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Amateur Radio Station to Mark NRA's 145th Birthday:

Posted: 23 Oct 2016 05:10 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37837


Attention all Hams! The Yavapai Amateur Radio Club (YARC) of Prescott,
Arizona -- broadcasting from the Gunsite Academy's 2,000-acre campus north
of Prescott -- will operate a special event station Nov. 17, 2016, to help
celebrate the NRA's 145th birthday. The call sign will be K7NRA, an
FCC-licensed radio station. Operations will be conducted from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. (Mountain Standard Time) and will be available on the following
amateur frequencies: 7.250, 14.050, 14.250 and 21.335 MHz.


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Suspicious Signals Spark Fear of Extremists, Ham Radio Ops Now 247:

Posted: 23 Oct 2016 05:10 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37836


Alarmed over the incident, the operators informed the Centre following
which they were called to an international monitoring centre (Radio) and
asked to track the signals. Suspicious signals in coded Bengali and Urdu
languages along the India-Bangladesh border in past few months have raised
suspicion over extremists using this unconventional mode of communication,
prompting authorities to deploy Ham radio operators on round-the-clock
duty. The incident first came into light in June after amateur Ham radio
operators picked suspicious radio signals and unauthorised radio
communications in coded Bengali and Urdu in Basirhat and Sunderbans region.
Alarmed over the incident, the operators informed the Centre following
which they were called to an international monitoring centre (Radio) and
asked to track the signals. A team of 23 Ham radio operators are now on
round-the-clock duty trying to track the exact location of radio
signals. "The incident is highly suspicious and threat to security. Because
whenever we tried to converse with them, they have stopped talking. Again
after certain point of time they start their communication in coded Bengali
and Urdu language," said Ambarish Nag Biswas, secretary of Bengal Amateur
Radio Club.
"Those who were communicating on the radio frequencies had a distinct
Bangladeshi accent. I alerted my radio club members and they too received
such conversations. This kind of communication started in June and was
going on till Durga Puja," he told PTI. Biswas said after the incident came
into fore they had written to the Union Ministry of Communication and
Information Technology, highlighting the strange signals and the suspicious
mode of coded communication.


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Posted: 23 Oct 2016 05:09 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37835


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