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I don't know if it was involved here, but "spectrum monitoring" (that's the keyword for more information about equipment you can get and who the expected custom

I don't know if it was involved here, but "spectrum monitoring" (that's the keyword for more information about equipment you can get and who the expected customers are) is definitely a thing that is done in many places, and not only by the military, but also by police and regulators. It's not clear where the mast was installed (the CoL police aren't specifically limited to that very small area and one arrest was South London and one was Manchester) but if it was in central London, as a glaring terrorist target with an airport (London City) and heliport, I'd be very, very surprised if there's nothing watching the spectrum. Whether the operators of the spendy gear would share the information up for such "petty" crime, I don't know. And there's always the Ham community who really, really hate spectrum abusers.

GJim 2y ago
> spectrum monitoring".... is definitely a thing that is done in many places Not by Ofcom it isn't! (At least, certainly not on any scale as far as RF interference/spoofing is concerned).
- implements 2y ago
  Ringway Manchester (YT radio enthusiast) has a good video about OFCOM DF monitoring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMUwIpWvnbE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMUwIpWvnbE - may have been scaled back now, though.
  - gravescale 2y ago
    Come to think of it, the mobile operators themselves have a large national network of radio receivers with lots of fancy time-of-flight, phased array multi-path, multi-band capabilities. Maybe these days Ofcom can just ask them if they are interested in something specific.
    - giantg2 2y ago
      They also rent space on the towers for other people's equiptment.
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