It is fairly short range. 9600bps @ about 162MHz doesn't travel much further than the curvature of the earth. If you started jamming it the FCC and the Coast Gu

It is fairly short range. 9600bps @ about 162MHz doesn't travel much further than the curvature of the earth. If you started jamming it the FCC and the Coast Guard would become interested fairly quickly since they now use this as part of the port security system.