Moloch (Molech) n. Anything demanding a terrible sacrifice

One of the things you will find hackers and technical geeks carrying are Amateur Radios. I myself, am trying to get my license back (don't ask, long story). There are many things you can accomplish with the HAM bands. For example, computers can run over a packet radio network to send back and forth email messages, etc. You can also intercept many transmissions with the use of the HAM bands with a transceiver. You can intercept many of them with a scanner because the CRC checksum technique.

The newest radio that a lot of people are playing with is the Yaesu VX-5R. Gustav just bought one of these and is very happy with it. It is about the size of a pager and has multi-band functionality. An image of the unit is below. Keep checking this page for more mods and updates.