I once went to the 1.2 GHz Ham band -- operated simplex reduced power --
across town to a buddy in a "Private QSO"
Yep you guessed it -- another ham called me on the phone and read me the
riot act about something I had sed.

No place to (hide) transmit!

"Floyd Davidson" wrote in message
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(Brian Kelly) wrote:
Floyd Davidson wrote in message
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Why do so many of you folks get so excited about denying that
the FCC has a rather sophisticated national spectrum monitoring
system?

Actually when you think about it the FCC is only one player in the
monitoring loop Floyd. NSA, the DoD and the CIA have and have had
monitoring capabilities which make the FCC's look quite lame in

Very few people seem to realize the extent of that, or even
begin to consider how it relates to specifically to themselves
on a very personal basis.

I am retired from the telecommunication industry. I've been
trying for literally decades to convince people that they should
*never* say anything on a telephone if they can't live with
seeing it published the next day on the front page of the local
newspaper.

That applies to *anything* communicated via a radio
transmission. If someone thinks they and the person they are
talking to are the only ones listening, they are *wrong*.

comparison. They have massive spook sites globally plus who knows how
many satellites snooping everywhere. Lookit how they've even tuned in
terrorist cell phones recently. Whizzy scary! These guys historically
could have cared less about digging up the bull****-level SW & FM
pirates, they have bigger fish to fry.

But then along comes this Homeland Security drill. One of if not the
primary thrust of the Homeland Security Dept. is to stitch together
assets which have not been working with each other in the past.
Including the various monitoring assets of course. And the networking
technology is in place.

It's obvious that if they gave a rat's patooie about pirates the FCC
can probably tap into the spook monitoring assets at will in addition
to using their own. Thus it is that the monitoring threat to pirates
has ratcheted up enormously vs. the bull**** posted around here about
the FCC going out of the monitoring biz.

Exactly!

The FCC is out of the monitoring business about as far as politicians
are out of the lying business.

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Floyd L. Davidson http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)