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			| erehwon | 05-30-2004 07:11 PM |  
 
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		| Originally posted by jackson
 the kids who took over the burger king speaker, used tactics called wardriving i don't kno if any of you are familiar but the signal was sent to the box via a wifi signal and they picked up on the signal piggybacked it and were broadcasting what they wanted probably the same idea here it's not they had some sofisticated radio equipment or anything all you need is a laptop and a good wifi card i don't know if thats how the signal she is recieving in her headset is a radio frequency or a wifi frequency thats why i was asking cause  someone could literally sit in the stands with a laptop and a wifi card or in the parking lot ofr that matter
 
 |  Little crash course on civilian signals intelligence... :) 
 
Wardriving is for finding computer networks, hotspots, wireless access points, not drive-up resturant windows.
 
If you want to listen into radio frequencies that you have no idea what or where they are, you would make use a of a unit called a frequency recorder. Probably the best unit on the civilian marketplace is the Optoelectronics Scout.
http://www.optoelectronics.com/gifs/scouthand.gif 
Couple this with an AOR8200 series scanner, and with reaction tuning, you could listen into just about anything, and depending where you bought the scanner from, that could include the older cellular commications. (U.S. units are cellular blocked)
http://www.radiolabs.com/repair/rece...r/AR8200sm.jpg 
Figure spending about $1K USD for this package, between scanners, frequency recorders, antennas and software.
 
You used to see guys at coventions here in Chicago with older versions of this package listening into the calls from their competitors.
 
People who break into communications are almost as low as it gets, Its hard enough to compete in the Indy 500 without having the stress of some dork talking to you in the middle of the race, its even lower when they break into emergency communications. :feels-hot |