Secret Mexican mobile network

[SCPD]

Mexico shuts down drug gang's antennas, radios • The Register

This is very interesting. I wonder if we'll start hearing more HF comms now that the above network has been put out of commission.

 

[Astro25]

One of the other news reports from a different news source had some pictures of the seized equipment, there were pictures of DB404/DB420 UHF commercial antennas and GHZ band link equipment.... nothing pictured/mentioned was in the HF band, everything I saw pictured was commercial VHF and UHF stuff.

 

[MtnBiker2005]

Photos:
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/12/mexico-seizes-zetas-communications.html
http://insightcrime.org/component/k2/item/1925-mexico-seizes-zetas-communications-system


Other thread: http://forums.radioreference.com/me...an-army-dismantles-gangs-antennas-radios.html

 

[SCPD]

I wonder if they'd gimmie one of those towers and stacked arrays?!

 

[Skypilot007]

Anybody recognize those portables on the table or those base stations in the video? Or any of the radio gear? Most are the same. Just curious as I don't recognize them. What kind of equipment did they have in place? It's interesting what kind of network they were able to put together for their own personal use.

 

[datainmotion]

Could have sworn someone posted a link here this past year talking about the trunked (and possibly encrypted) network of sites just South of the US Border that one of the cartels had built.

 

[Astro25]

Most of the portables pictured are Kenwood NX300 UHF NEXEDGE Digital radios....very well could have been digital trunked/encrypted.