COMREG (Ireland) Spectrum Intelligence & Investigations

[Persona Non Grata]

https://www.comreg.ie/media/2022/11/ComReg-2294.pdf

An annual report from COMREGS's "Spectrum Intelligence & Investigations" Page 32 and onwards deals with pirate radio.

[jvok]

Lmao at those sovereign radio pics. That must be the most sketchy attempt at a rig I've ever seen

[g33ky]

Very interesting document, thanks for sharing - I found page 24's case study quite funny .

[Persona Non Grata]

Not as funny as the Airport which complained of interference and the source of the interference turned out to be...the airport in question.

Seemingly one of their radios had a faulty PTT switch.

Lmao at those sovereign radio pics. That must be the most sketchy attempt at a rig I've ever seen

Looking back at photos at old Irish MW/SW stations I was always amazed at what appeared to the standards (or lack thereof) of transmitter construction. Basically a load of high voltage components just laid out on the floor. It was only recently that somebody explained it to me. The idea was that in the event of a raid it could all be quickly broken down into a pile of unrecognisable junk (with the most valuable parts hidden) so that by the time the P&T (COMREG's predecessors) had hammered down the door/s there wasn't really much of a transmitter left to take.

[Persona Non Grata]

Not as funny as the Airport which complained of interference and the source of the interference turned out to be...the airport in question.

Seemingly one of their radios had a faulty PTT switch.

Lmao at those sovereign radio pics. That must be the most sketchy attempt at a rig I've ever seen

Looking back at photos at old Irish MW/SW stations I was always amazed at what appeared to the standards (or complete lack thereof) of transmitter construction. Basically a load of high voltage components just laid out on the floor. It was only recently that somebody explained it to me. The idea was that in the event of a raid it could all be quickly broken down into a pile of unrecognisable junk (with the most valuable parts hidden) so that by the time the P&T (COMREG's predecessors) had hammered down the door/s there wasn't really much of a transmitter left to take.

[jvok]

Looking back at photos at old Irish MW/SW stations I was always amazed at what appeared to the standards (or lack thereof) of transmitter construction. Basically a load of high voltage components just laid out on the floor. It was only recently that somebody explained it to me. The idea was that in the event of a raid it could all be quickly broken down into a pile of unrecognisable junk (with the most valuable parts hidden) so that by the time the P&T (COMREG's predecessors) had hammered down the door/s there wasn't really much of a transmitter left to take.

Obviously didn't work out for sovereign though