Corrected entry: Britain is a Nuclear Power. As soon as the UK Government "lost control" of its nuclear weapons, it is a safe bet that a large chunk of the US Navy would have been sitting off the coast to prevent any weapons falling in to the wrong hands. While the exact capabilities of their Electronic Warefare Ships is classified, if a taxi driver in London could pick up the Majors signal, they certainly would too.
Jazetopher
12th Jul 2006
28 Days Later (2002)
Correction: Yes, but not instantaneously. It would likely take just a little while to get there, plus you have to consider that the transmission was picked up on a radio. Just because the Majors signal was out there does not mean it will be found, especially if the US military isn't looking for it. I am sure they would be a lot of other procedures to go through before scanning radio stations for a hidden signal.
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Correction: The military uses something similar to a spectrum analyzer to visually monitor broad swaths of RF spectrum at a time. In other words a ships radio room can monitor the entire radio spectrum in real time with an analog spectrum scope as well as a digital FFT display, they would see his RF signal as a trace on an FFT waterfall display or a peak on an analog spectrum scope and then simply tune to that frequency. My equipment is over 25 years old so I'm sure they have much greater capability then I do and I have the capability of monitoring from 0.1Khz to 6Ghz in real time which easily covers the entire civilian broadcast frequencies they would be using. The moment they started broadcasting NATO would have known about it. Triangulating their actual position would have taken a while but they were broadcasting their position as well as giving directions so that solved that problem.