[FedCom] Protection of Radio Frequency

[Greg Brazil]

Well, I was on Mt. St. Helena on Wednesday at a radio site about 4000 
foot high and lo & behold there was a CAP repeater marked:
Rx 143.9
Tx 148.15

Mt. St. Helena is at the north end of the Napa Valley, Napa County right 
before you go into Lake County on Highway 29.

There goes security all to hell.
Greg (SF Bay Area)

don wrote:

> FILE UNDER: SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED
> 
> Lists of radio frequencies assigned to the U.S. Air Force's Civil Air
> Patrol (CAP) will henceforth be withheld from public disclosure,
> according to a January 2006 memorandum from the CAP National
> Commander.
> 
> "It has come to our attention that the radio frequency assignments
> provided us by the USAF are considered sensitive information and
> require protection from unauthorized release," wrote Maj. General
> Antonio J. Pineda.
> 
> "Such [information] must be removed from public access, such as on
> the Web, and may not be released to outside agencies without
> coordination," he wrote.
> 
> "As we prepare for an increased role in Homeland Security, it is very
> likely we will encounter additional information requiring our
> protection."
> 
> "A rigid stance on information security shows that we continue to be
> a professional partner in the defense of our nation," he wrote.
> 
> "A rigid stance on information security," of course, is the source
> and the driver of a whole set of other problems.  But that is beyond
> the scope of this memo.
> 
> See "Protection of Radio Frequency Information," US Air Force Civil
> Air Patrol, January 20, 2006:
> 
>     http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2006/01/cap012006.pdf
> Don
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