Ouch! I guess I need to check in more often :O)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF" [email protected] To: "Glenn AA5PK" [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 7:18 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] A little OT: The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown
You're behind the times, Glenn. This was worked to death last week.
Glenn AA5PK wrote:
"On the night of March 8, cruising 22,000 miles above the Earth, U.S. Navy communications satellite FLTSAT-8 suddenly erupted with illicit activity. Jubilant voices and anthems crowded the channel on a junkyard's worth of homemade gear from across vast and silent stretches of the Amazon: Ronaldo, a Brazilian soccer idol, had just scored his first goal with the Corinthians."
"To use the satellite, pirates typically take an ordinary ham radio transmitter, which operates in the 144- to 148-MHZ range, and add a frequency doubler cobbled from coils and a varactor diode. That lets the radio stretch into the lower end of FLTSATCOM's 292- to 317-MHz uplink range. All the gear can be bought near any truck stop for less than $500. Ads on specialized websites offer to perform the conversion for less than $100. Taught the ropes, even rough electricians can make Bolinha-ware."
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2009/04/fleetcom?currentPage=1
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