[amsat-bb] Re: FLTSATCOM Hacked

[Eric Fort]

One of the primary justifications (for someone to subsidize the launch cost)
I have heard floated for a amateur radio geo stationary satellite has been
public service and emergency communications.  How would those on the list
here feel about such a  satellite should it come to exist being able to be
configured such that only authorized users could use it and others lacking
the channel keys would have no access, nor could they interfere.  I'm
thinking for certain circumstances a jam resistant controlled access mode on
such a resource could be useful.  What do you think?

Eric
AF6EP

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Mark Spencer <mspencer12345 at yahoo.ca>wrote:

>
> Yeah...   I believe this has been going on for a number of years.  (I
> recall reading about this on another board.)
>
> I believe the satellites in question use FM and geo stationary orbits and
> have up links and down links in the miltary UHF band (225 thru 400 mhz.)
>
> Kind of makes you wonder what would happen if there was a geo stationary
> amateur satlleite that was easy to use.   If pirates will hack military
> satellites then I doubt they would have any qualms about using an amateur
> satellite.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "tom at bloomington.com" <tom at bloomington.com>
> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:30:38 PM
> Subject: [amsat-bb] FLTSATCOM Hacked
>
>
> Tom WB8WOR thought you'd like to see this on wired.com
>
> It sort of puts to lie the argument that transponders are hard to use.  I
> suppose it helps that they are in geosynchronous orbits.
>
> I especially found this part interesting:
>
>   "I saw it more than once in truck repair shops," says amateur radio
>   operator Adinei Brochi (PY2ADN) "Nearly illiterate men rigged a radio
>   in less than one minute, rolling wire on a coil."
>
>
>
> Click here to see the page on wired.com:
> http://www.wired.com/services/referral?messageKey=6eb844662798d55ab60eb665b38fbf29
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