With regards to the TAPR radio, I was simply correcting the misconceptions you had about it. It was not to be a kit, the schematics/firmware where not and have not to this day been released, and at least the first cut of it was going to be under part 97. It was a poor example to relate to 15.23. (although Dandin, TAPR's partner, did plan to adapt it to part 15... it never made it that far). Sure, it could have been a good example of 15.23, but I knew it for a fact it wasn't.
The key difference we have is certification vs. experimentation. They are two different and distinct things. My "mining your own silicon" was meant as a parady of the rules... how many times must you cut the baby in half to be a experimenter vs. someone wrongly using a certified piece of equipment? Your efforts (and others) to make certification alacarte, while well placed and much needed, have little or nothing to do with 15.23. This rule stands on its own. Quoting Tim Pozar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > P.S. What TAPR tried to do was done under part 97, not part 15. > > Your question was what would qualify for under 15.23. I pointed > at TAPR's attempt to build a radio as such an example of what could. > The point was, they were designing a building a SS radio that the > plans could be given out without "marketing or selling" and could > be built by folks going out and getting the right parts and software. > Hence it could be used under 97 or 15.23 (assuming it met the > spectral and power requirements of 15.247, and other sections as > required by 15.23). > > Tim > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
