Hams try to re-carve the amateur radio spectrum

Some people have been using ham radio frequencies for communication that’s encrypted or difficult to decipher and others argue that’s a threat to national security and a violation of the spirit and rules of amateur radio. In a letter [PDF] submitted earlier this week to the US Federal Communications Commission, NYU professor Theodore Rappaport, who runs the NYU Wireless research center at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, voiced support for RM-11831 [PDF], a proposed radio rule revision that, among other things, would require radio transmissions be open to public scrutiny. At the same time, Rappaport urges the FCC to reject other proposed rules, NPRM 16-239, RM-11828, RM-11759, and RM-11708, that he claims would allow more obscure or effectively encrypted communications over public radio spectrum.

Source: www.theregister.co.uk