Don't know if anybody caught the bit about Jack Del Rio complaining about the malfunctioning coach to QB radio. But it got me to wondering just how easy it might be for a fan with some high powered radio equipment to listen into or perhaps even jam/disrupt a team's coach/QB radio communications.
Del Rio complains about coach to QB communications
I know that at least one freak out there actually cares enough to scan and monitor these things.
http://www.davidschoenberger.net/scanni ... oudoun.htm
So I've got to think somewhere along the line an obsessed fan with a big ass radio transmitter has gotten busy with a team's headsets?
Disrupting coach to QB radio communications
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BSmack
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Disrupting coach to QB radio communications
"Once upon a time, dinosaurs didn't have families. They lived in the woods and ate their children. It was a golden age."
—Earl Sinclair
"I do have respect for authority even though I throw jelly dicks at them.
- Antonio Brown
—Earl Sinclair
"I do have respect for authority even though I throw jelly dicks at them.
- Antonio Brown
I think the wristband is the best way to go w/ plays. Have all the plays scripted on the band and then just signal in numbers. Stadiums are too loud, plus hard hits could disrupt frequency and hackers might allso play a role as well. College teams seem to go great w/ the band and I have noticed more and more NFL teams going to it.
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poptart wrote:Coach to QB radio communication is part of the fagging-down of the NFL.
NEVER should have been allowed into the game.....NEVAH.
The league has shit on it's face.
What's new...?
Next season QBs will wear red flags and instead of being tackled the defensive players must rip them off. but they must not do it in a hostile manner or they will be flagged 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Al Davis=Fidel Castro
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I've got a couple of co-workers who could melt Luther's pacemaker with their rigs. And they don't look very conspicuous at all. Especially in a big assed parking lot with 50,000 or so other cars, trucks, vans, RVs and news trucks with satellite gear etc.mvscal wrote:I doubt it. At least not without making yourself very obvious.
"Once upon a time, dinosaurs didn't have families. They lived in the woods and ate their children. It was a golden age."
—Earl Sinclair
"I do have respect for authority even though I throw jelly dicks at them.
- Antonio Brown
—Earl Sinclair
"I do have respect for authority even though I throw jelly dicks at them.
- Antonio Brown
Yeah, assuming the NFL has a few intercept posts set up a couple of miles apart that are capable of triangulating a broadcast. Or not.mvscal wrote:It wouldn't be too tough to DF the signal assuming you have the equipment to do so.
It really wouldn't take a bunch of special equipment to jam if you knew the freqs. A hand-held walkie-talkie fairly close to the sideline would likely be enough to disrupt coach to QB comms.
