This is an update of some of our activities for the month of February 2025.

We have been joined by new comrades from North Carolina and Sweden this month. The first has obtained their Technician and General license, and the other is working on the Swedish Amateur Radio Operator’s License.

One comrade’s EFRW antenna is finally back up after being knocked down by hurricane force winds.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has developed a very interesting tool called Rayhunter. They describe it as an “IMSI catcher catcher”. IMSI catchers (a.k.a. cell-site simulators [CSS] or Stingrays) are fake cell towers used by police to collect cellphone traffic by simulating a legitimate cellphone tower that phones would automatically connect to, thus eliminating the need for police to obtain a warrant for the same data from cellphone carriers. It will be interesting, once the data comes in, to see how prevalent the use of CSS really are.

Creating a Drone Based Synthetic Aperture Radar is now within reach for anyone with about 800 EUR and a lot of time on their hands.

So while it really hasn’t been a good month generally for people in the US who actually attempt to provide a basic level of service to their fellow humans, February has at least shown some promise for low-cost counter-surveillance technology.