As most of you probably already know messing with fast food workers has become much more difficult since the advent of digital radio. Here's a link about some of the more common equipment you'll see on fast food workers heads these days.
http://www.ist4pos.com/blog/?p=224And while exploiting this technology is still possible with a computer controlled radio and the right software (ill get to that later), it's still a lot harder than it was with the straight analog of the old days. However, there are still targets using analog in the clear.
Namely, Mall Cops. If you hop on
www.cityfreq.com and look up your local area, chances are you'll find the mall security frequencies listed there. They may not all be active but it will narrow down your search if you're limited on the equipment end.
For example after checking my local area I found three freq's allotted to the mall:
452.225
461.25
466.25
Now if you know anything about RF, you'd know that at these freq's communication is going to be pretty short range. Cityfreq even let me know that the Radio base station put out a max power of 10W. Probably powerful enough to reach out 1000m or so in an open environment. Thus all my searching could be done from the parking lot, but the base station is not what we are after, it's the individual mall cops that are the targets here.
What you want to do here is scan from the mall parking lot, find out exactly which freq's are what. During my search I discovered that 461.25 was the only active mall freq, single channel, simplex. Easy day. That basically means that everyone is communicating on the same freq, forward and reverse. Only problem with that is the base station will be able to out power my hand held.
The equipment I used consisted of a modified Yaseu FT-50 (I highly recommend grabbing one, if you can find one) which can transmit up to 5w. When modified its also capable of recieving from 76mhz-999mhz, and transmitting from 120-180mhz and 430-550mhz. It's slightly more powerful than most of the Mall Cop radios, but half that of the base station. I also used a ICOM V8 to monitor the actual police, you know, the ones that have some semblance of authority.
Now, once you've got your freqs and made note of your call signs the fun actually begins. Chances are you won't have enough power to mess with anyone from the parking lot, short of the mobile units outside. What you need to do is head inside the mall and take up a position on a nice comfy, out of the way bench. A single ear bud and small Mic would help, but in reality are not necessary. Best way to cover your tracks is just to pretend you're on a cell phone chatting away.
Now since you've made note of the call signs it shouldn't be to difficult to hop onto their Net. Start off slow, but you are going to want to call in a major disturbance in front of footlocker at least once every fifteen minutes, or until your covers blown. Use this at your discretion, I'm sure you all can come up with a few interesting things to cause a little chaos.
RFBURN
