Terror attack will send LA back to landlines Traffic and phone jams for LALos Angeles police are working out a way to jam all mobile phones and wireless devices in the event of a terror attack. The plan is being drawn up by Sheriff Lee Baca and other law enforcement authorities. Baca was a bit spooked that terrorists used cell phones to detonate explosives in the case of the March 11 railway bombings in Spain. During a junket, er, fact finding mission to Pakistan, he was told how phone jamming technology had helped thwart the attempted assassination of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in December. Baca told the LA Daily News that public safety was more important that public convenience and he was looking at methods to use phone jamming in the event of an attack. Full Story at The Inquirer
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  drjimPremium,MVM
join:2000-06-13
Long Beach, CA
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| HUH? Why bother to jam them? Just have the providers shut the system down. I could maybe see "jamming" in select areas, but county-wide? I was in a restaurant the other day, and as soon as I walked in, my phone beeped, and gave me a "No Service" warning. Think I'll go back with my Optoelectronics Scout and see what they're doing.
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|  |  CurtesyFlushBababooey, fafafooey, tatatoothy.Premium
join:2002-08-23
Fontana, CA
kudos:2 | Re: HUH? said by drjim:
Think I'll go back with my Optoelectronics Scout and see what they're doing.
Ah so, another RF'er in the bunch. | |
| | | drjimPremium,MVM
join:2000-06-13
Long Beach, CA
kudos:3 | Re: HUH? Yep, there's a bunch of us out here. I've met at least half a dozen other Hams here.
73, KQ6EA
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| | | | CurtesyFlushBababooey, fafafooey, tatatoothy.Premium
join:2002-08-23
Fontana, CA
kudos:2 | Re: HUH? Not a Ham here, Doc. Some of my oldest and dearest friends are, but for me, a combination of a royal snubbing by local old fart hams when I was just a boy (a radio geek boy, I might add) and my long time refusal to learn what I considered to be a useless skill, just mind clutter, you know what I'm talking about.... MORSE CODE! By the time the no code levels showed up, I'd moved on to other areas of radio. I owned and operated my own LMR dealership, and was factory auth sales and service for EF Johnson, Yaesu, Fujitsu-Ten, Kenwood and Mot Radius. I'm and OLD TIME Public Service band monitor enthusiast, dating back to the pre scanner days when the hot setup was a 3 band tuneable Lafayette with 6 xtal positions and a 1kHz cunt hair filter.
I've owned at least 1 of every scanning monitor radio ever made, but stupidly shitcanned everything a few years back during my crazy days following the death of a family member.
Do you remember the Regency scanners that you programmed by snapping the long comb things out of a programming "comb"?
Nowadays I just AM BCB and SW DX, nothing else.
Glad to know ya!
Jack | |
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