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IMPORTANT? SIGNIFICANT? - DOD Communications Exercise on Feb. 12th | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 20132640  United States02/07/2016 12:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 20132640 United States02/07/2016 12:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Finding out who may be a troublemaker after the chaos begins ahead of time...... Smart Quoting: Anonymous Coward 56929217 This thought has certainly entered my mind - I hope we're both wrong on this! I guess it all depends on whether the DOD will end up being "the good guys" or "the bad guys". Regardless, if/when the SHTF ham radio/shortwave radio will be the only means of communicating and/or getting accurate information from across the country. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 56929217 United States02/07/2016 12:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Agreed - the same type of thought entered my mind when I heard Hannity talking about this concealed carry deal analogous to "life lock" for identity theft. It's a group that you can join that has a "team of lawyers you can call if you have to exercise your second amendment right and protect yourself" My thought was - what a perfect way to assemble a list of people willing to defend themselves in a martial law situation! This is information the government needs to know - make sure they have the appropriate subsidies Same idea and I'm with you - hope I'm wrong in my skepticism |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 20132640 United States02/07/2016 01:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Agreed - the same type of thought entered my mind when I heard Hannity talking about this concealed carry deal analogous to "life lock" for identity theft. It's a group that you can join that has a "team of lawyers you can call if you have to exercise your second amendment right and protect yourself" Quoting: Anonymous Coward 56929217 My thought was - what a perfect way to assemble a list of people willing to defend themselves in a martial law situation! This is information the government needs to know - make sure they have the appropriate subsidies Same idea and I'm with you - hope I'm wrong in my skepticism FWIW I will definitely be checking out those frequencies on the 12th as I am really curious to find out what kind of "...information about your local operating conditions and public infrastructure in your county..." will be dealt with. What does the DOD really mean by "operating conditions" and "infrastructure"? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 53518372 United States02/07/2016 01:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Below is a copy of an email that I received from a Ham radio friend of mine. Considering everything that is going on in our country I find the nature of this exercise and its timing to be rather curious. You may want to pull up one of the online shortwave radios and have a listen during this exercise on the frequencies given in the email below. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 20132640 Please keep in mind that in a SHTF situation the chances that phone and internet communications will be down is EXTREMELY high - the only thing left will be amateur radio (or two tin cans with a string between them). ================================================== From: "ARRL Members Only Web site" Subject: Communications Exercise DoD MARS COMEX Date: February 6, 2016 at 2:52:10 PM MST To: xxxxxxxxxxxx The Department of Defense has scheduled a Communications Exercise (COMEX) for Friday February 12, 2016. The exercise will take place between the hours of 05:00 am to 05:00 pm Mountain Standard Time. The exercise will test the availability of communications without the use of telephones or the internet. All U.S. Amateur Radio Operators are encouraged to participate. You do NOT need to be a member of the Amateur Radio Emergency Service, American Radio Relay League, or any other amateur radio organization. ANY and ALL amateur operators are requested to participate !! Army and Air Force MARS, using regular ham radio call signs, will be forwarding DoD requests for information about your local operating conditions and public infrastructure in your county. Report local conditions as they exist when you respond - no fabricated information, please! New Mexico hams can contact Army and Air Force MARS stations via - 2 meters MegaLink - 40 meters 7.2365 MHz - and 80 meters 3.939 MHz. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Assistant Section Emergency Coordinator - MARS ARRL New Mexico Section 12th Friday then 13th and 14th Sat and Sun and Mon the 15th is a Federal Holiday...President's Day I find the timing highly suspect hmmmmm?????  |
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Phennommennonn Forum Administrator  02/07/2016 09:28 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Below is a copy of an email that I received from a Ham radio friend of mine. Considering everything that is going on in our country I find the nature of this exercise and its timing to be rather curious. You may want to pull up one of the online shortwave radios and have a listen during this exercise on the frequencies given in the email below. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 20132640 Please keep in mind that in a SHTF situation the chances that phone and internet communications will be down is EXTREMELY high - the only thing left will be amateur radio (or two tin cans with a string between them). ================================================== From: "ARRL Members Only Web site" Subject: Communications Exercise DoD MARS COMEX Date: February 6, 2016 at 2:52:10 PM MST To: xxxxxxxxxxxx The Department of Defense has scheduled a Communications Exercise (COMEX) for Friday February 12, 2016. The exercise will take place between the hours of 05:00 am to 05:00 pm Mountain Standard Time. The exercise will test the availability of communications without the use of telephones or the internet. All U.S. Amateur Radio Operators are encouraged to participate. You do NOT need to be a member of the Amateur Radio Emergency Service, American Radio Relay League, or any other amateur radio organization. ANY and ALL amateur operators are requested to participate !! Army and Air Force MARS, using regular ham radio call signs, will be forwarding DoD requests for information about your local operating conditions and public infrastructure in your county. Report local conditions as they exist when you respond - no fabricated information, please! New Mexico hams can contact Army and Air Force MARS stations via - 2 meters MegaLink - 40 meters 7.2365 MHz - and 80 meters 3.939 MHz. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Assistant Section Emergency Coordinator - MARS ARRL New Mexico Section the nevy is doin activr shooter drills too this month i think i had posted that in the glp news other day political correctness is a doctrine.... fostered by a delusional, illogical minority...... and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media; which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. |
