[amsat-bb] Satellite pirates.

[tjschuessler at verizon.net]

The biggest satellite pirate was  "Captain Midnight" the guy who was able to
overpower the uplink signal for HBO on Hughes Galaxy 1 (If I remember
right).  This whole incident caused the FCC to enact rules that continuously
Identified the RF uplink (ATIS, Automatic Transmit ID System, I thing again
I am remembering right).  Every satellite uplink truck, flypack and
permanent site had to have uplinks capable of doing this.  Some were IDs
burned into the vertical interval, some as CW IDs.  

One of the first piracy solutions for both uplink and downlink was the
analog enription schemes that began to be popular in the later 1980s that
killed the TVRO C Band backyard dish industry.  


Tom, N5HYP

Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 09:34:08 -0700
From: Bryan Green <bryan at kl7cn.net>
To: Mike Diehl <diehl.mike.a at gmail.com>
Cc: AMSAT-BB at amsat.org,	Ground Station
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Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Satellite pirates.
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Perhaps he meant the Brazilian folk who commonly use the uncontrolled US
Navy satellites for communication:

https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/

-- bag

Bryan KL7CN/W6
bryan at kl7cn.net

> On Aug 3, 2019, at 09:30, Mike Diehl via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:
> 
> The article you linked to was quite lengthy so I skimmed over it. From
what I can tell it?s all about receiving pay television programming. Cant
figure out how this applies to an amateur radio satellite. 
> 
> 73,
> Mike Diehl
> W8LID/VE6LID
> 
>> On Aug 3, 2019, at 07:28, KC9SGV via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>> 
>> ?Hi All,
>> Just getting into this aspect of GEO satellite security...
>> I found this very informative, though old article about satellite 
>> pirates and their hacking techniques in the old days of satellite TV 
>> (ca. 1993)
>> 
>> Since any new ham GEO satellite might be an emolation of these earlier TV
satellites, it is imperative that some sort of security for the system might
be prudent.
>> 
>> http://www.nmia.com/~roberts/sat.pirates
>> 
>> Bernard,
>> KC9SGV
>> 
>> 
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