In the UK, visibility of the US of A rules etc. regarding transmitting are not clearly visible. We tend to rely on the people we are dealing with to tell us what the requirements are when we want to demonstrate equipment in the US of A. The problem is, some of the people we deal with have no idea what the rules are - it is not their field of expertise.
On the other hand, making direct contact with Authorities tends to complicate matter - they want to know exactly what we are going to do, long before we have made the plans! Our plans can be tailored to meet regulations (if we understand them) , making a plan before knowing and understanding what the regulations are usually means that we will upset one Government Department or another - and we do not want to have the demonstration stopped before it has started!! Of course we have access to the material on the web - FCC NTLA etc. We can see the US of A spectrum allocation but nothing seems to indicate what is the appropriate department to contact nor what the probability is for obtaining a license for equipment capability demonstrations in the frequency bands. It is also different when planning to demonstrate low volume equipment, especially when the product will be designed to order. The demonstration equipment might operate on an inappropriate frequency range (for the US of A) because the demonstration kit was designed for (say) Australia. If anyone has a good knowledge of who-owns-what of the spectrum and can point to definitive no-go spectrum areas, it would be very useful to me next time we start planning a demonstration. Regards Tim From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 21 November 2006 11:47 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: FCC Part 15 exemptions *** WARNING *** This mail has originated outside your organization, either from an external partner or the Global Internet. Keep this in mind if you answer this message. Virtually all military equipment is put out to "bid". As part of this process the military will write up a specification contract indicating equipment performance, function, operation, fail-pass, etc. I can almost assure you that if the military does not want DFS2 then that is what they will specify and get. Bob Heller 3M EMC Laboratory, 76-1-01 St. Paul, MN 55107-1208 Tel: 651- 778-6336 Fax: 651-778-6252 ========================= "Kevin Keegan" <kkeegan@sympatic o.ca> To Sent by: [email protected] [email protected] cc Subject 11/20/2006 01:34 RE: FCC Part 15 exemptions PM Let me clarify and detail the question a little more. "Can the military claim an exemption and purchase/deploy legacy U-NII2 band (5.25-5.35 GHz) wireless equipment which does not support DFS2 when the FCC requires that all UNII2 band equipment support DFS2 effective July 20, 2007." 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