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Clearing out the high power analog tv emissions will improve signal to noise ratio for RFID emitting in the 700MHz band, and potentially allow passive satellite tracking of these RFID signals.

I’m thinking about getting a stainless steel wallet to protect against having any “enhanced” RFID cards tracked or skimmed remotely.

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(AFP/dprogram.net) According to a former 31-year IBM employee, the highly-publicized, mandatory switch from analog to digital television is mainly being done to free up analog frequencies and make room for
scanners used to read implantable RFID microchips and track people and
products throughout the world.

So while the American people, especially those in Texas and other busy border states, have been inundated lately with news reports advising them to hurry and get their expensive passports, “enhanced
driver’s licenses,” passport cards and other “chipped” or otherwise
trackable identification devices that they are being forced to own,
this digital television/RFID connection has been hidden, according to
Patrick Redmond.

Redmond, a Canadian, held a variety of jobs at IBM before retiring, including working in the company’s Toronto lab from 1992 to 2007, then in sales support. He has given talks, written a book and produced a DVD
on the aggressive, growing use of passive, semi-passive and active RFID
chips (Radio Frequency Identification Devices) implanted in new
clothing, in items such as Gillette Fusion blades, and in countless
other products that become one’s personal belongings. These RFID chips,
many of which are as small, or smaller, than the tip of a sharp pencil,
also are embedded in all new U.S. passports, some medical cards, a
growing number of credit and debit cards and so on. More than two
billion of them were sold in 2007.

Whether active, semi-passive or passive, these “transponder chips,” as they’re sometimes called, can be accessed or activated with “readers” that can pick up the unique signal given off by each chip and
glean information from it on the identity and whereabouts of the
product or person, depending on design and circumstances, as Redmond
explained in a little-publicized lecture in Canada last year. AFP just
obtained a DVD of his talk.

Noted “Spychips” expert, author and radio host Katherine Albrecht told AMERICAN FREE PRESS that while she’s not totally sure whether there is a rock-solid RFID-DTV link, “The purpose of the switch [to
digital] was to free up bandwidth. It’s a pretty wide band, so freeing
that up creates a huge swath of frequencies.”

As is generally known, the active chips have an internal power source and antenna; these particular chips emit a constant signal. “This allows the tag to send signals back to the reader, so if I have a
RFID chip on me and it has a battery, I can just send a signal to a
reader wherever it is,” Redmond stated in the recent lecture, given to
the Catholic patriot group known as the Pilgrims of Saint Michael,
which also is known for advocating social credit, a dramatic monetary
reform plan to end the practice of national governments bringing money
into existence by borrowing it, with interest, from private central
banks. The group’s publication The Michael Journal advocates having
national governments create their own money interest-free. It also
covers the RFID issue.

“The increased use of RFID chips is going to require the increased use of the UBF [UHF] spectrum,” Redmond said, hitting on his essential point that TV is going digital for a much different reason than the
average person assumes, “They are going to stop using the [UHF] and VHF
frequencies in 2009. Everything is going to go digital (in the U.S.).
Canada is going to do the same thing.”

Explaining the unsettling crux of the matter, he continued: “The reason they are doing this is that the [UHF-VHF] analog frequencies are being used for the chips. They do not want to overload the chips with
television signals, so the chips’ signals are going to be taking those
[analog] frequencies. They plan to sell the frequencies to private
companies and other groups who will use them to monitor the chips.”

Albrecht responded to that quote only by saying that it sounds plausible, since she knows some chips will indeed operate in the UHF-VHF ranges.

“Well over a million pets have been chipped,” Redmond said, adding that all 31,000 police officers in London have in some manner been chipped as well, much to the consternation of some who want that
morning donut without being tracked. London also can link a RFID chip
in a public transportation pass with the customer’s name. “Where is
John Smith? Oh, he is on subway car 32,” Redmond said.

He added that chips for following automobile drivers – while the concept is being fought by several states in the U.S. which do not want nationalized, trackable driver’s licenses (Real ID ) – is apparently a
slam dunk in Canada, where license plates have quietly been chipped.
Such identification tags can contain work history, education, religion,
ethnicity, reproductive history and much more.

Farm animals are increasingly being chipped; furthermore, “Some 800 hospitals in the U.S. are now chipping their patients; you can turn it down, but it’s available,” he said, adding: “Four hospitals in Puerto
Rico have put them in the arms of Alzheimer’s patients, and it only
costs about $200 per person.”

VeriChip, a major chip maker (the devices sometimes also are called Spychips) describes its product on its website: “About twice the length of a grain of rice, the device is typically implanted above the triceps
area of an individual’s right arm. Once scanned at the proper
frequency, the VeriChip responds with a unique 16 digit number which
could be then linked with information about the user held on a database
for identity verification, medical records access and other uses. The
insertion procedure is performed under local anesthetic in a
physician’s office and once inserted, is invisible to the naked eye. As
an implanted device used for identification by a third party, it has
generated controversy and debate.”

The circles will keep widening, Redmond predicts. Chipping children “to be able to protect them,” Redmond said, “is being promoted in the media.” After that, he believes it will come to: chip the military,
chip welfare cheats, chip criminals, chip workers who are goofing off,
chip pensioners – and then chip everyone else under whatever rationale
is cited by government and highly-protected corporations that stand to
make billions of dollars from this technology. Meanwhile, the concept
is marketed by a corporate media that, far from being a watchdog of the
surveillance state, is part of it, much like the media give free
publicity to human vaccination programs without critical analysis on
possible dangers and side effects of the vaccines.

“That’s the first time I have heard of it,” a Federal Communications Commission official claimed, when AFP asked him about the RFID-DTV issue on June 2. Preferring anonymity, he added: “I am not at all aware
of that being a cause (of going to DTV).”

“Nigel Gilbert of the Royal Academy of Engineering said that by 2011 you should be able to go on Google and find out where someone is at anytime from chips on clothing, in cars, in cellphones and inside many
people themselves,” Redmond also said.

For the Full Lecture, go HERE