I forget which specific mailing list had the first note about hams making sure to make comments on the official request to the FCC by a manufacturer who wanted a waiver to operate a 25W ERP unlicensed devices in operating rooms, for use in RFID tracking things used in surgeries, to make sure surgical items didn't end up inside the patients after surgeries.
Anyway, this news article hit the wires yesterday which has a much simpler "high tech" device I think the docs might be able to deal with. (Maybe -- these are docs and nurses who can't count... but whatever.) Bar codes to the rescue! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/09/0645213 The real article is linked from Slashdot, of course... or the URL of the article is: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071208171847.htm Another reason the variance shouldn't be given. If a bar code scanner can do the job... Well, anyway... just thought I'd share. The comment period ends December 15th. My comments are already in. Please feel free to reference the article as yet another reason not to allow the ERP increase, if you haven't sent in any comments yet. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-07-4606A1.pdf The KISS principal strikes again. If you had to add technology to something already complex, add SIMPLE technology that works. The RF technology is simply not needed if a bar code will do the same job. To file comments: Go to www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs Select "Submit a filing" Fill out the questionaire -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
