[FedCom] FedCom - Amateur/digital

[Greg Brazil]

One mans opinion.  This is not a Amateur list, it's a Fed Comm list.  
All this bitching about posting the last few days, not one frequency or 
city posted.

BTW< I don't listen to Feds.

On 6/25/2019 4:26 PM, gfdubois at juno.com wrote:
>>> ENC on Amateur is illegal
> A number of years ago, the FCC started allowing digital emissions under
> Part 97.309(b).
> No doubt to "advance the radio art."
>
> They have to use a readily available encryption key or code.
> Which is probably what that guy meant.
>
>
> Funny thing. About 20+ years ago, the two radio techs for the FB1 were
> both amateurs and regularly used two-meters in the evening to discuss
> what they were doing with their employer's system. You could learn a lot,
> listening to those guys.
>
>
> Geo.
>
>
>
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> (b) Where authorized by §§ 97.305(c) and 97.307(f), a station may
> transmit a
> RTTY or data emission using an unspecified digital code, except to a
> station
> in a country with which the United States does not have an agreement
> permitting the code to be used.
> RTTY and data emissions using unspecified digital codes must not be
> transmitted for the purpose of obscuring the meaning of any
> communication.
> When deemed necessary by a Regional Director to assure compliance
> with the FCC Rules, a station must:
> (1) Cease the transmission using the unspecified digital code;
> (2) Restrict transmissions of any digital code to the extent instructed;
> (3) Maintain a record, convertible to the original information, of all
> digital
> communications transmitted
>
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>
>>> I'm also in the Philadelphia area.  Speaking of encryption, the
>>> FBI operates a 2M P25 amateur repeater in Philadelphia that
>>> uses encryption. A FBI employee who's a ham told me about it.
>>>   I forget the frequency, but can find out.  I just though it's
> interesting.
>>> He told me the key isn't  very hard to guess.
>
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