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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: OgreVorbis on October 29, 2019, 0906 UTC
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With all the shortwave pirates here, I am curious about how easy it is for the FCC to direction find a skywave signal. I would assume it is much harder than for VHF bands. Is it really even practical to do on a vehicle?
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They can probably get a bearing on it. Then they just have to get within groundwave to get your location.
I know that the authorities have traced me to about 10 miles of my location purely on skywave :( Thankfully, where I live they not bothered about me.
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They can probably get a bearing on it. Then they just have to get within groundwave to get your location.
I know that the authorities have traced me to about 10 miles of my location purely on skywave :( Thankfully, where I live they not bothered about me.
It seems that on the lower HF bands, the groundwave doesn't meet the skywave. There is a large ring of no reception surrounding the groundwave. Have you noticed this? This is probably even more significant with horizontal antennas like the inverted V. A good reason to not use a vertical antenna.
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Iono how they do it for certain right now as my info's dated but the fcc can find pretty much anything that hits their ears. No more goniometers or FLR9s, nowadays it's just a few short active monopoles in a straight line a few yards long that feed an sdr, of course each fcc outlet will be listening on channel too. Their mobiles have a fake plastic roof with embedded wire antenna array for df, they can approximate the power output too. The nsa just records and timestamps everything in bulk so they can tdoa anything sexy after the fact.
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FCC Seeks Telecommunications Specialist
10/29/2019
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