What? A pirate radio station in the Carribean is jamming broadcasts in New Orleans? I find that hard to believe. -TD

From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> To: cypherpunks@jfet.org Subject: [dave@farber.net: [IP] Radio jamming in New Orleans during rescue operations] Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:39:32 +0200

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From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 08:25:43 -0400 To: Ip Ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Subject: [IP] Radio jamming in New Orleans during rescue operations X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Reply-To: dave@farber.net

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From: "Glenn S. Tenney CISSP CISM" <gt_IP050716@think.org> Date: September 8, 2005 3:24:45 PM EDT To: dave@farber.net Subject: Radio jamming in New Orleans during rescue operations

I saw this... For IP if you like:

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

September 2, 2005 -- Who is jamming communications in New Orleans? Ham radio operators are reporting that communications in and around New Orleans are being jammed. In addition, perplexed ham radio operators who were enlisted by the Federal government in 911 are not being used for hurricane Katrina Federal relief efforts. There is some misinformation circulating on the web that the jamming is the result of solar flares. Ham radio operators report that the flares are not the source of the communications jamming. If anyone at the National Security Agency is aware of the source of the jamming, from direction finding or satellite intelligence, please discretely contact me at waynemadsendc@hotmail.com (from a private or temporary email account). In this case, the Bush administration cannot hide behind national security and it is the duty of every patriotic American to report such criminal activity to the press. Even though the information on the jamming may be considered classified -- it is in the public interest to disclose it. Also, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is reporting that no aircraft over New Orleans have been fired on over New Orleans or anywhere else in the area. Are the reports of shots being fired at aircraft an attempt by the Bush administration to purposely delay the arrival of relief to the city's homeless and dying poor? The neocons have turned New Orleans into Baghdad on the Mississipppi

New Orleans: Who is jamming communications and why?

UPDATE: We can now report that the jamming of New Orleans' communications is emanating from a pirate radio station in the Caribbean. The noise is continuous and it is jamming frequencies, including emergency high frequency (HF) radios, in the New Orleans area. The radio frequency jammers were heard last night, stopped for a while, and are active again today. The Pentagon must locate the positions of these transmitters and order the Air Force to bomb them immediately.

However, we now have a new unconfirmed report that the culprit may be the Pentagon itself. The emitter is an IF (Intermediate Frequency) jammer that is operating south southwest of New Orleans on board a U.S. Navy ship, according to an anonymous source. The jamming is cross-spectrum and interfering with superheterodyne receiver components, including the emergency radios being used in New Orleans relief efforts. The jammed frequencies are:

72.0MHZ (high end of Channel 4 WWL TV New Orleans) 45.0MHZ (fixed mobile) 10.245MHZ (fixed mobile) 10.240 Mhz (fixed mobile) 11.340 Mhz (aeronautical mobile) 233 MHZ (fixed mobile) 455 IF (jammer)

A former DoD source says the U.S. Army uses a portable jammer, known as WORLOCK, in Iraq and this jammer may be similar to the one that is jamming the emergency frequencies.

UPDATE Sep. 3 -- A Vancouver, British Columbia Urban Search & Rescue Team deployed to New Orleans reported that their satellite phones were not working and they had to obtain other satellite phones to keep in touch with their headquarters and other emergency agencies in British Columbia.

There is a report on a ham radio web site that jamming is adversely affecting the New Orleans emergency net on 14.265 Mhz.

If a U.S. Navy ship is, in fact, jamming New Orleans communications, the crew must immediately shut down the jammer and take action against the Commanding Officer.

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We have just learned from a journalist in Mobile that yesterday, Sprint blocked all cell phone calls from the Gulf Coast region to points north and west. Calls were permitted between Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida but no calls could be made to Washington, New York, or Los Angeles

September 5, 2005 ... Meanwhile, the communications jamming in the New Orleans area continues. It is now being reported by truck drivers on Interstate-10 as affecting the Citizens' Band (CB) frequencies.

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