[Milsurplus] Yosemite Sam anniversary

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On 12/9/2024 11:34, sbjohnston--- via Milsurplus wrote:
> We are approaching the twentieth anniversary of the Yosemite Sam radio 
> incident.  This was one of my favorite clandestine signals.

One of my favorites!  Has it been that long?  I remember chasing down 
the frequencies, and getting bearings from Nevada.

Somewhere on the web are some really good pages, one documenting all the 
work we did at the time.  Here is one:

http://www.bunkerofdoom.com/monitored/sam/index.html

Some more info:

http://www.mysterysignals.signalshed.com/yosemite.html

One fellow had a blog about chasing it down to the actual site, and some 
trouble he had with security.  He managed to snag a bunch of pictures of 
the site, as well as track down property info, the reservation it was 
on, some employee info, funding, shadow companies, newspaper clippings, 
all sorts of stuff.

I have some saved messages from a ways back, I had forgotten about the 
data burst that had also appeared.  It's mentioned in this post:

"My theory was that it was some sort of government experiment of a new
digital transmission mode. I wasn't able to record any of it but the
transmissions included an 800 ms data burst of some sort."

Some references here, do a search for "yosemite sam":

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Monitoring-TImes/2000s/Monitoring-Times-2005-05.pdf

Nowadays, with good clear reception, I'd be able to snag every single 
bit in the data burst.  I don't recall anyone analyzing that part at the 
time.

There was also "Homer Simpson", aka, "Son Of Yosemite Sam":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-WWMj8tf7k

Another favorite I can find no valid info for, is "The Angry Squirrel".

Kurt