On Air Frequency Finding Techniques Potential Trouble?? Re: [FedCom] Civil Air Patrol Tightens OpSecurity RadioCommsInformation

[Ken]

Hello Tom:

Nice to hear from you......

At this point there's NO indication that the typical CAP radio 
communications will be encrypted.

Regarding the use of close capture/"signal stalker" technology.  Sometimes 
it works & sometime it doesn't (I'm surprised sometimes at the distance that 
it works at & at other times when I expecting something, well nothing 
happens!!!), BUT the actual scanner searching the bands 138-144, 148-150.8 
mhz is more of a sure thing.  If you have this technology available, it 
wouldn't hurt to try it "at the right time & right place", BUT I don't think 
CAP would be very happy if a bunch of "crazy" (lets changed that to 
"strongly determined") radio scanner hobbyists showed up parked outside 
their buildings during meeting nights with "close call" radio scanner 
equipment.  My guess is that local law enforcement officials would be called 
about a "suspicious" person in a vehicle, since both cadets (teenagers) & 
adults belong & attend these meetings.   What would be VERY interesting is 
what the hobbyists would tell law enforcement as to why he/she was "parked" 
at that location, after the typical license, registration, & criminal record 
checks were conducted.  You might find yourself getting a lot more questions 
& could possible be the subject of a  "TALON" report (or whateever the 
civilian LE's call it) being upchanneled to some federal three letter data 
base!!!!

My advice is not to do any "on scene's" next to CAP facilities!

Ken



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom M." <courir26 at yahoo.com>
To: "Discussion of Federal Government Communications" 
<fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 2:17 PM
Subject: RE: [FedCom] Civil Air Patrol Tightens OpSecurity 
RadioCommsInformation


> All it would take is a Uniden hand-held with Close Call to sort out all 
> the
> freqs and PLs. Is CAP going to be encrypted, or did I miss something?
>
> This is a pretty simple puzzle to solve.