Thread by @BusterUSMC

1. Nellie Ham Radio
There is a lot of buzz abt Nellie Ohr’s Ham radio license & her uses for it.

May 23rd, 2016, just as the dossier project was kicking into gear, (Steele was only hired in June), Nellie Ohr, at ripe old age of give-or-take 55, got a Technician radio license.

2. There's a bunch of curious things abt Ohr getting an amateur radio license so late in her career.

~Nellie Ohr's professional profile does not show her to be the techie type

3. ~Nellie Ohr doesn’t possess any hacker, computer, or engineering skills
(which is what typically motivates ppl to get an Amateur Radio license)

4. ~Nellie Ohr doesn’t belong to any ARRL radio club in the Fairfax area

5. ~The radio clubs in Nellie Ohr's registration area have NO records of administering the exam (Ham Radio exams are typically administered by local ARRL club).

6. ~Nellie Ohr's call sign, KM4UDZ, shows NO public activity which is odd, bc new Hams are typically very chatty & can’t stay off the air when they first get their license.

7. As can be seen in Image 35, her technician rating is the lowest class of amateur radio license and has limited privileges with regard to the available frequencies and transmitter power output.

8. So 4all of the 'conspiracy theorists' out there that belv that Nellie Ohr was engaged in OSS style night transmissions from a secret compartment in a barn to her controller in Moscow: ....she wasn’t.
~The radio class limits only give her a line of sight range of 5-10 miles

9. In 'repeater mode', she cld push the range to 20-200 miles.
If you don’t think that a 10-mile range is sufficient, think again.
Its likely that Ohr’s rationale for using a Ham radio was a substitution for a cell & landline phns in order to communicate w/person(s) nearby.

10. As you can see from the map below, even with a 7.5 mile radius Nellie Ohr was well within the range of the ENTIRE downtown Washington D.C. area.

11. We know Nellie was THE dossier’s liaison 2agencies
It’s not unlikely sm1 versed in SIGINT tld her she had 2use a Hamradio bc if 'the project' wnt south
1st line of invstigtn wld b
subpoena all cell&phn rcrds/analyze/thn compare2completely re-construct her operational network.

12. We know Nellie’s husband, Bruce Ohr, was the Department of Justice’s contact for Steele & Fusion GPS and in fact held mtgs w/both abt the dossier.

13. We also know that Bruce Ohr HEADED a task force code named 'Cassandra' & 'Operation Fast & Furious' that among other things utilized cell phn tracking technology to identify money laundering, drugs, and weapon smuggling.

14. So, it makes sense that Bruce Ohr was EXTREMELY aware of the need for electronic surveillance 'countermeasures'

But what abt tracing his wife Nellie Ohr's Ham call sign during transmission, wouldn’t that eliminate her radio anonymity?

15. In theory, yes, but in practice, it can be circumvented.
This problem cld'v bn solved with devices like the Harris XG-75P/100P. Encrypted radio transmissions can be used to obscure the identity of the sender/receiver of the message.

16. For example, un-encrypted HSMM uses a ping packet containing the station call sign to identify the station, similar to how a 2-meter repeater periodically announces its call sign.

17. But if HSMM is operated using WEP encryption (avl as a plug-in) those packets wld b obscured &the call sign of station licensee cld NOT b recvd by anyone without the keys.

So, in addition to the encrypted voice ..the identity of the sender call signs wld also be hidden.
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