[amsat-bb] Re: A little OT: The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown

[Glenn AA5PK]

Ouch!   I guess I need to check in more often :O)

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From: "Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF" <nigel at ngunn.net>
To: "Glenn AA5PK" <aa5pk at suddenlink.net>
Cc: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] A little OT: The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown


> You're behind the times, Glenn.
> This was worked to death last week.
>
>
> Glenn AA5PK wrote:
>> "On the night of March 8, cruising 22,000 miles above the Earth, U.S. 
>> Navy communications satellite FLTSAT-8 suddenly erupted with illicit 
>> activity. Jubilant voices and anthems crowded the channel on a junkyard's 
>> worth of homemade gear from across vast and silent stretches of the 
>> Amazon: Ronaldo, a Brazilian soccer idol, had just scored his first goal 
>> with the Corinthians."
>>
>> "To use the satellite, pirates typically take an ordinary ham radio 
>> transmitter, which operates in the 144- to 148-MHZ range, and add a 
>> frequency doubler cobbled from coils and a varactor diode. That lets the 
>> radio stretch into the lower end of FLTSATCOM's 292- to 317-MHz uplink 
>> range. All the gear can be bought near any truck stop for less than $500. 
>> Ads on specialized websites offer to perform the conversion for less than 
>> $100. Taught the ropes, even rough electricians can make Bolinha-ware."
>>
>> <http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2009/04/fleetcom?currentPage=1>
>>
>> Glenn AA5PK
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