At 12:36 PM 11/12/01 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Well, very low frequency could be used quite easily by almost
anyone, in
fact, the simplest, cheapest, most portable transmitters would use VLF and morse code. It's something any 10 year old kid could rig, and you get excellent propagation all over the world. Hams use VLF around campfires just for kicks. And if you used it in burst mode with a pre-recorded tape or digital input of an encrypted message sent in morse -- who knows?
It has long been a cypherpunkly gedanken performance art project to build and deploy solar-powered bursting longwave transmitters driven by quality noise sources in the american deserts (or elsewhere). Extra points if you align them towards interesting landmarks. Survival Research Labs will help us only if the Noise Fireflies attract bombing runs. Which they might. -------- 'What interests me is that it recorded 18 hours of static..' -_Contact_