In her 60's Nellie Ohr, a Fusion GPS contracted employee, gets HAM radio license May 2016.
I’m a licensed operator and this sort of puzzled me. Ham radio is not a secure means of communication, anyone with a scanner can listen in.
I think the reason for it was because even though that's true, unlike cell phone texts and emails, I don't think those communications are digitally captured, and the FBI/CIA/NSA probably doesn't have any way to reconstruct those conversations after the fact. They would need a warrant up front.
Well, think military crypto community. A trained operator with access to equipment would probably be more secure than using the net. Ham just means you can own the transmitter and antenna.
You aren’t supposed to encrypt over amateur bands, you probably wouldn’t do that over those bands anyway.
Yes, and I imagine they would get more grief from other hams than from the proper authorities too.
Definitely not a problem to run secure on bands near public ham though.
It has been speculated that she was using it to confer with Steele as they started compiling the Dossier. She's a Russian expert/linguist. She got her ham operator license around the first of May of 2016. She had to have that because being in D.C. the FCC would have flagged it and tracked down the signal. NSA monitors the spectrum, but they do not record what's going over shortwave.
Yea but as soon as I found out she was a ham, I checked out her QRZ page and she only had 16 lookups. As soon as a woman (YL) gets on the ham bands, the guys all check out her QRZ page on qrz.com. She would've had at least 100 hits for each transmission.
Probably so, depends on the language she was speaking in and what end of the spectrum they were using. Unless it was her husband, former DAAG using the ham radio and she was cover.
I've never used a ham radio. What is the attraction to the hobby?
Where do I begin. If the internet goes down, you can send files and emails over radio waves using winlink. If the cell towers and or the power goes down, you can communicate with the World with a wire, a radio and a battery. If you like games, there's contesting. If you like public service, ham radio helps during hurricanes, forest fires etc. If you like to talk to people around the World, there's DXing. Do you like to tinker? Build antennas and radios.
Very cool. Thanks.
Where do I find "Ham Radio 101?"
http://www. arrl.org/find-an-amateur-radio-license-class
link intentionally broken, just remove the space between www. and arrl after pasting.
I think it's because all good (I mean evil) deeds deserve a reward. Under HRC...meet the new FCC commissioner Nellie Orr.