March 8th 08, 07:33 PM
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WiFi Link from top of tower
"Bruce in alaska" wrote in message
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In article ,
Richard Clark wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 13:18:45 -0800, (Dave Platt)
wrote:
Plugging an arbitrarily-chosen antenna into a WiFi radio (access point
or client) will void the Part 15 certification of the device, and it
becomes technically illegal to operate it.
Hi Dave,
At the risk of becoming a stockade-lawyer, I've perused the band plans
(I presume that the 13cM band has not been confiscated in the past few
years), and I think I am reasonably adept at the law in this regard.
As WiFi shares our allocation; it is noteworthy that we as amateurs
are the ONLY service that does NOT require FCC type acceptance to
operate. To my mind, the only issue is one of knowingly interfering
with a service (that doesn't seem to be an issue, however).
73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC
True Richard, HOWEVER, if your passing Internet Traffic, over your
none-Type Accepted, Amateur Licensed WiFi Link, you MUST abide by
ALL the rules of Part 97, not just the ERP Rules, including Non-
Commercial Content, and Identification.
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Bruce in alaska
add path after fast to reply
most, but not all, of the channels used for wifi fall in the amateur
allocation. so if you really want to be technical be sure you set the
access point on the good channels, as well as adding your call for
identification, filtering content, etc.
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