Spycraft

[Ensnared]

I was watching surfing cable channels last Sunday when I ran across this story about the Spy Museum.

They had a section of the museum that was separated from the rest. In this room, I spotted several police scanners. Since I owned a "footwarmer" Bearcat 250, I spotted straight away. I am not sure, but I thought there might have been a Regency MX 7000 on the 2nd shelf.

So, if you like, see if you can spot other radios.

Video Inside the International Spy Museum’s new vault of artifacts

I know this broadcasted on the Disney News channel, but I thought it was interesting.

 

[kc2asb]

Thanks for sharing! To the right of the two Bearcat 250's, there are two Realistic PRO-2001's. The 2001 was their first programmable scanner with a keyboard.

 

[IC-R20]

They also have a Testicle Transceiver in there. Oh the trouble I could get into with that one.

Scrotum Concealment

 

[dlwtrunked]

I was watching surfing cable channels last Sunday when I ran across this story about the Spy Museum.

They had a section of the museum that was separated from the rest. In this room, I spotted several police scanners. Since I owned a "footwarmer" Bearcat 250, I spotted straight away. I am not sure, but I thought there might have been a Regency MX 7000 on the 2nd shelf.

So, if you like, see if you can spot other radios.

Video Inside the International Spy Museum’s new vault of artifacts

I know this broadcasted on the Disney News channel, but I thought it was interesting.

If you want to see what is in the actual Agency's museum (not the above place), see the link below. (I have actually been there, but it is not of course open to the public due to its Langley location. However, the webpages in the link shows lots of photos including some of radios.)

CIA Museum - CIA

www.cia.gov

 

[Ensnared]

If you want to see what is in the actual Agency's museum (not the above place), see the link below. (I have actually been there, but it is not of course open to the public due to its Langley location. However, the webpages in the link shows lots of photos including some of radios.)

CIA Museum - CIA

www.cia.gov

I was in the Galleria in Houston day. I spotted a spy store there. Reportedly, this countersurveillance is important in the business world, particularly in Houston. The owner told me that these were some of his biggest customers.

In fact, Macy's carried some of this equipment in Houston. This was mostly retail.

He showed me a few things there. I was impressed with this attaché he showed me. Inside, there were telephone switches (obviously before smart phones, LOL). He also showed me some high-end thermal imaging devices.

The owner told me that an appointment was needed If I wanted more information.

Thaks for your response & hyperlink.

 

[Wilrobnson]

I remember a Spy/PI Store in Seattle 20 years ago. Wandered in to see what they had (had KF7YN with me). Not much to look at, but the owener was more than happy to explain to us like we were idiots about his "super high gain discone antenna for bug detecion"...at which point we repaired to a restaurant to giggle.

 

[Ensnared]

Thanks for sharing! To the right of the two Bearcat 250's, there are two Realistic PRO-2001's. The 2001 was their first programmable scanner with a keyboard.

Yes, but I would have expected them to have much more sophisticated ways of monitoring.

While scratching my head, I thought, "this is a decoy that works like a scanner & bugging device for scanner listeners", LOL. I remember using the harmonic formula to listen to DEA frequencies. The Bearcat 250 did not go there unless you added the IF to the frequency, or something like that.

Did they have laser-to-window bugging devices back then? I sure don't know. They have all of the cool gadgets.

 

[dlwtrunked]

...He also showed me some high-end thermal imaging devices.

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That part made me laugh. I retired from 19 years at the U.S. Army lab that developed that technology where I was involve in R&D- what I have seen, he cannot have. Funnier is that my best own device came from China but I had to sign ITAR (International Traffic in Arms) paperwork to get it saying I would not export it to China. (I guess I can forget about the warranty for repair.)

 

[Ensnared]

That part made me laugh. I retired from 19 years at the U.S. Army lab that developed that technology where I was involve in R&D- what I have seen, he cannot have. Funnier is that my best own device came from China but I had to sign ITAR (International Traffic in Arms) paperwork to get it saying I would not export it to China. (I guess I can forget about the warranty for repair.)

 

[kc2asb]

Yes, but I would have expected them to have much more sophisticated ways of monitoring.

While scratching my head, I thought, "this is a decoy that works like a scanner & bugging device for scanner listeners", LOL. I remember using the harmonic formula to listen to DEA frequencies. The Bearcat 250 did not go there unless you added the IF to the frequency, or something like that.

One would think that they would use more sophisticated equipment than off-the-shelf scanners, but who knows? The Bearcat 250 and PRO-2001 were decent enough receivers. Perhaps they were used for less critical monitoring needs? We can only speculate

 

[IC-R20]

One would think that they would use more sophisticated equipment than off-the-shelf scanners, but who knows? The Bearcat 250 and PRO-2001 were decent enough receivers. Perhaps they were used for less critical monitoring needs? We can only speculate

Well plus it's easy to modify, they might've even worked out a hush-hush contract with the manufacturer for unlocked units, undiscriminated audio tap and a serial port already preinstalled for remote/computer use. In the pre-SDR era they had a huge edge on the typical Communications Receiver being able to bandsweep incredibly quickly and eventually later on added the ever useful nearfield/closecall modes.

 

[IC-R20]

I was in the Galleria in Houston day. I spotted a spy store there. Reportedly, this countersurveillance is important in the business world, particularly in Houston. The owner told me that these were some of his biggest customers.

In fact, Macy's carried some of this equipment in Houston. This was mostly retail.

He showed me a few things there. I was impressed with this attaché he showed me. Inside, there were telephone switches (obviously before smart phones, LOL). He also showed me some high-end thermal imaging devices.

The owner told me that an appointment was needed If I wanted more information.

Thaks for your response & hyperlink.

Yeah a lot of those guys are junk hockers and frauds with fairy tale stories to swindle fools into buying their insane markups on rebranded off the shelf equipment.