Anders, From personal experience, I believe SAR is the currently the primary reason for this restriction. Unless the device is an access point this will be your primary concern. What I've found works well is to do a new application for equipment authorization (new FCC ID) for the combined device, and re-submit the RF reports for each individual transmitter to avoid repeating a lot of testing. Note that you will likely have to upload the reports to the FCC again (they won't go pull them from their website/database - you have to supply them again).
I think the other option is to file permissive changes for the modules you want to place in the end product. This gets messy fast (particularly if you use the same modules across a few products, or if your company doesn't 'own' the original FCC ID's), so I'd recommend a single new FCC ID. Best Regards, -David On 1/8/08, Anders Svensson B <[email protected]> wrote: Dear experts, I have found that the FCC grants (FCC part 15) for WLAN modules and GSM modules have a restriction that says that they must not be co-located with other antenna or transmitter. In our coming product we have two modules which is co-located, how do we solve this problem? Our thoughts right now is to use the modules FCC grants and do a FCC Self Declaration for the transmitting part for our units ( i.e. no own FCC id for our product). For my understanding: Why do the modules FCC grants have this restrictions? Can the manufacturer update the FCC grants without this restrictions and that are needed for that? Have we any more solutions to solve this? Any inputs is very much appreciated Thanks 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/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
