Posted on 12/12/2017 1:27:20 AM PST by a little elbow grease
Sometimes a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ is not just a theory…
Department of Justice Assoc. Deputy Attorney General Bruce G Ohr was demoted because he had working relationships with dossier author Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS; and -more importantly or perhaps ‘conveniently’- according to James Rosen, Bruce Ohr did not reveal his October 2016 contacts with MI6 agent Steele or Glenn Simpson (Fusion-GPS) to DOJ leadership.
However, the ongoing Dossier story gets far more intriguing as it is now discovered that Bruce G Ohr’s wife, Nellie H. Ohr, actually worked for Fusion GPS and likely helped guide/script the Russian Dossier. (Link) Contacted by Fox News, investigators for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) confirmed that Nellie H. Ohr, wife of the demoted official, Bruce G. Ohr, worked for the opposition research firm last year. The precise nature of Mrs. Ohr’s duties – including whether she worked on the dossier – remains unclear but a review of her published works available online reveals Mrs. Ohr has written extensively on Russia-related subjects. HPSCI staff confirmed to Fox News that she was paid by Fusion GPS through the summer and fall of 2016.
But wait, it gets even better.
Oct. 16 2006 Robert Mueller’s FBI Thugs raided the home of Rep. Curt Weldon’s daughter who had a Lobbing Firm that worked with the “Russian Energy Corp.” Three weeks later Joe Sestak won the election over Curt Weldon. The FBI never pressed any charges because their raid had succeeded its goal. Curt Weldon was holding hearings on Able Danger that the 911 Cover-up Commission was trying to hide. Looks like the Mueller-Comey Russian plot has been used before.
One time pad cypher.
As an Amateur Radio guy, I can answer this question.
First, most "new hams" are in their late 40's through mid 60's. It's considered an "old man's" hobby however it does have a small and growing number of women in the same age group.
Second, Amateur Radio communications are unencrypted so I'm unsure what sort of communications Nellie Ohr and Christopher Steele would have over the air. Encrypted communications in Amateur Radio are prohibited (with the exception of DMR in the 2m/440mhz portion of the amateur radio spectrum, which are LOCAL communications.)
Now, if Nellie Ohr and Christopher Steele were going to use encrypted comms in the Amateur Radio band, doing that from a fixed location would be rather stupid. While triangulating longwave comms to a specific location can be difficult and time consuming, it's not impossible by any stretch.
So I fail to see what the importance of the ham radio license application is, other than she's genuinely interested in it, or to be a distraction?
There’s no such thing as private communications in amateur radio.
Logs are not required, but many hams do keep logs. Newer digital systems and software-defined radios sometimes keep these logs automatically.
However, she has a Technician’s License, which is the entry-level ticket and she is restricted to a few bands. Most local communications takes place on the VHF band (usually 144 MHz-148 MHz) and the UHF 420-450 MHz). There is a lesser used band at 222 MHz - 225 MHz that she could use, but the radios that operate in this band are more rare.
These VHF and UHF bands do not propagate much over the horizon, so they work either radio-to-radio over a few miles separation or they talk to a repeater (like a cell tower) that is usually 1000’ in the air co-located on a commercial tower.
Normal chit-chat (”Rag-chewing”) on VHF/UHF is rarely logged because you are usually talking with known club members who own and maintain the repeater. Several times a year, there are contests where operations compete to make as many connections as possible in a fixed period of time, and logging is necessary, but newbies rarely participate in these contests.
A newer generation of digital radios is emerging and are inexpensive. Some of them automatically broadcast your callsign and it appears on the receiver’s radio display.
BTW, her look-ups are now at 130, up from 50 this morning.
The FCC may have a recording of her, but that would be a guess.
If she and her hubby wanted to go radio-to-radio from their cars, they could buy a simple 25-40 watt rig for under $300 each and use a roof-mounted magnetic base antenna about 24” tall.
There are more advanced communication schemes that I have skipped over (Motorola DMR, ICOM D-Star, Yaesu Fusion, etc.), but they take a lot of knowledge or assistance to set up properly.
The morse code stuff and the shortwave radios that communicate around the world are not really available until a Technician licensee upgrades their license to “General Class”, which does require knowledge of electronic circuits, antenna theory and other aspects of radio propagation and the FCC rules.
To ballpark the “big” or “small” size of the hobby, I have spent about $2000 on equipment and can cover almost every band with my General Class license. If I went nuts and bought the best equipment available, I would have a hard time spending more than $20,000.
Although Art Bell, a ham operator of Coast-to-Coast AM fame, has an antenna farm that rivals the NSA...
https://www.smeter.net/w6obb/antenna-farm.php
Hope this helps...
I passed both my Technician and General Class license tests with under 6 hours of study time.
It's not difficult.
It would be incredibly stupid to do it. First, encrypted signals are prohibited and second, it's not impossible to triangulate where the source of the transmissions are coming from.
Hmmm........ but she’s an old woman
Define "old." 60? hell, I'm pushing near that now! I can still take both tests and pass and I haven't picked up a book in 10 years.
“One way to ensure secure communications with parties external to the U.S. would be the use of HAM radio operations”
The problem with this theory is that she applied for a Technician class license where the only “world wide” frequency band for that class of license is 10 meters using voice modulation. The 10 Meter band currently has poor propagation due to the present solar cycle. Lower world wide HF frequencies are available for Technicians but limited to Morse code.
bttt
The stink rises.
great graphic, thx!
Who will be next??
The plot sickens....
No-code Tech class HAM license lets one transmit & receive on 10 meters (28MHz) and higher:
http://www.hevener.org/index.php/amateur-radio/privileges/technician/
General class allows transmission & reception on tech bands plus lower than 28MHz, but the test is tougher & IIRC does have a code requirement (5 words a minute).
http://www.hevener.org/index.php/amateur-radio/privileges/general/
If someone has a HAM license, their name & call sign would be listed
http://www.arrl.org/advanced-call-sign-search
And here she is ! Tech license
http://www.arrl.org/advanced-call-sign-search
Do we have a gallows tall enough? Mr. Guillotine is more efficient
No code requirement anymore for any license.
bump
From the FCC Universal Licensing System database:
A Technician Class license? Unless she has a really good fist (a/k/a the ability to send Morse code clearly at high speeds), she's not doing any long distance communications...at least until the sunspot cycle heats up again.
10 meters, VHF, UHF, and SHF communications only. (See here for the frequencies she's authorized to use).
The local FCC monitoring station (near Columbia, MD)
It's just a Technician Class license. There's not very much theory required for that class of license.
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