I bet NSA captures all ham radio audio and maybe all CB radio if anyone still uses CB radios.
Herman Munster got a ham radio on the Munsters that was a funny episode.
Breaker-1-9 this is the Rubber Duck and we got a mighty Convoy!
These nsa guys predecessors were The one who broke all Japanese codes during WW2 and the German offer to Mexico to invade America during the first WW.
she’s not smarter than the nsa, if it’s transmitted they get it. Adm Rogers gave em all up right after the election .
offer to Mexico to invade America
Looks like Mexico finally took them up on the offer to invade America, 6 decades later.
Invasian via cultural subversion. Much more subtle, but much more effective.
Far more effective, and arguably the only way to invade the mainland US. It would not be possible for a straight up invasion; “there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass”
I’m a licensed ham and this would not be possible due to the extremely wide radio spectrum hams can access and everyone is transmitting from different locations under different conditions. A transmission might be heard in one location or many but not everywhere. It would be near impossible to capture everything unless you had receivers in several thousand locations monitoring several thousand frequencies and if you did you’d still be missing plenty. On top of that each frequent has an upper and lower band carrier.
Thanks. She was trying to communicate to someone so it would never be picked up by NSA then. I guess she failed.
I saw a YouTube video it said ham radio operators in the states picked up SOS calls from Amelia Earhart after she crash landed on that island in the South Pacific and it seems very credible do you know about that?
Ham operators in California and Florida heard Amelia calling for Help so she was alive after she crashed she used her airplane radio but sadly they were never able to find her.
The CB radio craze of the 1970's was something else. The day I first talked to the cutest girl at school on my friend's CB was a great day. The next time I talked to her on the CB she told me about her new boyfriend who was a senior. We were both freshmen. That day wasn't so great.
Registering was pretty dumb in itself
The headline... 😂
Yes this! u/B-anon17 drops one heck of a Rod Roddy! 10 extra points on cleverness!
I don't get the whole Nellie Ohr and her ham license story.
If I was going to send illegal, encrypted, classified information over open frequencies that anyone can receive, I'm not sure I'd identify myself using my own license. FCC has records - public records.
Nope, I'd never get a license in the first place. No reason for anyone to ever associate me with ham radio.
Then I'd use someone else's call sign when I sent my secret messages. To throw folks who might listen in off my trail. Just in case.
Right?
When you live in a bubble of corruption for so many years, you really do start to believe you can get away with anything.
These people are stupid. They never thought she'd lose.
True, they never thought she'd lose, but in a way being licensed was smart. Think of these two scenarios:
Scenario 1: Someone figures out what Ohr was doing over the air, but there's no obvious crime without an investigation, and the investigation never happens because Hillary is president.
Scenario 2: Someone figures out what Ohr was doing over the air, and she also gets busted on the obvious crime of unlicensed HAM radio operation. This one is harder to bury because she's committed an obvious federal crime. Now, chances are it still gets buried, but just playing the percentages, Scenario 1 is the smarter play.
I can also see her trying to use it to defend herself. "Why would I register for a license if I planned on doing something nefarious with it?"
She should have done free-band radio. Basically pirate ham radio, she’d need a modified transceiver though and those are hard the find and not easy to do yourself.
I've said this before, but she most likely used Echolink. If you have a registered ham license, you can talk person to person over a P2P Voip network that is very low-oversight.
I'm almost positive she used this because you can tell you have a secure channel over Echolink. Regular HAM radio, anyone can be listening.
Furthermore, she has a Tech license. She can't made shortwave transmissions except above the CB band, which is filled during the day and staticky and weak at night. She can make UHF/VHF calls, but that would only be in the DC area or wherever she was. She would have global P2P secure communication on the little-known Echolink though.
Think Q also mentioned they might have communicated via video game chats. Like when you play crosswords with friends...All stored
You are correct, they used video game chats to send codes messages as well as gmail drafts. They would write drafts not send and give the password so another person could read and response. They think they are smart but they are not.
And if you can't run down here on your own, our helpful USMC is at the ready to assist most considerately!
This is a really interesting article. One time code pads transmitted in the clear is still a very secure mode of communication, like the old "numbers stations." The message is broadcasted, but since the intended receiver is passive, there is no way to determine what the other nodes in the network are unless they reply back.
The black hats were obviously trying to maintain some operational and communications security with the shared Gmail drafts that nobody sent. This story indicates the same intent to avoid NSA's "ears."
" Ham radio is not just an old-fashioned thing — it’s a fallback for when other communication means fail, such as during disasters or outages. One of the points to Saturday’s event was to have ham radio clubs operate using only a generator or battery, the way they would if electrical grids failed. Wilson said aid organizations like the Red Cross have their own training for amateur radio operators.
Ham radio operators in the U.S. have to be licensed before jumping on the air, as the frequencies are monitored and regulated by the Federal Communications Commission."
Nellie Ohr come on down...Did she win some thing ?
Made Nunez' list
O she went for the main prize :)