Yeah sorry I meant like from different places in a city, not just not at home.
It’s for sure rude and not something I’d try/recommend but we’re talking about espionage here.
Am I wrong in thinking that if I wanted to propagate revolutionary thought and went to a different neighbourhood with an HT and transmitted to the local repeater, it would be hard for the state to find me if my transmission was less than 5 minutes?
I’m saying an intermittent signal from varying locations would not be easy to trace. ARDF is a nearly continuous signal from immobile stations and it is not trivial, it is competitive.
It’s laughably easy for them to track you down if you don’t.
ranked competitive version is called foxhunting and even kid can do it
Not with a handheld that you don’t use at home. But correct me if I’m wrong.
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Yeah sorry I meant like from different places in a city, not just not at home.
It’s for sure rude and not something I’d try/recommend but we’re talking about espionage here.
Am I wrong in thinking that if I wanted to propagate revolutionary thought and went to a different neighbourhood with an HT and transmitted to the local repeater, it would be hard for the state to find me if my transmission was less than 5 minutes?
It just takes 3 or more synchronized receive stations to pinpoint your location. The state has an unlimited budget compared to you.
3 synchronized receive stations to fix my location, and then what would they do?
Ideally, if you planned your transmission well, they would conclude “about a thousand suspects live in this circle, but is the suspect a local?”. :)
You can still be tracked while broadcasting.
It’s not laughably easy.
It is, though. Finding the source of a radio signal is a trivial task for a government. They currently do it all the time.
Heck, it’s so easy that it’s a legitimate competitive sport that some grade schools use in their PE program.
I’m saying an intermittent signal from varying locations would not be easy to trace. ARDF is a nearly continuous signal from immobile stations and it is not trivial, it is competitive.
It’s not significantly more difficult than transmitting from a mobile station.
We are taking about hiding from a government. They could pinpoint you in seconds.