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[CharlesHarris]

(31 January 2021, 23:20)Mick Wrote: I know zilch about radios, but is there any danger that bad guys could home in on our transmissions or is that just hollywood baloney??

Not Hollywood baloney. Quickly and easily done. Computerized multiple site direction finding used to locate your mobile phone can do the same thing with a mobile radio. In a major city like Washington, DC, New York or London TPTB can have a fix on you in seconds.

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/...ly2019.pdf

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a128039.pdf

Similarly sound detection equipment called "Shot Spotter" can distinguish the specific characteristics of a firearm discharge from a firecracker and triangulate from multiple cell phone towers at once and automate the dispatch of the nearest armed police unit.

https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/De...-Tech.html