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I’ve done ARES for a few years but am just venturing into this area of Emcomms. I just applied to join AmRRon - dunno their inside story. Any group that mentions Oathkeepers on their About page is probably on DHS/DOJ watchlists.I learned of them when purchasing a PreppComm MMX-20/40/80 MMX QRP Morse Code Transceiver | Texting on HF via Keyboard! That unit has gotten a lot of reviews with little mentioned about their connection with AmRRon.
Before you jump to conclusions,
I've heard malicious QRM directed at one station in a QSO but not another.
The key to jammers is to never even admit that you hear them. Act as if nothing is wrong. If the jammer is making comms impossible, just tell your buddy that you have a phone call, and end it. Call him on the phone or text him to tell him what was up. Jammers want to get a rise out of you, and want to know that they are getting to you. If you don't even mention them, then they will get bored, and bother someone else.
It's amazing how many ops of all ages are like,
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Good questions! The needs are similar between extremists, criminals and LE/Military for Secure Comms - the latter just have more/better hardware/software to do it. The articles I’ve quoted appear to come from the perspective of prepping & SHTF, with a sprinkle of Ukraine citizen resistance.
Hmmm… Must have been an oversights by the Slate author in his detailed review of extremists & radios (Slate: Max Fenton is an independent researcher and journalist who studies technology, conflict, and the far right. He holds an master’s in war studies from King's College London.)
Most HTs & Portables can be “opened up”, by desoldering a resister, to RX more frequencies. TX out-of-band is, of course, prohibited. I don’t know enough about “jamming” to know if that can be avoided. Point-to-point microwave might be the best bet. This looks interesting Announcement of the new IC-905 - Icom Europe
It’s knowledge and skills that serve when you don’t want others to know what you’re communicating or where you’re at when you’re transmitting. In such cases, you either have something to hide or someone to hide from. If you’re trying to hide your bank account password, that’s legit. If you're trying to hide plans to plant an IED, you're on one side or the other in an actual conflict (think Ukraine) or a Unabomber, McVeigh/Nichols sort of guy.
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Two questions on this one, not directed at you Maverick, the story just didn't give a lot of details.Ukraine’s Secret Weapon Is Ordinary People Spying on Russian Forces
Locals helped Ukraine target troops occupying Kherson, highlighting one of Kyiv’s advantages in the war.
“ KHERSON, Ukraine—During Russia’s occupation of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, a large electronics store served Russian forces as a field hospital, barracks and storehouse for food. One morning last summer, Ukrainian forces struck the store, completely destroying it. It was one of numerous attacks that day on Russian-controlled territory deep inside the Kherson region…
Before the blast, a small group of local Ukrainian activists had been sending photographs of the location and coordinates of the Russians over an encrypted Telegram channel to the Ukrainian military. That intelligence helped Ukrainian forces target the site, according to a military official who worked with such groups… But the channel’s members soon became a target. Russia’s Federal Security Service raided their homes and those of their relatives. Several remain imprisoned on espionage charges inside Russian-held territory, hoping a prisoner swap will set them free—although civilians, unlike members of the military, are rarely swapped.”
Being cautious wrt signal intercepts is part of the process. Being ID’s at several targeted sites is another.
I worry about all of those crazy progressives arming up, and practicing. Whenever I see a soy boy type on the range, I watch em like a hawk.SIGINT: Power & Bandwidth
When we’re thinking about SIGINT, excessive power and bandwidth are not conducive to a low-profile survival radio strategy!
“…because of the operator fatigue envolved with scanning the waterfall for our signals manually, civilian SIGINT operators are focusing on strong, wide signals. Signals which are easy to see or hear in the waterfall. Government, Military and NGOs most certainly automate the signal detection process. For them it is better to fly low and avoid the radar. Even so, from the moment our signal is detected, there is a chain of command and logistics process initiated, before any action on our signal will take place. How much time is our best guess.”
While ARRL had an announcement about use of Amateur Radio bands for illicit purposes a while back, I’m not sure if LE/Others are monitoring 2m/70cm, GMRS, FRS, etc. Maybe since Jan 6, that’s more common?
The Surprising Tool Far-Right Extremists Used to Coordinate the Jan. 6 Attacks
Militia groups are leaning on personal radios to organize extremist violence. The assault on the Capitol illustrates the stakes.slate.com
”This use of radio during the highest-profile instance of right-wing extremism in decades, however, is not unique. It is part of an obscure but increasingly concerning phenomenon among the far right in recent years: using radio as a means of clandestine communication…Richard Fairburn, a retired law enforcement professional who has written on radio issues, said that law enforcement must be aware of the popularity of radio, particularly with the wave of low-cost products hitting the radio market. “Since the radios can be programmed to any frequency within their limits, some ‘unused’ or ‘black’ frequencies can be used, which would be very unlikely to be monitored by the FCC or ham operators,” he said.”
Clandestine communication? Anyone with a radio can listen. And Leftists can use radios too!
