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It depends on how conspicuous the transmitter/receiver is. The authorities could just roll up and confiscate your antenna if such is easily visible and uncommon
by jacobwilliamroy 7y ago
It depends on how conspicuous the transmitter/receiver is. The authorities could just roll up and confiscate your antenna if such is easily visible and uncommon. Or deploy a jammer in your area. I think it would be about as safe as operating a pirate radio station.
- Tepix 7y agoIt's a flat box the size of a pizza box. If you have a building with a flat roof it should be pretty much undetectable visually.
- Klathmon 7y agoBut it'll also be a device that will most likely blast RF all over the place. I can't imagine finding a transmitter capable of reaching LEO being all that hard for a country.
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- stcredzero 7y agoWhat if the whole group of satellites overhead acted as one huge phased array? If that could be made to work, then it could be very hard to detect the uplink and downlink. This would be fiendishly difficult to pull off, however.