3 synchronized receive stations to fix my location, and then what would they do?

Yeah sorry I meant like from different places in a city, not just not at home.

It’s for sure rude and not something I’d try/recommend but we’re talking about espionage here.

Am I wrong in thinking that if I wanted to propagate revolutionary thought and went to a different neighbourhood with an HT and transmitted to the local repeater, it would be hard for the state to find me if my transmission was less than 5 minutes?

I’m saying an intermittent signal from varying locations would not be easy to trace. ARDF is a nearly continuous signal from immobile stations and it is not trivial, it is competitive.

It’s not laughably easy.

Not with a handheld that you don’t use at home. But correct me if I’m wrong.