Military Censorship & Potential Radio System Inteference Re: [MilCom] MT Feb 06 Milcom Related Article

[Ken]

Hello Mike & the Group:

I've noted that the Radio Reference site webmaster appears to have complied 
with ANY federal or military formal request to remove information from the 
site, HOWEVER, has basically refused to remove local/county/state trunking 
information from the site even when similar requests are received.  Perhaps 
the feds have personally visited him???

I'm also aware of one other website that was asked to remove the input 
frequencies for one military base's new P25 conventional radio nets 
repeaters systems.

For MANY years, military base frequency/radio systems information has been 
published in various commercial frequency directories, monthly hobby 
magazines, websites, & newsgroups such as this, without any attempt by 
military/federal officials to remove them.  At least one publication 
('Monitoring Times' magazine) has on a monthly basis continued to publish 
P25 radio information to include both input/output frequencies if know, as 
well as numerous miliary aero related tactical/command post, etc. 
frequencies.  Will "freedom of the press" continue with these publications, 
or will they too be forced into not publishing this type of information in 
the future?

Historically (30+ years) the publication of numerous listings of  military 
bases radios nets NFM analog frequencies (input & output) has provided 
information, that at least technically, appears to have had the potential of 
more easily interfering with base support radio system nets.  The current 
P25 conventional or trunked radio systems would (I'd assume) would require a 
much more sophisticated/technically proficiency to cause inteference than 
the former systems???!!! OR is my technical inadequacy  missing something?

Surely, military officials should be planning for the worst case scenerio 
(e.g. trunked radio system/conventional radio repeater systems) being not 
operational for ANY REASON, through various exercise that test simplex 
operations capabilities throughout a military base!!!!     If some hobbyists 
armed only with a digital capable scanner, etrunker program, and perhaps a 
scanner with "signal stalking"/"close call capture" can relatively easily 
find out this frequency/trunking radio information, just think what someone 
with more resources could find out???

So again, I have to wonder why internet websites seem to be targeted by 
federal/military officials, yet other publications (magazines, frequency 
directories) appear to be ignored.....

Ken




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Riffle" <kc8mzm at gmail.com>
To: "MilCom" <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: [MilCom] MT Feb 06 Milcom Related Article


snip..snip..
http://www.radioreference.com/trunked/donotpost/fort_benning.pdf

snip..snip..
I find it interesting that the last 3 letters received at RR
requesting the removal of information have all come from the US Army
and they all have a common theme - that the posting of trunked radio
system information could result in interference to their systems.