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[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Online ham radio sale triggers terror alarm

The *Times of India* reports on concerns over the unrestricted online sale
of amateur radio sets which can be used across a wide spectrum

The newspaper says Kolkata Police is particularly wary of the sets being
used by northeast-based terror outfits and even Islamic State modules in
neighbouring Bangladesh.

While ham radio frequency is between 144 MHz and 146 MHz, some of the sets
being sold over online retail platforms like Amazon India, eBay and
ShopYourWorld have a much wider frequency spectrum that can be exploited by
terror modules to communicate with each other. Cops in the state have
received intelligence alerts about ham sets being used by the militant
group Kamtapur Liberation Organization, which has a presence in north
Bengal.

The Chinese ham radio sets being sold online have a frequency spectrum of
136 MHz to 174 MHz that covers weather satellites, amateur ham, police and
marine. Sets with such powerful transmitting capacity in the wrong hands
make the country vulnerable to subversive activities, says *Indranil
Majumdar VU2KFR*, licensed amateur radio operator and an electronics
engineer.

Read the full story at
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Online-ham-radio-sale-triggers-terror-alarm/articleshow/53836502.cms
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