Not going to say it.
Wouldn't be prudent.
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Posted on 01/15/2008 3:49:55 PM PST by Androcles
A heckling radio ham known as the Filipino Monkey, who has spent years pestering ships in the Persian Gulf, is being blamed today for sparking a major diplomatic row after American warships almost attacked Iranian patrol boats.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
“Quack Quack”
Dropping large objects into the water near American warships is aggressive behavior. It really doesn't matter what you say or don't say.
The Iranians now know they can get within 300 yards of American Warships and drop mines in the water.
Ping. Filipino Monkey strikes again.
How interesting.
Did the Monkey also simulate the speed boat’s and the actions of the crew on board?
That would be a macaca moment, no?
No he wasn’t right. No one was planning to bomb Iran based on this incident.
No. He's a guy in the Persian Gulf that heckles the U.S. Navy on the VHF Bridge to Bridge all night long. He's rude, crude, and helarious. I spent many a night laughing at him to keep awake. He's called "Filipino Monkey" because that's one of the things he says over and over.
The next time the Iranians play chicken with the U.S. Navy and get their sorry butts blown to pieces, they can put it on the Filipino Monkey.
How did this guy know that Iranian boats were swarming American ships and throwing white boxes in the sea at the time? Besides, don’t we have radio directional capabilities to determine where it’s coming from?
Thanks for the clarification. Regards
“...soon you will explode!”
Haha....I heard this guy doing that stuff in the gulf in 91-92 and it caught on with sailors.....sailors started doing it aroiund the philipines to piss off their harbor pilots.
Was he driving the boats? If not the Iranians would be responsible for #1 not responding and #2 for getting their ships blown from the water.
Triangulation and smart bombs.
So, who drove the speedboats - weaving in and out of our ships at high speed?
I didn’t think Achmadenijihad was Filipino.
In the Iranian version, there is no hint of aggressive behaviour.
The Pentagon said it recorded the film and the sound separately and then edited them together to give a "better idea of what is happening"...."
The Pentagon should not have edited them together. It feeds the conspiracy nuts.
Everyone who is informed knows we’re going to have to take out Iran sooner or later. I think we should do it when we’re ready and have the best reason for attacking them. This might not have been it, but it’s coming.
He said, lets get the facts first, as I recall.
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Wouldn't be prudent.
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“Ham” indeed. Real licensed radio amateurs never do anything like this, right? Well, it could be the ghost of W2OY, but hectoring Persian Gulf radio traffic for twenty five years sounds a little much for the likes of that spectre or most rogue ops. I’m curious if there’s a Kenneth reading this mail that would know typical frequencies for this sort of communications. Wouldn’t all the Navy’s EW capabilities identify the Monkey’s source immediately, if not soon after the fact? And given the sensitivity of the region, wouldn’t all the electronic bells and whistles be turned on and tuned up? Too weird. On top of it all, the threats were delivered in a prank phone call voice, as if Eddy Haskell defected from the Highway Patrol to the Revolutionary Guard.
If he’s a well known character, our Navy guys would likely have recognized it was him, correct?
I am a licensed ham radio operator. There are several requirements to obtaining a ham license including an extensive exam in correct radio procedures and detailed electrical principles. The filipino monkey is probably not a real ham, but a moron with too much time on his hands.
Inquiring minds want to know more! What sort of things does he say?
Is it remotely possible he observed the incident in real-time to be able to get the blame for the commentary in question?
His voice would be on file, this should be very easy to verify.
He did say that. He also said, paraphrasing, “Goodness, we’ve got a bunch of guys ready to bomb Iran over this.”
I don’t remember anyone saying that. Not even close.
This monkey needs to be spanked.
Trunk Monkey!! Yeah!
Thanks!
It can be done scientifically, using forensic sonograms.
The forensic use of voiceprints was killed off in the US by trial lawyers—about 1975.
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Telescope?
Besides, don’t we have radio directional capabilities to determine where it’s coming from?
When's the last time you used a radio with directional capabilities? Radios don't work that way. I'm sure the Navy has RDF capabilities on many of its ships, but it would be a separate device which would have to be activated, and would take a little time to identify a direction.
Mr. Monkey needs a visit from some Navy Seals who can then make sure that monkey meat is spread all over the gulf
“Besides, don’t we have radio directional capabilities to determine where it’s coming from?”
Yeah. But it takes more than two short sentences to triangulate it.
Philippines to the Gulf on Marine VHF band?????
Not even if he had a tower the height of Everest.
Now there are many HF marine band frequencies so perhaps
one of those was used?
No at best he is a pissed off guy who got booted from Subic and could only find work in the land of no women.
I think there are better ways parre.
BTW... it is extremely likely that worldwide 24/7/365 recordings are made by satellite of a large chunk of the commonly used RF spectrum.
You see it is now easy to record a large frequency range as data and sift through it by computer looking for interesting data.
If the NSA does not do this then they are incompetent.
Send a random message on a freq above 30mhz from any point on earth and I’d bet that somewhere it would be recorded and decoded.
Even VERY weak ground based RF signals are easily picked up from space...for example those little half watt walkie-talkies (FRS) you can buy anywhere deliver a strong signal to the International Space Station.
They just did. Only difference, the large objects they dropped in the water apparently weren't mines.
Could this be a Tokyo Rose type situation?
Oh!!! Such a cute funny boy you are...
Darling? Hand me my aircraft carrier...
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Fine. We are both right.
Have you seen those amazing pictures from the Hubble telescope? Impressive civilian technology used to support scientific progress. Now that we know the technology exists, is there any reason to doubt that the military has made full use of it? Of course not. Our spy satellites are probably just equivalent to the Hubble but pointed groundward.
Now think about the GPS system with its near synchronous satellites. Do we use RDF, Radio Direction Finding, to pinpoint a receiver's position on Earth? No. The receiver compares synchronized signals from various satellites and computes position from the observed differences in arrival time at the receiver.
Now let's ask ourselves, "Would it be useful militarily to have a system whereby the military can pinpoint the location of radio stations on Earth? The obvious answer is "yes".
Now we ask ourselves, would the technology to do so be prohibitively expensive? For the U.S government? Heck, no!
So what does the system have to look like? It looks surprisingly like the GPS system. It may even use the same satellites.
Want to pinpoint the location of a transmitter operating at 200MHz? Program all the GPS satellites to monitor a narrow band around that frequency and record the transmissions with high fidelity. On command from the ground, download the high fidelity recording of the transmission from each satellite along with the exact time that the signal was received.
Then compare the recordings to identify identical transients in each recording and note the exact time that said transient was recorded at several satellites. The same algorithm used by a receiver to calculate its position using GPS will then enable the military to calculate the position of the radio transmitter.
In case this system hasn't been invented or patented, I hereby claim rights as its inventor with the intention to enrich myself consistent with its commercial value.
I wouldn’t get too alarmed about this.
The only reason it became a news item was because of the ‘additional’ voice, making remarks about “you will explode”, in English.
It was different from the voices of what the radio operator indicated was the operators of the cigarette boats.
Apparently, there have been times that ‘enemy’ ships have been so close to US ships while passing through the straits that they could play catch with a baseball between ships.
It just wasn’t newsworthy at the time.
These ships had no armaments (visible), no ID , and for all we know were the Iranian Special Guard’s cousins out screwing with the US Navy to impress their wives.
We were prepared to fire. They turned and fled. The boxes were a probably styrofoam coolers.
We didn’t fall for any of it. And we didn’t shoot any Iranian citizens without due cause.
We won.
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