[amsat-bb] Satellite pirates.

[John Brier]

Wow! I had never heard of this. The wikipedia article has a ton of
info about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight_broadcast_signal_intrusion

Thanks for sharing.

73, John Brier KG4AKV

On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 8:37 PM Tom Schuessler, N5HYP via AMSAT-BB
<amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>
> 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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