How hard would it be to find W's reciever frequency?

[Gore1FL]

Imagine the fun the debate would be if someone could replace (or jam) his reception.

As the Bush people said there was no reciever and earpiece, they could certainly have no complaints.

[underseasurveyor]

1. That would be fun to watch

How bout a LOUD high pitch squeal so he has to rip it out of his ear in front of an audience and TV cameras :evilgrin:

[Jim Sagle]

4. That would NOT be a good thing. It could break his eardrums.

:D

[underseasurveyor]

7. Oh yea I forgot. That wouldn't be nice now 'wood' it

:nopity:

:evilgrin:

[Jim Sagle]

8. I'm glad you are showing proper remorse.

:toast:

[TankLV]

12. Exactly HOW would this be a bad thing?

ANd he doesn't listen anyhow, so how would it affect him at all?

Just why should I waste my beautiful mind on something that might damage some part of this piece of excrement again?

[Jim Sagle]

14. It wouldn't be a good thing to be caught advocating on this forum.

Wouldn't be prudent.

Actually I wouldn't give the resident the wax out of my left ear.

[disgruntled_goat]

2. radio scanner?

youd have to do some research to narrow the search frequencies - manually scanning every frequency takes a long time..

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Impossible, if he doesn't have a receiver

I'm not certain that he has one.

Then again, I never attribute to malice that which can be explained by mere stupidity.

--bkl
But I can be convinced

[bill grasso]

5. jammed? ... or failed??

judging by his incoherent blatherings, Bush's receiver either failed or was jammed.. Without knowledge of the type unit employed, jamming would be a pretty hit and miss proposition. I think it's possible that some of the broadcasting equipment may have inadvertantly interfered..

[DustMolecule]

6. Definitely worth the look.....

1000 + young men (and counting) - who have died in *'s misadventure are hoping you can help to end this madness by finding such a link.

[thatgemguy]

9. Difficult Task

What you're asking is a fairly complex question. There are commercially available devices that would accomplish finding and demodulating an FM signal.

One that comes to mind is made by Optoelectronics, the "X - Sweeper". <http://www.optoelectronics.com/xsweeper.htm>

A task such as this would not be easy, nor inexpensive to do.

With all the radio spectrum that will be in use surrounding the event, (event staff, security, news crews, wireless microphones, etc.) pinpointing one specific frequency would still be a chore. With all of the high tech toys our military and intelligence services have at their disposal and available to the POTUS it may well be impossible. (Think - the number of available frequencies, digital encryption, spread spectrum technology, even infrared light transmissions)

While I do think receiving any transmissions would be difficult, but may be possible, I wouldn't even try to transmit and jam them.

Consider that the authorities will be monitoring the radio spectrum as well, and may be able to pinpoint you and your location. By actively and deliberatly interfering with any legal or licensed transmission you would be setting yourself up for a major league hassle with the law.

[SpiralHawk]

10. What's the frequency, Kenneth?

We need to get Dan Rather on this story...


"I think the American people--I hope the American--I don't think, let me--I hope the American people trust me."
- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2002

[sendero]

11. First...

... I'm about 60% sure that Bush* is "wired". That said, there are technologies other than RF that may be used to do so.

RF I know, the other technologies I'm less familiar with.

For RF, scanning to find the "frequency" is unlikely to work. Even modern cordless phones use spread-spectrum technology, which means that the signal isn't on a single frequency but is hopping between a set of frequencies at a very rapid rate. With a standard receiver, all you would hear is noise.

Also, as another has mentioned, there will be a boatload of RF there anyway.

The only effective countermeasure I can think of would involve transmitting a "trash" broadband signal, overmodulating it in AM and FM with noise, and sweeping it all over the place. It would need to be a high power signal, at least 10-20 watts output, depending on how close to the "bug" the transmitter can get. Sort of a brute force jam. It would effectively jam all RF devices in the vicinity. It would be highly illegal.

OTOH, trying to actually intercept (listen) to the signal and make a recording would be legal as far as I know. And the tapes would be very interesting, very interesting indeed :)

[JPace]

13. If furious george is using a receiver....

just think how nervous he and Rove are feeling
now that everyone is suspicious. Do they continue
with the deception or if they do not can he go
it alone? If he's wired on Wednesday I think he
will be so nervous about being caught that it
will show big time in his emotions.