ARRL to FCC: Changes to Encryption Rules Not Necessary:

from The ARRL Letter on July 12, 2013
Website: http://www.arrl.org/

ARRL to FCC: Changes to Encryption Rules Not Necessary:
The ARRL is calling on the FCC to deny a Petition for Rule Making http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7022424684 (RM-11699) seeking to permit the encryption of certain amateur communications during emergency operations or related training exercises. Don Rolph, AB1PH, of East Walpole, Massachusetts, petitioned the Commission in March to suggest an additional exception to §97.113, which currently prohibits "messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning."