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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: Zoidberg on June 08, 2015, 0624 UTC

Title: Radio hobbyist identified FBI domestic spy planes a month before mainstream news
Post by: Zoidberg on June 08, 2015, 0624 UTC
How I tracked FBI aerial surveillance (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/how-i-tracked-fbi-aerial-surveillance/)
Those mysterious planes overhead are actually government surveillance aircraft.
by John Wiseman - Jun 3, 2015 7:30pm CDT

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"When mysterious aircraft began flying tight circles over Baltimore in the wake of recent protests there, it soon became clear that they were part of an FBI surveillance fleet. Here, told in his own words and tweets, is the story of how one amateur sleuth helped reveal what the feds were doing. This story was originally posted on Storify and was republished with the author's permission. John Wiseman is a Los Angeles-based engineer."

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"For fun I planespot/radarspot/whatever. I have a little software defined radio dongle that I use to pick up aircraft transponder pings. I can pick up aircraft from all over the Los Angeles basin with it. I log up to one ping per second per aircraft in a database. You can see more information about the setup and information I can receive at this page: Tracking Aircraft Over Los Angeles (http://viewer.gorilla-repl.org/view.html?source=github&user=wiseman&repo=orbital-detector&path=stats.cljw)."
Title: Re: Radio hobbyist identified FBI domestic spy planes a month before mainstream news
Post by: John Poet on June 09, 2015, 1147 UTC
This appears to be the link you were trying for there
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/how-i-tracked-fbi-aerial-surveillance/
Title: Re: Radio hobbyist identified FBI domestic spy planes a month before mainstream news
Post by: Rafman on June 09, 2015, 1930 UTC
Some other filler info here too:
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/monitoring-fbi-surveillance-aircraft-with-ads-b-and-an-rtl-sdr/
Title: Re: Radio hobbyist identified FBI domestic spy planes a month before mainstream news
Post by: RCCI on June 10, 2015, 0041 UTC
Read pretty much all of the article and link info.....What surprises me is how much I'm not surprised... I would imagine the feds have probably monitored HFU at one time or another, though with terrorist website numbers rising...the feds have bigger fish to fry..JMHO
Title: Re: Radio hobbyist identified FBI domestic spy planes a month before mainstream news
Post by: Fred Smith on June 10, 2015, 1605 UTC
This is a plane that was doing much the same thing yesterday in northern Delaware. Circled for hours.