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> The paranoid folks believe the FCC is trying to move all of the unlicensed stuff into the GHz+ range to limit long range communications. I am so paranoid I t
by fidotron 2y ago
> The paranoid folks believe the FCC is trying to move all of the unlicensed stuff into the GHz+ range to limit long range communications.
I am so paranoid I think that if the FCC are doing this they are right to, or may at least have a point.
We need to accept the radio spectrum is part of the cyber security profile of the area of the country.
To drop a giant hint, something that listens to one thing in remote areas, transmits the results via another channel, over a series of hops and then out of the country, would be of great interest to some people.
The restrictions are annoying, but my belief is the FCC (and international equivalents) should promote amateur radio licensing by committing to protecting licensed usage in the existing amateur bands, and get more HAMs inside the tent pissing in the outward direction.
- im3w1l 2y ago> something that listens to one thing in remote areas, transmits the results via another channel, over a series of hops and then out of the country, would be of great interest to some people. Is preventing this even possible in todays world?
- fidotron 2y agoNo, but you can at least try to prevent someone being able to hide it in the noise.
- jki275 2y agoThat ship sailed long ago. there are tons of satellites that make that completely impossible to control.
- fidotron 2y agoIt will change fast when a non NATO aligned entity attempts to deploy their Starlink.
- brookst 2y agoYou mean like Thousand Sails [1]? 1. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/08/06/china-launches-its-rival-to-elon-musks-starlink-internet-satellites.html https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/08/06/china-launches-its-rival...
- tim333 2y agoNot as high tech as Starlink - one geostationary satellite - but twenty years ago I was using Thuraya, a Dubai based satellite service, to communicate from Tibet in a way that was not officially allowed by the Chinese but they couldn't do much about unless they searched my luggage for the phone I guess.
- jki275 2y agoI've used Thuraya in a region of the world not far from there as well. Globalstar, Iridium, Inmarsat were all available at the time as well.
- m4rtink 2y agoChina is deploying one, complete with exploding upper stages shedding debris into long lived orbits. Only strongly worded complaints so far...
- jasonjayr 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMSAT-OSCAR_7#Use_by_Polish_anticommunist_opposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMSAT-OSCAR_7#Use_by_Polish_an... The oldest operating satellite (older than the Voyagers) appeared to fail to due a battery issue, but somehow woke up in a mostly-working state soon after. It was noticed by activitsts in Poland, and was used to bounce radio messages out of the country. Since satellite communication is pretty directional, and into the sky, it was difficult-to-impossible to triangulate the source of the signals.