That is very interesting.... but I don’t know much about ham radio — would she really need to get a license if she was going to do something secretive, especially as a CIA person? I suppose it might give her some protection legally but could also draw attention, as it has if someone now has noticed the FCC license she got. Wonder who thought to look for that?? It didn’t occur to me.....
Ham radio operators would out you for broadcasting without valid call sign. They have highly effective scanners. They would hear you. The govt has really really effective scanners. They would hear you too just harder to trace back unless you where using your call sign. The ham license seems like a problem for the criminal comm angle.
That is very interesting.... but I don’t know much about ham radio — would she really need to get a license if she was going to do something secretive, especially as a CIA person? I suppose it might give her some protection legally but could also draw attention, as it has if someone now has noticed the FCC license she got. Wonder who thought to look for that?? It didn’t occur to me.....
The Ham license is definitely odd. Why get one now? It’s not like she likely has a background of tinkering with radios or building electronics.
It would provide for essentially untraceable transmission of covert info as the broadcast wouldn’t be to anyone specific. One could prearrange for broadcasting a coded message at a certain time of day. The code itself could be hidden in a seemingly innocuous phrase instead of some cryptic sounding number string.