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Didn’t know where to ask but what is this large antenna used for on the secret service vehicles?
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clbsquared
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I think they are used to jam the signal of any drones. That’s just what I’ve heard.
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dickie757
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That's definitely a perpective I would never want to see....Fed red and blue with an antenna farm. I have seen the antenna farm on a Suburban (or Yukon or Tahoe idk), but the driver was nice and friendly while he asked me what we were doing at his site. I says...some other three letters doesnt want to play radio any more, then other three letters walks up behind me and Tahoe waves and drives off. Pucker factor of 10.
Anyone in the market for a used antenna?
Anyone in the market for a used antenna?
Interesting.
d119
Patch & Channels Clear...
The hell did I just read?
dickie757
Wired
Industry Discussion about a General Motors product that has USG license plates and funky set of antennas designed to do what we all get paid to NOT happen...interfere with wireless communication.
I think he was saying that he was talking with someone with an antenna farm on their SUV and that some other person working for a 3-letter organization (FBI, ATF, CIA, SOB, BLT, LOL, I don't know) came up to him and he left.
The motorcade sometimes has a specific vehicle for jamming IEDs and cell phone type stuff with several fat antennas but there is only one fat broad band antenna on the vehicle above. I do see other VHF/UHF antennas and what might be a VHF lo whip (maybe a blackened mil 30-90MHz?) on the back so it could be just a commo vehicle. The fat antenna might be a broad band 225-400 for mil com compatibility. If its a com vehicle it might be like a scaled down version of a Roadrunner, which I've had the privilege of touring the insides.
Yes, used for jamming, when Trump was a candidate you'd see it on several vehicles, including the one he was in, Biden yesterday had it on only one SUV and not what he was riding in, there is also a second vehicle with an antenna farm.
Biden's SUV in Charleston SC January 19th
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Yes, counter drone, IED, etc. I miss the "Roadrunner" rigs....with the two big VHF antennas myself. The X-wing is satcom, also using "phantom" style antennas. VHF/UHF/7/800 MHz, UHF satcom, and counter IED. And, even as a comms guy, one black rig will have a Dillon/Aero M134 that can be flipped up on short notice (I am into comms and guns).
Those guys have all kinds of antennas. I'm sure they mean something...
Be safe
Be safe
I don't think that specific antenna is used for jamming, that seems to be a done by a separate vehicle with nothing but large fat antennas with heat sinks on some. I'll put $$ on its just a com antenna and probably for 225-400MHz or 118-400MHz another mil band. All the other antennas on the vehicle are narrow band LMR types and you wouldn't see a jammer in the same vehicle that handles 2-way communications. Here is what is believed to be a jamming vehicle and probably manned by someone in the US armed forces as the USSS or any federal agency should not be allowed to jam civilian radio frequencies, but the military can.
The vehicle that RaleighGuy posted with the extra top piece has a bunch of Laird triband antennas and a UHF satcom antenna plus a square flat panel which would be for a satellite service. Its almost like a small version of the Roadrunner which used to be the main communications vehicle for White House Communications and I was asked by the SS at one time what it would take to put DirecTV in a Roadrunner vehicle so they can track all the news channels during an event. I got to climb all through a Roadrunner a number of years ago and unfortunately was not allowed to take any pictures. But I can say it had radios that covered HF through 800MHz including UHF satcom and it was very well engineered. All this is public information of course. Here is a pic of the Roadrunner version that I climbed through.
While I know you are very well informed, I believe the vehicle you posted is an older vehicle, no motorcade in the past year that I have seen (and I have seen many POTUS and VP) has antennas that large anymore, they are limited to the two vehicles I posted above.I don't think that specific antenna is used for jamming, that seems to be a done by a separate vehicle with nothing but large fat antennas with heat sinks on some. I'll put $$ on its just a com antenna and probably for 225-400MHz or 118-400MHz another mil band. All the other antennas on the vehicle are narrow band LMR types and you wouldn't see a jammer in the same vehicle that handles 2-way communications. Here is what is believed to be a jamming vehicle and probably manned by someone in the US armed forces as the USSS or any federal agency should not be allowed to jam civilian radio frequencies, but the military can.
The vehicle that RaleighGuy posted with the extra top piece has a bunch of Laird triband antennas and a UHF satcom antenna plus a square flat panel which would be for a satellite service. Its almost like a small version of the Roadrunner which used to be the main communications vehicle for White House Communications and I was asked by the SS at one time what it would take to put DirecTV in a Roadrunner vehicle so they can track all the news channels during an event. I got to climb all through a Roadrunner a number of years ago and unfortunately was not allowed to take any pictures. But I can say it had radios that covered HF through 800MHz including UHF satcom and it was very well engineered. All this is public information of course. Here is a pic of the Roadrunner version that I climbed through.
Yes, the vehicle I was in has been retired. The vehicle with lots of fat antennas has been seen in more recent times.
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