Posted on 08/15/2015 4:52:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The federal government has a plan to kill all cell-phone service in certain areas when officials decide it’s necessary.
But you aren’t allowed to see the plan.
And the fact that you cannot learn what might justify its use or who has the authority to push the kill button is the focus of a new case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Pulling the plug on local cellular service already has been done. In 2011, officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in San Francisco cut off service inside four transit stations for three hours after a BART security officer shot and killed a homeless man and protests erupted in reaction.
The shutdown order was made when a protest organizer sought to coordinate activists via cell phone.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/feds-refuse-to-reveal-cellular-kill-switch-plan/#C8BEH7hAxghyLWTQ.99
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Gesh.....Hogans Heroes will detail all
The only way to stop them would be to shut down the repeaters — and remove equipment from the guys with the big antennas.
Btw the actual purpose of going remote is to put a transmitting antenna up on hill tops, mountains etc which dramatically improves signal efficiency. It was never intended to be covert from government spooks.
Btw, few even worry about the FCC/feds in that world. They’ve created enough chaos and carnage elsewhere to keep them busy for years.
I read a book called Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles and in it the government is able to bomb the location where a radio transmission originates.
That’s the extent of my knowledge. Thanks for enlightening me.
You can broadcast all over country with 5 bucks worth of wire thrown up in a tree. You can’t even see these things unless your really close. Some are flagpoles, in attics etc. And repeaters can easily be mobile.
But the bottom line is if they really wanted to shut down the entire spectrum, they could.
So there ya have it.
But how then would they notify the citizens to turn in their weapons during such a time?
It might slow down the non-techies but not all. If the fed’s kill cellphone use, the whole US gets shut down including the feds. There are more devices that use cell service than just phones.
And some basic trigonometry.
Still have walkie talkies that use CB channels and others. Short distances compared to Cell, and not personal, but still effective.
Guess you never heard of simplex for local operations. And it does not take a “big antenna” or an expensive one to make contacts across the country or around the world. But it does take “know how”.
...Well I have asked questions about radio a few times on FR and old radioheads immediately talk about licensing...
In SHTF situations, radio licensing will be as far removed from reality as getting HBO on your TV then.
Up on a logging road where my family lives we have to use CB to ensure we’re not driving up when a logging truck is coming down. We have to monitor CH19 all the time.
It sure appears that way.
You Sir win the Internet! I was just getting ready to s +ATHO+ Connection Lost
So there was a landline kill switch back in the day before call phones?
Guerrilla Radio is wide spread ...... in the CONUS and out.
time to get out the old CB again... got yer ears on there sparky???
I suspect this is an modern extension of that plan, and is not new at all.
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