[Spooks] Spooks Digest, Vol 78, Issue 26

[The Doctor]

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Beaumont, Paul wrote:

> Embassy radio equipment, especially from the Iron Curtain,  is nothing
> like Ham or in some cases, Military gear. It can be accessed remotely,
> reprogrammed and retransmit messages without any human intervention.
> They are really nice bits of kit too.

A couple of years ago at a conference (The Last HOPE, July 2008) there
was a panel on unusual communications methods ("Off the Grid Voice/Data
Communications", by bernieS and Skip Avery, and I think one or two other
people).  Near the end of the panel one of the presenters held up a
shoebox sized shortwave transmitted that he called a grenade (if he gave
the official name for it, I don't remember what it is off the top of my
head). It was claimed that they were very sturdy and had been used to
set up numbers stations a few times in the past.

I don't know anything else about it, but visually it seemed to fit the
description of military RF gear: big, sturdy, chunky, and probably able
to take a 20 foot fall without breaking.

If anyone's interested, the audio of the presentation can be downloaded
(officially, legally, and for free) from here:

http://www.thelasthope.org/media/audio/64kbps/Off_the_Grid_VoiceData_Communications.mp3

It's near the end of the recording; if anyone knows anything more about
this transmitter I'd be interested in asking a couple of questions about it.

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