Re: 2 Witness: 3 SUV escort large truck to Janet


Message posted by lone wolf on September 01, 2004 at 20:13:26 PST:

These guys are into so much RF that it is really hard to tell what they are doing at Groom Lake. TCSM is generally known as "bug detection." TEMPEST relates to how secure your electronic systems are from remote snooping. I'm pretty sure I mentioned once that I went to a swap meet and found a stack of Texas Instruments TEMPEST approved printers.

Perhaps relevant was what Jim Bob and I saw Wednesday from Coyote Summit. He ran into a white vehicle right on the summit with government plates and a large antenna. By the time I arrived, that truck was gone but we watched white trucks making runs up Tempiute Mountain from several directions. My guess is that these trucks are related to a new repeater site being built on the mountain for the NDOT trunk system. NDOT is Nevada Department of Transportation. However, the NHP (Nevada Highway Patrol) is also migrating to this trunk radio system. [It is a very amusing story how the NHP built a VHF trunk system of their own but forgot to license it. They paid $14 million in fines and sadly only one person lost their job via early retirement. Since the NHP lost their VHF assignments, they now have to join the NDOT UHF repeater system.] This NDOT system also applied for a repeater near the Cedar Pipeline Ranch, though I don't know if they will need both of them now if they get Tempiute.

It is quite possible that these white trucks were not related to the NDOT repeater system. It may be that this new repeater site will be a joint military & government site, much like Mount Irish.

The company could also be out their direction finding some transmitter. It is quite possible they are hunting the cow cam at this very moment.

For a good book on SIGINT (signal intelligence), check out Bamford's "Body of Secrets." It goes into the RB-47 spy plane, spy ships like the Pueblo and Liberty.


In Reply to: Re: 2 Witness: 3 SUV escort large truck to Janet posted by jose on September 01, 2004 at 19:16:28 PST:

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