FYI: I have a 7/8 70cm antenna, homebuilt into a rubber duck sleeve. It's an inch and a half long.

the fuck are you crapping on about? A helical whip is the stated length wrapped around an air core and sleeved in PU or rubber. HENCE THE FUCKING NAME.

and there's really no such thing as a retro warrant because the application has to be in before any surveillance can take place, and sneak-peak is right out (Fourth Amendment, dash it all!)

No, the NSA warrantless wiretapping program in the United States is not legal under the patriot act, because the act is still in violation of the constitution. Same goes for the 2008 FISA amendments as they're spawned from section 213.

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spank you happy helpy.

on 28 U.S. Code 534(a)(1): the only two Authorities for such action are judicial administration and national defense. Unless the United States Government has declared war on its own citizens (it hasn't as far as the White House still being vertical evidences), then neither Authority can be invoked since the activity is also warrantless and proactive.

On 47 CFR 2.701(b), and 47 CFR 15.9: this requires LAWFUL AUTHORITY (ie a WARRANT from a JUDGE), which requires JUST CAUSE.

Stingray is in direct violation of 47 CFR 15.15(c) *by design*, therefore its use would be illegal even if all other conditions were met. For "authorised users of the radio frequency spectrum", read: "ANYBODY WHO USES A CELLPHONE!"

See, I *can* read.

they appear to use a base-loaded helical whip on the pocket-portable version, which is called "Gossamer". The whole thing's about the size of a GP200 and the antenna's about the size of a 5/8 HAM rubberduck. In fact, it might well be a HAM rubberduck - at 450MHz it'd be equivalent to 23/8 wavelength (which would work, actually - my VX-5 is usually equipped with a 2m antenna which does a wonderful job at 70cm).

I have one. It's called a Yaesu VX-5 pocket personal transceiver. It only covers the analogue (voice) channels below 1GHz (covers 450 and 800MHz gear) (doesn't go higher than 1GHz) but if there's a jamming signal being emitted at those frequencies that thing'll pick it up.

(I wouldn't bother to be using it at anything other than a major public gathering, since that's the most likely place LE would use blanket jammers - not that they''re likely to in the UK since they use TETRA which piggybacks any available cell system. Targetted DOSing is so channel-specific, my radio is simply inadequate for the task).

even if were a product available to the public it couldn't be because it is *designed* to interfere with radio communications at a fundamental and highly targetable level.

which ones allow them to proactively interfere with radio frequency communications?

this is going to go the same way as the Bristol Tidal Barrage. That thing was a month away from construction starting, that was just a bunch of anchored floats. Know what stopped it?

Some fucking retard claiming that it would kill the surf!

how about the right to privacy in communication and freedom from unlawful* interference in personal, family and associative affairs as guaranteed by not only the US Constitution but also the UN Declaration of Human Rights?

*for a metric, read: "any activity which does not meet standards of the Statute Law, or moral or societal standards of behaviour"

Also consider the fact that the Constitution ofthe United States specifically limits the function of Government to that which is SPECIFICALLY ALLOWED by Law; any activity which is NOT specifically legislated for is in fact ILLEGAL for Government to carry out. As always, the Constitution wins out absent an Amendment, ergo warrantless wiretapping or active unlawful interference in communications is unconstitutional hence ILLEGAL.

One of the documented functions of StingRay is as a local cell jammer (more specifically, a DOSbox). This it can do by several methods: by intercepting cellphone signals by imitating a tower and redirecting those signals to dev/null; by flooding an area with local RF; by causing any or all phones in a given area around it or around a target phone to flood RF... Stingray is so small it can be carried in a pocket.

(I've seen one, it's about the size of a Motorola GP200 and called "Gossamer", made by the same corporation that makes Stingray II (the current rackmount system)).

*prefer. I think the battery in my keyboard's going...

you'd split her in half, you fool. I refer to hold something I can *see*.

I don't think the energy fraction for even 100% demand satisfaction can be measured. It'll be below the noise floor for even a quantum processor.