From MAILER-DAEMON Sun Apr 28 19:24:26 1996 Received: by pig.die.com (5.65/1.35) id AA01144; Sun, 28 Apr 96 19:24:26 -0400 Date: Sun, 28 Apr 96 19:24:26 -0400 From: MAILER-DAEMON (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Message-Id: <9604282324.AA01144@pig.die.com> To: die Status: RO
----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 cypherpunks.com... User unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by pig.die.com (5.65/1.35) id AA01142; Sun, 28 Apr 96 19:24:26 -0400 Message-Id: <9604282324.AA01142@pig.die.com> Subject: Re: Cell Kill 2 To: asgaard@sos.sll.se (Asgaard) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 19:24:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dave Emery" <die@pig.die.com> Cc: cypherpunks.com Reply-To: die@die.com In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960428210130.10419A-100000@cor.sos.sll.se> from "Asgaard" at Apr 28, 96 11:44:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1237 Asgaard writes >
enough for this application of force. It makes more sense if he was using a direct (mobile) phone-satellite device, assuming such devices are emitting a stronger signal that could easily be targeted by AWAC type technology, or even satellites (that they are communicating with in the first place).
Much the most likely satellite phone is the widely used INMARSAT A or C types which radiate continuous narrow band (nbfm or QPSK) uplinks in L band (around 1636 mhz) at considerable power (multiple tens of watts) via antennas with large sidelobes (the fact that the antennas are small and portable on most satellite terminals mean that they radiate lots of energy in various directions other than the satellite because of the limitations of the physical optics involved at such a long wavelength). This would be a sitting duck for an anti-radiation missle. The US has had such missle's since the Vietnam era for knocking out radar sites, one can presume the USSR developed such weapons as well. Why the Russians did not use this technology earlier remains puzzling ... and why Dudeyev used a satellite phone which made him a sitting duck is even less clear. Dave Emery die@die.com