It is my understanding that they follow a minimally observable protocol and power up the terminals for needed traffic. The traffic will be encrypted and designe

It is my understanding that they follow a minimally observable protocol and power up the terminals for needed traffic. The traffic will be encrypted and designed to shorten the time window during which the enemy can acquire response data. I have not seen any news about numbers of Starlink terminals found/destroyed - but operational security will lead Ukraine to deny intercepts and at the same time Russia boasting about hundreds destroyed. I am not sure how far away the Starlink Antenna can be from the control console. One would anticipate shielded cables for data. The high Ghz RF will be in the plane of the antenna - control data will not leak, being data and not high Ghz RF = nothing to leak and it could be 500 feet away from the dish in case of an incoming missile. In addition, there will be foot pickets to detect infiltrators, and few Russian will volunteer to sneak up on them. Russians are more likely to state they walked the whole area for 8 hours and saw nothing, even as they lay flat in a trench. Russians have few professional soldiers, they are wealthy in buck passers as their system rewards and promotes buck passers.