• Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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    8 days ago

    @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.

    • Erich M.@chaos.social
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      8 days ago

      @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/

      • Erich M.@chaos.social
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        8 days ago

        @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

          • Erich M.@chaos.social
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            7 days ago

            @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/