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“CARTWHEEL” Tower, Fort Reno, Washington, DC, 2020.
All the pixels, on a need-to-know basis, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49576247768/
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“CARTWHEEL” Tower, Fort Reno, Washington, DC, 2020.
All the pixels, on a need-to-know basis, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49576247768/
#photography
@mattblaze@federate.social
If I remember correctly you already posted one of the other towers of this microwave network. Wasn`t that the one featuring these large horn antennas below and 4G/5G dishes on top?
@harkank@chaos.social That was a different network. The horns and microwave dishes on that tower were disused, and the tower repurposed as a cell site.
@mattblaze@federate.social
Ah ok, different network., rremember. As you mentioned thíngs going unnoticed in plain sight. Everybody passing by the Russian embassy to the UN in Vienna could see 4 large dishes on top. Nobody cared what they might be doing there for years .
Late in 2022 we shot the roof with zooms & sent a drone up. Voilà: a full blown #SIGiNT station with a dozen dishes. And the NSA watching them from their “stateroom” hut above the nearby US embassy to the UN.
https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3029201/
@mattblaze
And meanwhile we have sort of re-engineered three of these four-meter dishes and identified their targets. All three are C-band dishes and there are not that many C-band sats around any more in the segment from Greenwich to 15°.
Posted a thread on this lately, always fediverse first, and I’m currently doing a longread for a magazine here.
tl;dr: They are collecting signals intelligence mainly for their African putsch politics
Russki #SIGINT 2.0
https://chaos.social/deck/@harkank/113115103774149785
@harkank Extremely interesting.
Are these receive-only (have you detected any signals coming out of them)?
@mattblaze@federate.social
None of these 3 large dishes is active. Same with dish 4 in the back, this one is for the Ku band. Dish 1,2 and 4 are equipped with skew angle gear & motors to squint into downlinks.
C-Band modules - LNCs, filters & c - are all from Nortel Canada. The Ku band modules are from Swedish Microwave.
Vienna is by far the largest and one of the few remaining #SIGINT stations in EU on Russki embassies.
Tech staffers were all kicked out except here
https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3029962/