel, I hold you personally responsible for making me buy a WOUXUN KG-UV9D PLUS and enjoying a new hobby as I enter retirement.

Very cool! Well done!

Thank you for sharing!! I will have to book mark that Kraken in case I need it one day for my repeaters.. I run a couple of Amateur Radio repeaters here in Olney.. KC9zhv here 73!

Excellent video!

Splendid work old boy...!

I was listening to this earlier is week, it was crazy haha. great job.

the fresh image each video in the foreground is priceless!!!!!

I’m from SoCal and dabbling in amateur radio for the first time. I picked up a TIDradio and i scan the default channels . I think I heard this jammer on a Friday evening 2 weeks ago. I’m glad he was caught and I’m also now aware how close knit this community really is. I hope to apply for my license very soon and join in the conversation. 🙌🏽

I appreciate all the information and longitude ,latitude points..

That’s amazing. Great job.

Love your presentation and glad to see a product like this. I'll store that info away in my brain memory in case I ever need it, hopefully I won't but cool piece of tech right there.

Love your humor!

Great story......and another testament to the fact that the FCC has no desire to enforce amateur radio rules. Licensing is a gentleman's agreement in reality.

@RobertLeeAtYT

Жыл бұрын

This isn’t amateur radio. This is gmrs - which they care about even less.

Outstanding!!! I need to get one, eventually. There's a jammer on a repeater I'm on every morning. Some days it just a couple of kurchunks, and others, it's malicious interference. I've noticed that there's specific auditable tone on the PTT of the radio that the individual uses. If I was retired and had the time to hunt the offender down, I'd do it.

@mrbyamile6973

Жыл бұрын

We had a jammer on a local repeater in the Denver area. Guys direction finding were able to narrow down to what block it was emitting from but no external antennas to give it away. I just stopped getting on the radio, left my radio off and eventually just got out of the habit of talking with the usual guys and gals on that repeater. That was a couple years ago. Started listening again and what used to be a super active repeater now hardly gets used, sad that one bad seed can ruin a hobby.

I like your videos and your snarky dry humor .

Impressive!!! Also, great story telling!

We need more stories from Uncle Randy.

Wow, what an ordeal - thanks for sharing

Love your videos uncle Randy!

Mine just came in the mail the other month, ive been having a lot of mostly harmless fun with it so far.

I like this!! Good job!!!

Nice Holiday Season Story The Grinch who Jammed the Repeater

Yay story time with Uncle Randy!

Very cool. Yeah, repeater jammers are a problem for many. Excellent review of a new product. Jammers beware.

Absolutely wild that it's that quick

I don't know shit about radios I watch because Randy is funny AF he's just entertaining as hell

This is basically the same technology that LoJack uses. Some police cars have an array of 4 antennas that are processed in a similar way. The readout is different, though.

Really great stuff, Randy! Eveyone wants specifics on how the jammer was handled and whether he's stopped, and so do I, but what about the second jammer you mentioned? Gonna track him down, too? Thank you, sir! John

Thank you!

I can say good job well done congratulations

I’m surprised someone would want to jam, anyway so cool you caught them awsome thanks for sharing with us

Why is that so awesome, but scary at the same time LoL. Thanks for sharing

Thank you for the information. Very interesting.

My grandson asked who the two men were in photo behind you. I said "actors from The Bosom Buddies".

Randy I'm new to your show you're a trip keep up the good work brother

If you haven't already, mount the antenna to a board, and then attach board to car, only have to aline the board according to the front of the vehicle going forward.

Some cheap chicom wireless intercoms can cause harmful interference on GMRS repeater input frequencies. When my group DF'ed them, most of the users cooperated quickly. We also let AmASSon know that they were selling these offending items. Intercoms were Hosmart brand, FYI

@roybiv7018

Жыл бұрын

I had a video baby monitor that would take out WiFi 2.4 GHz in at least a 50+ yard radius (many homes) completely. It didn't use WiFi, but it's own spread-spectrum protocol. This was back when 5 GHz WiFi wasn't common.

I love your repeater!!!

Awesome !

😆 love the ending!

Damn I love your videos

Thanks, Uncle Randy.

Job very well done

Loved it..

Excellent Job! Great Fox hunt video!

TNX Arpad, Great Site

In West Virginia if something like that happens, all you would have to do is get on a mountain (which are ubiquitous in the "Mountain State") and wait for him to transmit and spin your yagi around and look at who's in that direction on Google Maps, and investigate a total of probably 5 locations. Gotta love the population density out here.

You are like a radio ninja.

This is magic.

Background pics are my favorite

Nice, I may have to just get this kit so we're prepared at a club level.

There is another repeater in Los Angeles area that covers LA, OC and IE pretty good. But about 2 months ago someone stater to jammed with noise like bells and some that sounds like police sirens and they started the same way slow at the beginning and now they spend a lot of time jamming the repeater. I noticed that there is at least 2 people doing it, one has an older voice and the second one look more younger since now they talked over the repeater frequency with none sense and offensive demeanor. That could be that the idiots just change repeater. This video is very informative, THANK YOU!.

Thanks Randy, this will be my next purchase!!! 73 de NF4J