mapping in the sierras and places west

Major Variola (ret) mv at cdc.gov
Mon Nov 12 11:34:42 PST 2001


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.

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'What interests me is that it recorded 18 hours of static..' -_Contact_





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