I'm running into an interesting dilemma. We have been shipping automotive radar detectors without FCC certification based on the rule 15.103 (a) Exempted Devices because they are a digital device utilized exclusively in any transportation vehicle including motor vehicles and aircraft. We are now adding a NOAA scanning receiver to these detectors. Several questions come up... 1) Are we still exempt based on the above rule 15.103? 2) If we are not exempt, then under what rule do we now apply? 3) Given the fact that the local oscillator on the radar detector is around 11GHz, do we need to test up to that range even if the radio receiver is at a much lower frequency and the radar portion is supposed to be exempt? 4) Most importantly, have we been making the wrong assumption from the start and the radar detectors should have been tested all along?
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