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.
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.