Here are a few extra documents about the material in my Dark Side of the
Moon talk:
- The
announcement of Cobra Mist's closure. At the time, the government didn't
admit it was an OTH radar.
- A declassified paper about the
failure of Cobra Mist. Compiled from the
official US government release (odd pages only) and from material on
cufon.org.
- A note about the Cobra Mist Scientific Assessment
Committee, also from cufon.org. I worked with Brian Roberts in the
Esprit 1085 project.
- The FLR-9 manual.
- Operation Odyssey Dawn: the 2011 Lybia
no-fly zone.
- The book
Spycatcher by MI5's technical officer Peter Wright, Viking
Press, 1987. ISBN 978-0670820559.
-
Notes on Rafter by Richard J. Aldrich. He missed an important
point. The
UHF TV detector vans relied on the normal leakage of the local
oscillator signal through the receiver's input stages. Rafter
induced a stronger short burst by overloading the input stages.
- Markus Kuhn has a
good blog on Edward Snowden's DROPMIRE revelations. He suggests it is a
TEMPEST (page 89) attack.
- The GCHQ
"Doughnut".
If you are interested in government radio activities, you might also be
interested in.:
- The
Soviet OTH radar near Chernobyl. It seemed to work and gave a
distinctive shortwave signal for many years.
- Many countries, including the UK, communicate with their spies using
Numbers Stations. The
Lincolnshire Poacher, located on a UK base in Cyprus, was one of
ours.
- Shortwave radio was also used for propaganda. You can still see the
large aerials at
Woofferton, between Ludlow and Leominster, that used to carry the
broadcast of the Voice of America.
- You can occasionally visit the very first operational RADAR station at
Bawdsey, near Felixstowe.
And, of course, you can
set up your own shortwave station.