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anarchist pirate radio tracking Strelok 04/23/18 (Mon) 15:28:02 9715d9 No.574997

How does one go about triangulating a pirate radio station? What kind of equipment would I need? I know this isn't explicitly /k/ related but since there are a lot of hamfags here I thought I would ask…

Pic related.

Strelok 04/23/18 (Mon) 15:56:27 578356 No.575003

Wrong board. Try:

>>>/tech/

>>>/liberty/

Strelok 04/23/18 (Mon) 16:07:41 3becc9 No.575004

As far as I know? Get a FM signal strength indicator and play 'warmer, colder'.

If they're smart, they'll be using a repeater some distance away from the actual 'studio'. The 'studio' will be using a low power directional transmitter pointed directly at the repeater. The repeater listens on one frequency, and, using a much more powerful transmitter, repeats it on a different frequency. They will also be listening to what the repeater broadcasts, so if it goes down, they know to GTFO.

It probably won't do shit, but try contacting the FCC. If they've got the manpower to chase down transhitting unlicensed HAMs, they have the capacity to do this as well.

Strelok 04/23/18 (Mon) 16:15:53 c654be No.575006

Stop spamming these off-topic threads, reported

Strelok 04/23/18 (Mon) 16:42:23 d43e24 No.575015

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>1: Procure RDF kit

>2: Take a reading on the target frequency, log location and bearing.

>3: Repeat, from at least 3 locations that are at least a few km apart. The more readings and the further apart they are the more accurate your estimates can be (assuming you can map them sufficiently accurately) but you hit diminishing returns pretty quickly

>4: Chart the locations and bearings you've recorded, extend the lines until they intersect, odds are that your signal is coming from within a few hundred meters of that point, mark and note the area you're going to search

>5: Search the area

>6: Find the broadcast

>7: If it's a repeater rather than the actual studio get the frequency it's receiving on and return to step 2 - repeat as necessary.

What are you planning to do when you pin down their location?

Strelok 04/23/18 (Mon) 16:50:10 73e71c No.575017

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>find local forest

>wait for a hot, dry, bushfire prone day

>throw down a couple of beer bottles, petrol, some matches too across four sides of the bush

>wait for bushfire

>enjoy as you hear of a burnt out pirate station being found along with three unidentifiable bodies

Don't leave a trace, and you'll fine, I promise.

Strelok 04/23/18 (Mon) 19:43:25 c654be No.575039

>crossposting

End yourself, OP

Strelok 04/23/18 (Mon) 19:53:16 d43e24 No.575041

>>575017

Come on Japan, you do know that this sort of shit is why the Burgers demilitarised you after the war, don't you?

Strelok 04/23/18 (Mon) 20:40:10 e37eed No.575047

>/k/ can't even google nowadays

Dark times ahead.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_direction_finding

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_direction_finder

Basically you take two directional antenna loops and set them up in a 90° angle to each other. Then you take them both and hook them up to one axis on an osciloscope each.

When a signal comes from a certain direction it will increase the measured intensity of each axis seperately on the osciloscope, creating a line that directly goes from the target through the center to the opposite side. Now hook up a normal antenna. The shift in phase between this antenna and the other two can be used to eliminate the false direction on the screen and get essentially an "anarchist in this direction" device.

Put it on your car (locating the source of a signal is not illegal, you are not broadcadting anything) and keep driving towards the signal.

This is WWI tech, for fucks sake. /k/ is embarassing sometimes.

Strelok 04/23/18 (Mon) 22:03:35 d6b52b No.575053

Contact the FCC and let the Federal prison rape commence. Blatant threat against law enforcement on the poster ensures extra time in the pen.

Strelok 04/23/18 (Mon) 23:19:19 9c182a No.575062

>>575047

You're the one copy-pasting HF DFing techniques from WW2 like it's still state-of-the-art. When the second step of the plan is

>hook them up to one axis of an oscilioscope each

You should hit google again and look for cheaper and more up-to-date methods. /k/ is embarrassing sometimes.

OP, DFing is a fairly popular part of the amateur radio hobby, there's plenty of guides online to technique and antenna construction. Hell if you apply what you learn I'm fairly certain you can create a system that can almost immediately locate any signal source within a given band that transmits within, ~100sqkm, all for perhaps $300-500, haven't priced out the additional components.

Strelok 04/24/18 (Tue) 01:42:33 a12fdb No.575070

>>575017

Japan, stop being jelly of our forests! You failed in WW2 and you'll fail now. Don't make me wake Smokey 4, he's way edgier than his predecessors.

Strelok 04/24/18 (Tue) 09:12:39 de23cd No.575126

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>>575004

>If they've got the manpower to chase down transhitting unlicensed HAMs, they have the capacity to do this as well.

Except they don't. There is a tiny handful of apathetic field agents that do foxhunting for the whole country. unlicensed hams transhit for years sometimes. It's usually other HAMs that get pissed, do the foxhunting themselves, then turn it over to the FCC and hope they actually do something.

Strelok 04/24/18 (Tue) 09:18:01 c7eb8f No.575127

>>575017

fuck that, just put on your mask and pick up a pointed stick find the station

no need to set the forest down for this weaksauce