Criminal Repeaters...

[WB4LCN]

EXCERPT:
"The radio signal travels deep into the arid countryside, hours by foot from the nearest road. There, the 8-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) dark-green branches of the rockrose bush conceal a radio tower painted to match. A cable buried in the dirt draws power from a solar panel. A signal-boosting repeater relays the message along a network of powerful antennas and other repeaters that stretch hundreds of miles (kilometers) across Mexico, a shadow communications system allowing the cartel to coordinate drug deliveries, kidnapping, extortion and other crimes with the immediacy and precision of a modern military or law-enforcement agency."

This is an excerpt from an article I read today on Yahoo News. Shocking.

http://news.yahoo.com/mexicos-cartels-build-own-national-radio-system-200251816.html

[WB4LCN]

Looks like eHam also latched onto this story. Good.

http://www.eham.net/articles/27444

[WB4LCN]

At first I was a little cautious about posting this info here. Who knows who is viewing it? Could they come after me?? What the heck? I needed to bring the attention of the Ham world to it. I'm glad that eHam followed suit and recognized the story as valid also.

I see on the eHam news item that a person commented that they saw some fishy handheld purchases at their local candy store. I would encourage others to be vigilant and keep their eyes open for this - or maybe they remember some incident that only makes sense in the context of this story. Contact you local FBI - or at least some local law enforcement officer that you know and trust. It's getting to where you don't know who to turn to.

dave

[K1DA]

I'm sure if WE can read about it, "others" are recording every transmission.