Thanks.
I’ve been puzzled about the interests some have that Nellie Ohr recently got a no-code tech Ham license. A lot of people are confused about what any kind of radio actually is, because few people connect a radio with an antenna and understand the most basic principles.
Don’t know whether Nellie used it via a web portal to communicate with Steel in England or if it was used locally, point to point simplex. Don’t yet see the utility of it.
I think it could very well have been either a web portal or even a worldwide network just using HF. Maybe they thought it was “under the radar” so to speak, and military actually picked up on it. Read another post that some within military have been monitoring Deep State since beginning of Obama administration. All just speculation on my part.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_frequency
When all factors are at their optimum, worldwide communication is possible on HF. At many other times it is possible to make contact across and between continents or oceans. At worst, when a band is “dead”, no communication beyond the limited groundwave paths is possible no matter what powers, antennas or other technologies are brought to bear. When a transcontinental or worldwide path is open on a particular frequency, digital, SSB and Morse code communication is possible using surprisingly low transmission powers, often of the order of milliwatts, provided suitable antennas are in use at both ends and that there is little or no man-made or natural interference.[3] On such an open band, interference originating over a wide area affects many potential users. These issues are significant to military, safety[4] and amateur radio users of the HF bands.
In the case of the Cuban spy Montes her handlers used shortwave to tell her which dead drops to use, as I recall.
You might find this interesting:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/06/us/declassified-ana-montes-american-spy-profile/index.html