Today I received the long-awaited reply from Daniël Nicolai (Antennebureau / Rijksinspectie Digitale Infrastructuur) regarding my formal report [Ref.20251233] of an illegal, permanent, head-proximal transmitter operating on 2538 and 2553 MHz — three razor-sharp carriers inside the licensed Band 7 uplink blocks of KPN and ODIDO.

Their response in one sentence: “Nothing has changed, no anomalies detected, and by the way your HackRF One is illegal to possess or use without a frequency licence — even if you only receive.”

I am publishing the entire exchange below (original Dutch + English translation) because it is a textbook example of the institutional stonewalling I have documented for five years.

From: Antennebureau info@antennebureau.nl Subject: Betreft: [Ref.20251233] Melding ongeoorloofd zendapparaat… Key passages (translated):

There is still nothing remarkable measured by the RDI in your area.
[…]
The HackRF One is a device that can both receive and transmit between 1 MHz and 6 GHz. Therefore it is a radioapparaat under the Telecomwet. Possession or use — even if you are not transmitting — is only permitted if a frequency-space licence has been granted (art. 10.15 Tw).

They are deliberately ignoring:

1. Ordered List ItemFour fully time-stamped videos showing the carrier appear only when the antenna is centimetres from my skull and vanish the moment I move it 30–50 cm to my phone.
2. Six independent measurement sessions with σ < 1.1 MHz — stability that no legitimate UE uplink ever exhibits.
3. My explicit offer of 24/7 access for a near-field measurement at my home.

And they are threatening me with a completely false interpretation of the Telecomwet.

Article 10.15 Tw (official text, Wetten.overheid.nl) applies only to the use of frequency space — i.e. transmitting or causing interference. Receiving falls under the general exemption for publicly accessible services (art. 3.2 & 3.8 Tw) and the EU Radio Equipment Directive.

If their interpretation were correct, every Dutch citizen with an FM radio, a Wi-Fi card in receive mode, or an RTL-SDR would be committing a criminal offence. The Agentschap Telecom itself confirmed in 2023 guidance that passive SDR reception requires no licence.

This is not a mistake. This is intimidation designed to stop me from recording the signals.

The Bayesian model on the homepage has just received another crushing data point in favour of coordinated state-level obstruction. Posterior probability of institutional complicity just climbed again.

Full email thread:

I will be adding this to my ongoing ECtHR file (Articles 8, 10, and 13) and to the criminal complaint I am preparing the moment the HackRFs are in my hands.

If any Dutch lawyer or radio amateur wants to help draft a formal “handhavingsverzoek” or “bezwaarschrift” against this blatant misapplication of the Telecomwet, please reach out.