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Tom Root, WB8UUJ Flushing, MI USA _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curt Phillips W4CP Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 1:39 PM To: RARSlist RARSlist; Tarheel Scanner Subject: [Swlfest] US Radio Jamming in Iraq to disrupt IEDs Below is an excerpt from an article in the Washington Post on US forces using radio jamming to disrupt the detonation of IEDs against our troops. The link takes you to the complete article. It was very interesting to me, both as a radio hobbyist and just as general interest read on the problems and solutions in Iraq. 73, Curt Curt Phillips, CEM, CMVP W4CP ex-KD4YU; WB4LHI ARRL Life; QCWA; SKCC; NASWA Tar Heel Scanner/SWL Group Monitoring DC to Daylight Raleigh, NC w4cp<at>arrl.net -- The only thing that can defeat the US military is US politicians. 'If you don't go after the network, you're never going to stop these guys. Never.' By <http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/rick+atkinson/> Rick Atkinson Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, October 3, 2007; Page A01 BAGHDAD -- In the early spring of 2006, perhaps the most important document in <http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Baghdad?tid=informline> Baghdad was known as the MOASS -- the Mother of All Spreadsheets-- a vast compilation of radio frequencies that insurgents used to trigger roadside bombs. In some areas of <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/iraq.html?nav=el> Iraq, 70 percent of all improvised explosive devices were radio-controlled, and they caused more than half of all American combat deaths. An overworked Army intelligence officer tracked the frequencies, and an equally overworked Navy electrical engineer matched them against 14 varieties of electronic jammer used by coalition forces. [SNIP] By the end of 2006, the Department of Defense had spent more than $1 billion during the year just on jammers. Fielding them "proved the largest technological challenge for DOD in the war, on a scale last experienced in World War II," according to Col. William G. Adamson, a former staff officer for the Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), the Pentagon office coordinating the campaign. The U.S. strategy was defined in six words: "Put them back on the wire." By neutralizing radio-controlled bombs, the jammers would force insurgent bombmakers to use more rudimentary triggers, such as command wire. Those triggers would be simpler to detect, in theory, and would bring the triggermen closer to their bombs, where U.S. troops could capture or kill them. That strategy has succeeded. In the subsequent 18 months, radio-controlled bombs would shrink to 10 percent of all IEDs in Iraq. FULL STORY: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100202 366.html?referrer=emailarticle _____ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48249/*http:/search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_m ail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz> for grads at Yahoo! Search.
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