Jack,
With all due respect.... We don't need engineers to know what we'd like the
rules to be like! WISPA is here to serve the interests of the wisp
community. The manufacturers can look after themselves.
marlon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Unger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] FCC requests comment on smaller dishes for 11 GHz
Dylan,
It would be good to know the minimum required dish size now and the
changes that FiberTower is proposing before deciding what to do or say.
I'm not sure this dish-size issue would impact any WISPs so we may want to
ask ourselves if there are more important issues that we need to be
focusing on, given the limited time and resources that we have.
I think this is an issue that the licensed microwave vendors will probably
deal with adequately, without harming our interests. When we decide to
purchase a licensed 11 GHz link, we'd be buying it from them anyway.
Finally, WISPA dosn't have an engineering staff that can adequately
analyze the technical implications and prepare an informed technical
responese to submit to the FCC.
jack
Dylan Oliver wrote:
I recall some past discussion bemoaning the large dish sizes required for
licensed links .. I just found this in the latest "Rural Spectrum
Scanner"
from Bennett Law (http://www.bennetlaw.com/rss.php?vol=13&issue=12).
Should
WISPA endorse this? I'm not familiar with the details of 11 GHz
regulation.
*FCC Seeks Comment on the Use of Smaller Antennas in the 11 GHz Band*
The FCC has released a *Public Notice* announcing that it has adopted a
*Notice
of Proposed Rulemaking* seeking comment on whether to permit the
installation of smaller antennas by Fixed Service (FS) operators in the
10.7-11.7 GHz band. The FCC initiated the rulemaking pursuant to a
Petition
for Rulemaking filed by FiberTower, Inc., a wireless backhaul provider,
proposing to change the technical parameters that would permit the use of
smaller FS antennas with reduced mainbeam gain, increased beamwidth, and
modified sidelobe suppression in the 11 GHz band. The FCC seeks comment
on
whether FiberTower, Inc.'s proposals would serve the public interest by
facilitating the efficient use of the 11 GHz band while protecting other
users in the band from interference due to the use of smaller antennas.
The
pleading cycle has not yet been established.
Best,
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