This is a salient point I hadn't considered. I absolutely would not trust a mob or even most armies if they catch you in hostile territory with a radio at all,

This is a salient point I hadn't considered. I absolutely would not trust a mob or even most armies if they catch you in hostile territory with a radio at all, much less a sophisticated radio that might be able to interoperate with an army's. At the high end of the price range, some of the satellite internet receivers aren't outrageously conspicious, like this [1]. I mean, it's odd looking, but you could probably pass it off as something at least semi-innocuous like a proprietary wireless receiver for audio-video gear or something. From a naive perspective, it screams "wifi" to me, rather than satellite. I'd just tear the silver regulatory label off a consumer wifi router and replace the one on that box with it. 1. https://satellitephonestore.com/catalog/sale/details/thales-missionlink-350 https://satellitephonestore.com/catalog/sale/details/thales-...