New 5G LTE Digital Mobile Radio? (Sussex Police) Mystery Cache
New 5G LTE Digital Mobile Radio? (Sussex Police)
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This cache is a 35mm film pot placed at ground level. Sorry, the last few feet are unlikely to be accessible to wheelchair cachers.
New Police / public protection and disaster relief (PPDR) / emergency services critical communications 5G LTE digital mobile radio system:
Critical Communications Systems - definition:
Resilient, priority access, secure, very low end-to-end latency, communications systems such as those used by the UK gas and electricity utility industries, also the emergency services and disaster relief (PPDR) systems.
Resilience - definition:
Resilience of critical communications systems requires the network to continue to operate correctly during and after a natural or man-made disturbance e.g. the loss of mains power to one or many base stations.
Finding the cache - almost:
Ok, finding this cache is not based on the new Police / public protection and disaster relief (PPDR) / emergency services critical communications 5G LTE digital mobile radio data system.
It is based on a 45-year-old analogue mobile radio communications system that, like the new Police / public protection and disaster relief (PPDR) / emergency services critical communications 5G LTE digital mobile radio system, transmitted data to and from mobiles.
Then, like the new Police / public protection and disaster relief (PPDR) / emergency services critical communications 5G LTE digital mobile radio systems, this data was converted into photo-like images.
(Ok, that should be enough times of mentioning 'the new Police / public protection and disaster relief (PPDR) / emergency services critical communications 5G LTE digital mobile radio system' to get this cache high on the hit list on website search engines, and lead the searchers to an accurate definition of critical communications systems rather than the watered-down version that has been circulated within the industry so that the proposed 5G / LTE will meet that version.)
Emergency Services Data Communications Systems of the Past:
As this cache highlights, data transmissions were available to the Police and other Emergency Services way back in 1969.
Unlike today, data transmission was cutting-edge state-of-the-art technology.
Amazingly, 45-years later, it still hasn't been taken up by the Emergency Services.
I wonder, therefore, whether data transmission is as essential to the Emergency Services as the suppliers suggest. Especially the mobile phone operators that are seeking huge amounts of recovered Broadcasting radio spectrum to supply those data services.
The 1969 film:
The puzzle of establishing the location of the cache requires you to watch the British Pathe black & white film of the Sussex Police at Lewes in 1969 via this link (visit link)
It shows a demonstration of the 1969 analogue Mufax fax machine in operation.
(I believe it was at Lewes Town Hall in 1969 that I saw a live demonstration of this analogue Mufax system by the Sussex Police.)
You will see that two faxes are sent from the Sussex Police Headquarters.
The first is of the details of the vehicle a suspect is driving.
The second is of a photograph of the suspect.
These are then received by the six Sussex Police cars that are fitted with the analogue Mufax data transmission system.
One Sussex Police car, the one that is seen to receive the analogue data fax, is parked outside of the Sussex Police Headquarters (I assume) at Lewes.
The other car, the one that gives chase to the driver matching the man in the photograph, is parked at the Reference Point co-ordinates.
There is then a series of car chase shots which result in the police officer pulling over and apprehending the suspect.
Finding the cache:
To find the cache, you need to:
- watch the film / video;
- identify the location where the suspect was pulled over and apprehended;
- establish the location of the apprehended vehicle;
- establish the co-ordinates of the small concrete object 6ft / 2m north of the vehicle;
- subtract 00.198 from the latitude / northing;
- subtract 00.660 from the longitude / easting;
- go to and search around these calculated final co-ordinates.
Simples!
The Cast:
Do you recognise any of the people in the film?
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Fhfcrpg: fvkgl gjb
TM: onfr bs cbfg
Treasures
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