All, I finally found the R&O for the antenna rule change I referred to. Here it is...
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-04-165A1.doc The change to 15.204 is about 1/2 to 2/3 of the way through the document. Best Regards, Dave Heald David Heald EMC Engineer / Worldwide Regulatory Symbol Technologies tel: +1.631.738.5373 fax: +1.631.738.3915 Symbol. The Enterprise Mobility Company. (TM) >>> "David Heald" <[email protected]> 10/05/04 04:14PM >>> Anders, I'll offer the following advice 1. That's definitely not acceptable. If you could get away with any software having this capability, you might be able to do it with test software - but definitely not with production software. 2. The type of antenna & gain: Antennas of the same TYPE with the SAME or LOWER gain no longer require retesting (as of sometime this year, I think). NOTE - this is only for antennas of the same type. If you go from monopole to dipole or any other antenna type, you will need to perform permissive change testing. But if you go from a 3dBi dipole to a 2dBi dipole, no requirement for test. Also, it follows that if you increase the gain of the antenna, you must re-test & file a permissive change (this hasn't changed). Best Regards, -Dave Heald David Heald EMC Engineer / Worldwide Regulatory Symbol Technologies tel: +1.631.738.5373 fax: +1.631.738.3915 Symbol. The Enterprise Mobility Company. (TM) >>> "Anders Svensson B (LI/EAB)" <[email protected]> 08/31/04 04:19AM >>> Dear group, I hope someone could help me about the following regulatory questions regarding a WLAN accesspoint (802.11b and g) for the EU and US/Canada market. 1. Is it permitted to have the power output adjustable by SW settings so you can exceed the allowed power output if wrong settings are made? The power settings should only be done by operators not the users. 2. Is it allowed to use any antenna that have the same or less antenna gain than that we use for our approval test or must always the antenna be certified together with the unit? If the answer is yes, can we also use a antenna with higher gain if we calculate that it means in decreasing the output power and in our user documentation have a list of the max allowed transmit output power for different specified antennas? Thanks for your help! Regards Anders This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for computer viruses. ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for computer viruses. This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for computer viruses. ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for computer viruses. This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Scott Douglas [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
