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Graham G3ZVT · 9th Nov 2018, 7:03 pm

I heard this programme, "Tracking The Lincolnshire Poacher" when it was first broadcast in 2005.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvr6o7fBcTY

I thought it was very well done, not only for the facts presented as far as anyone knew any facts, but also the way it portrayed the feeling of intercepting these messages for the first time, the mystery of them and that strangeness that the spectrum between about 2 and 5 MHz once had.

The programme seemed to capture what I felt when I first encountered these messages as an impressionable teenager, and at last, the BBC, effectively an arm of HMG, has publicly acknowledged their existence and we no longer have to be quite so careful about talking about them on amateur radio or in web forums.

9th Nov 2018, 7:03 pm	#6
Graham G3ZVT Dekatron Join Date: May 2010 Location: Greater Manchester, UK. Posts: 18,724	Re: This is worth listening to I heard this programme, "Tracking The Lincolnshire Poacher" when it was first broadcast in 2005. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvr6o7fBcTY I thought it was very well done, not only for the facts presented as far as anyone knew any facts, but also the way it portrayed the feeling of intercepting these messages for the first time, the mystery of them and that strangeness that the spectrum between about 2 and 5 MHz once had. The programme seemed to capture what I felt when I first encountered these messages as an impressionable teenager, and at last, the BBC, effectively an arm of HMG, has publicly acknowledged their existence and we no longer have to be quite so careful about talking about them on amateur radio or in web forums. __________________ -- Graham. G3ZVT Last edited by Graham G3ZVT; 9th Nov 2018 at 7:27 pm.