The Brazilian Federal Police are trying to crackdown on the hijacking of U.S. military satellites — an illegal routine that is so well entrenched that it has become something of a “ national phenomenon . ”
Much of this country ’s geography is remote , and beyond the range of cellphone coverage , making American satellite an idealistic , if illegal , communications option . The trouble go back more than a decennium , to the mid-1990s , when Brazilian radio technicians discovered they could jump on the UHF frequencies dedicated to orbiter in the Navy ’s Fleet Satellite Communication system , or FLTSATCOM . They ’ve been at it ever since .
In fact , everyone from truck drivers to drug dealers to soccer fans have commandeer the system to increase the range of their communicating or coordinate operation . Because the practice session is so widespread , root out it on the earth is probably not go to have a major impact . However , it does illustrate the woebegone obsolescence of military satellite technology . [ Wired ]
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