On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:20:34 +0000, Julian Bond wrote:
>One thing that irritates me about the rules as they are at the >moment is >that they have seemed to result in almost all the low end consumer >grade >gear having hardwired antennas with no sockets. Rules have nothing to do with this, it is the cost. A number of past low end "consumer" cards had external connectors, two that come to mind are the Proxim Symphony and the old Lucent ISA wavelan board's. However, as costs descended under $100, that $1 connector became more and more of a cost cutting target. >Going all the way back to the device that started this thread, the >Cantenna. There's never been any suggestion that it is badly made or >that it would cause interference. It may be illegal to sell in the >USA, >but would the law be keeping a perfectly good product off the market? Whoever is saying it is illegal to sell in the U.S. is mistaken. By itself, it is does not even fall under the FCC rules. -Jeff -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
