Wow! I had never heard of this. The wikipedia article has a ton of info about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight_broadcast_signal_intrusion
Thanks for sharing.
73, John Brier KG4AKV
On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 8:37 PM Tom Schuessler, N5HYP via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:
The biggest satellite pirate was "Captain Midnight" the guy who was able to overpower the uplink signal for HBO on Hughes Galaxy 1 (If I remember right). This whole incident caused the FCC to enact rules that continuously Identified the RF uplink (ATIS, Automatic Transmit ID System, I thing again I am remembering right). Every satellite uplink truck, flypack and permanent site had to have uplinks capable of doing this. Some were IDs burned into the vertical interval, some as CW IDs.
One of the first piracy solutions for both uplink and downlink was the analog enription schemes that began to be popular in the later 1980s that killed the TVRO C Band backyard dish industry.
Tom, N5HYP
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 09:34:08 -0700 From: Bryan Green [email protected] To: Mike Diehl [email protected] Cc: [email protected], Ground Station [email protected] Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Satellite pirates. Message-ID: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Perhaps he meant the Brazilian folk who commonly use the uncontrolled US Navy satellites for communication:
https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/
-- bag
Bryan KL7CN/W6 [email protected]
On Aug 3, 2019, at 09:30, Mike Diehl via AMSAT-BB [email protected]
wrote:
The article you linked to was quite lengthy so I skimmed over it. From
what I can tell it?s all about receiving pay television programming. Cant figure out how this applies to an amateur radio satellite.
73, Mike Diehl W8LID/VE6LID
On Aug 3, 2019, at 07:28, KC9SGV via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:
?Hi All, Just getting into this aspect of GEO satellite security... I found this very informative, though old article about satellite pirates and their hacking techniques in the old days of satellite TV (ca. 1993)
Since any new ham GEO satellite might be an emolation of these earlier TV
satellites, it is imperative that some sort of security for the system might be prudent.
http://www.nmia.com/~roberts/sat.pirates
Bernard, KC9SGV
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