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    Navaho Code Talkers Special Event Station

    A very special special event station coming in mid-August...

    From The Southgate Amateur Radio Club Site:

    The Navajo Amateur Radio Club of Window Rock, Arizona is sponsoring
    a Special Events station on the weekend of August 14-15.

    They will be operating under the Special Event call sign of K7B on
    14.265 Mhz and 7.265 Mhz from 1400Z to 0000Z each day.

    The URL to the information about the event is can be viewed at:
    http://www.southgatearc.org/news/jul...de_talkers.htm .

    They are offering a commemorative QSL card for working their station.


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    Navaho code talkers?

    Are they using Radio Shack CB's?
    http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q275/nx6d/ham%20radio/SANY1260.jpg

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    Quote Originally Posted by nx6d View Post
    Navaho code talkers?

    Are they using Radio Shack CB's?
    And how are we gonna be able to have a QSO if they're talking in code? Besides, doesn't Part 97 prohibit encrypted communications via ham radio?
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Besides, doesn't Part 97 prohibit encrypted communications via ham radio?
    they broadcast in navajo on ktnn out of window rock. you can call in on your mobile. :)
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    Too bad they arent using CW for this event, but i may break out the mic and knock the dust off of it for fun.
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    What Freak-N-Cee are the "No Code Talkers" gonna be on?

    You knew it was coming, give me a break.
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    The best ones are opened with a smile"

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    Well, i may miss it anyway since the A/C is out at my house....which really sucks.
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    Hello.

    I think the point of this is that this is an event for code talkers.
    And, amazing as this must sound, there is no violation of any FCC rules, you see, the code in question is the Navaho language.
    The Germans and Japanese simply had no interpreters for Navaho, that is the nature of the secret communications.
    There was no CW involved, just security through obscurity.
    But, even the enigma machine can be put on the air, clearly an encryption machine, you see the rules state that The intent to obscure.
    If I send an encrypted massage in an old war code, but send the massage in the clear as well as instructions on the code as well as the key, no violation has occurred.

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