NYU Professor Raises Concerns on Proposed Changes to Amateur Radio Rules
The FCC should reject an ARRL request for rule changes to instantly grant HF data privileges to amateur radio operators, filed Ted Rappaport, founding director of NYU Wireless at New York University School of Engineering who recently made a pitch…
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to the agency for 6G wireless spectrum (see 1903190059). It's "a thinly disguised attempt to immediately add up to 385,000 new HF digital stations that could build upon the existing network of … relay stations that provide effectively encrypted transmissions that cannot be cannot be monitored for content by other amateur operators or the FCC,” Rappaport said in docket 16-239, posted Thursday. It would “perpetuate illegal and secure, international email service while crowding the US HF amateur bands with unintelligible wideband data traffic and intense interference,” he said. Friday, ARRL didn’t comment.