What do you get when you take a bunch of HAM radio amateurs and balloonists together to rig a high-altitude balloon with a high-definition camera and full radio controll?`
You get this. Watch it and enjoy.
Etikettarkiv: amateur radio
Brazilians hacks satellites for personal communications
Apparently resurceful people in Brazil have learned how they can use modified HAM radio equipment and satellite dishes to hijack military transponder satellites to use as a country-wide radio network.
It all started with a radio station that realized they could use the transponders to broadcast a radio signal and today many people from truckers to drug runners are using the satellites to broadcast warning information or just chatter about the latest football score.
Quite impressive! Using the US Navy’s Fleet Satellite Communications System like this is excellent stuff! :)