Thanks Neil and Nate... please keep me posted
if you find anything out. I've got a pile of
paperwork to go through.
Northern California is now in EPLRS purgatory
skipp
> Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:51:25PM -0000, skipp025 wrote:
>
> Skipp,
>
> I'm working on a news report regarding EPLRS for one of the ham news
> outlets to pick up - and I'll post the script text and mailing list
> information here shortly. Probably send it off to Newsline in the next
> day or two, and see if Bill and gang want to carry it.
>
> It's been causing quite a large amount of interference here in Denver
> for about 3 years, and once we started noticing reports of problems
> coming in from other areas, we started looking into how widespread the
> problem might be.
>
> Generally, it's big. And the particular EPLRS systems we've been
> struggling with here covers the entire range of 430-450 MHz. (Confirmed
> by the Denver FCC Field Office.)
>
> The "fix" will be complex. The band is primary for the military for
> certain uses ("radiolocation"), but then if you dig further, later rules
> from NTIA very strongly specify that the hams be protected as if we
were
> primary.
>
> If your UHF repeater is RF line-of-sight to a military facility (there
> are allegedly 28 states either affected or soon to be affected, many of
> those with multiple installations) and you hear a very regular
> "ignition" type noise on weak signal users of your repeater, there's a
> very good chance it's EPLRS.
>
> I'll post more info, hopefully within a day or two.
>
> --
> Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - WY0X
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