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Exactly. Consider the guys with absolutely the most reason to want to hide a radio station: the military. They're not worrying about the FCC, they're worryin
by LorenPechtel 2y ago
Exactly. Consider the guys with absolutely the most reason to want to hide a radio station: the military. They're not worrying about the FCC, they're worrying about antiradiation missiles. Do they have a way of hiding a transmitter? Only by things designed to make it look like noise and that requires the receiver to know how to recognize the signal in the noise.
If they can't hide it, you can't, either.
- akira2501 2y ago> Do they have a way of hiding a transmitter? Spread spectrum and/or frequency hopping. > If they can't hide it, you can't, either. The reason you can't hide it is because it's an FM modulated signal on an actual carrier frequency. It's designed to be received by cheap consumer radios in the clear.
- LorenPechtel 2y agoAs I said, making it look like noise.
- hypercube33 2y agoAren't there frequencies that can go through the planet though? I thought even near me there are large antenna farms that broadcast to nuclear submarines. How do you pinpoint those if you're not looking from the air? Just curious. I should probably get my ham
- LorenPechtel 2y agoThe nations capable of fielding SSBNs know where each other's antennas are--they're simply too big to hide.