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| -VonAmoR- User ID: 70946067 United States02/07/2016 09:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Same day when the Pope and the Orthodox Patriarch meet in Cuba. It is a historic meeting. They attempted this meeting 20 years ago, but it failed. Of course, if you know what I am claiming, you will understand why that failed 20 years ago. Remember the "20 years" of my living among the masses? Now, this is going to be very interesting. FEBRUARY 12, 2016 <<<< A day to watch out for. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 69724353 United States02/07/2016 09:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Finding out who may be a troublemaker after the chaos begins ahead of time...... Smart Quoting: Anonymous Coward 56929217 Being a licensed amateur radio operator means that your name and home address (I'm sorry, 'permanent station location') is listed in a public database that anyone can look up. Just get a baofeng and operate illegal Fuck the FCC they took away television FUCK THE FCC Notjng will stop American comms, we don't need the milspecs if they dont want to play nice, thats their choice. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 69724353 United States02/07/2016 09:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fuck those who dare tread on Americans communications and who scheme to deafen or blind us. Non Americans, we see you, as destroyers. You took away Monday Night Football and all UHF, you have no future here. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 69092793  Canada02/07/2016 10:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Seems like a harmless excercise. If "they" ever wanted to, they could jam every HAM radio in the country in about one minute. It's way cheaper than sending a drone or Apache and spending one Hellfire missile per HAM shack. If "they" ever wanted to map all the HAMs, I'm sure they've done this a hundred times over with drones and satellites without anyone being the wiser. |
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| c4g3 User ID: 49795364 United States02/07/2016 11:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Much easier to expose these signals now, than after something happens and everyone goes dark! - It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men. - The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. - Samuel Adams - "When injustice becomes law resistance becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson - |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 57381920 United States02/07/2016 01:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Seems like a harmless excercise. Quoting: Dingleberry Harvester If "they" ever wanted to, they could jam every HAM radio in the country in about one minute. It's way cheaper than sending a drone or Apache and spending one Hellfire missile per HAM shack. If "they" ever wanted to map all the HAMs, I'm sure they've done this a hundred times over with drones and satellites without anyone being the wiser. Ham radio below 27 Mhz is very difficult to geolocate. I'd include the CB band as well. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 69176039 Canada02/07/2016 01:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Seems like a harmless excercise. Quoting: Dingleberry Harvester If "they" ever wanted to, they could jam every HAM radio in the country in about one minute. It's way cheaper than sending a drone or Apache and spending one Hellfire missile per HAM shack. If "they" ever wanted to map all the HAMs, I'm sure they've done this a hundred times over with drones and satellites without anyone being the wiser. Ham radio below 27 Mhz is very difficult to geolocate. I'd include the CB band as well. "They" could locate the EMF given off by spark plugs in running engines under tree canopies 40+ years ago, close enough to take it out a jet and a dumb gravity dropped 250 or 500 pounder. Im sure today anything under 27 MHz would be childs play. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 22855745 United States02/07/2016 01:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Finding out who may be a troublemaker after the chaos begins ahead of time...... Smart Quoting: Anonymous Coward 56929217 This thought has certainly entered my mind - I hope we're both wrong on this! I guess it all depends on whether the DOD will end up being "the good guys" or "the bad guys". Regardless, if/when the SHTF ham radio/shortwave radio will be the only means of communicating and/or getting accurate information from across the country. and few people have a ham radio...all I got is a battery operated AM/FM |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 55915768 United States02/07/2016 02:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | sounds like they preparing for the power grid to get taken offline. seriously it makes sense, they just preparing in case this could happen. was told that our U.S. power grid infrastructure is weak and vulnerable. systems of this nature need to be upgraded because it is these obsolete systems that give would be hackers the keys to the kingdom. |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 20132640 United States02/08/2016 12:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The gentleman that originally sent the email notification of this exercise to my friend provided the following response to the question "Are you aware of the FCC ever doing an exercise like this in the past?": His response: "To my knowledge and my back ground with MARS for past 35 years or so I have never seen an exercise like this. Usually only the armed forces day which uses HF cross banding is the only operation between military (MARS) and regular amateurs." As I have stated before, this, to me, is a real curiosity! BTW - MARS stands for Military Auxilliary Radio System |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 52195379  Netherlands02/08/2016 01:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Finding out who may be a troublemaker after the chaos begins ahead of time...... Smart Quoting: Anonymous Coward 56929217 This thought has certainly entered my mind - I hope we're both wrong on this! I guess it all depends on whether the DOD will end up being "the good guys" or "the bad guys". Regardless, if/when the SHTF ham radio/shortwave radio will be the only means of communicating and/or getting accurate information from across the country. FFS are you really that naive? They're lining up the independents. preppers, off grid 'challengers'. Maintain total radio silence. |
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