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Mystery as North Korean Radio Broadcasts String of Random Numbers:

Posted: 20 Jul 2016 11:09 AM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37212


North Korea's state radio has recently broadcast strings of indecipherable
numbers in a possible move echoing a Cold War-era method of sending coded
messages to spies operating in South Korea. A female announcer at the radio
station read numbers for two minutes on June 24 and 14 minutes on Friday,
according to Seoul's Unification Ministry and National Intelligence
Service, including phrases such as 'turn to page 459, question 35' in what
she described as a mathematics assignment. During the Cold War, Pyongyang
sent such numbers via shortwave radio to give missions to agents dispatched
to South Korea, according to captured North Korean spies. South Korea jams
most North Korean radio frequencies but Pyongyang-based Voice of Korea
broadcasts on shortwave signals which can be picked up far beyond the
Korean peninsula, and are difficult to jam.


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Amateur 47 GHz Allocation Avoids 5G Juggernaut in the US for Now:

Posted: 20 Jul 2016 11:08 AM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37211


There's good news regarding the future of Amateur Radio's primary
allocation at 47 GHz in the US. Still a test bed for point-to-point
propagation experimentation by dedicated enthusiasts, the 47-47.2
GHz band is among those under consideration at the next World
Radiocommunication Conference in 2019 (WRC-19) to accommodate
so-called 5G wireless broadband devices. Early this year, some FCC
commissioners indicated they would include bands on the WRC-19
agenda in the Commission's "Spectrum Frontiers" 5G initiative. As
the Commission put it this week as it made nearly 11 gigahertz of
spectrum above 24.25 GHz available for licensed, unlicensed, and
shared use: "High-band millimeter wave spectrum is key to unlocking
the potential for 5G." The FCC's Spectrum Frontiers included several
of the bands set for consideration at WRC-19, but not the 47 GHz
band - although it did target 47.2-50.2 GHz.


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ARRL Central Division Director Dick Isely, W9GIG, Steps Down:

Posted: 20 Jul 2016 11:07 AM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37210


Saying it was time that the ARRL Central Division had younger
leadership, Central Division Director Dick Isely, W9GIG, of Saint
Charles, Illinois, has resigned from the League's Board of
Directors. He has been succeeded by Vice Director Kermit Carlson,
W9XA, of Batavia, Illinois.