Mike,
Your offer to take this issue up with the FCC sounds like a *GREAT
*idea. If you do that, I think the information gained would be a very
valuable asset to the WISP community.
jack
Michael Erskine wrote:
Rick;
I think that your opinion is like mine, both informed and
experienced. I am perfectly comfortable with my opinion. And I did
not get into an argument, or even suggest one was somehow a good idea.
That said, let me also say this. If I don't have to have my router
boards certified without radios because they are not intentional
radiators, then when I add an FCC certified card to them I still don't
have to have them certified because they are still what they were.
If you tell me that every PC running a pci wireless card has to be
certified then I'll go with suggesting that a single board computer,
which is designed to be a router, should also be certified like all
those PC's otherwise, Rick, I think that both you and Dawn are incorrect.
Like I said, I think your opinion is like mine, both informed and
experienced. I don't think you, or I, or Dawn, have the last word in
this matter and I'd be happy to take the issue up with the FCC to get
a reading from them.
-m-
Smith, Rick wrote:
Hey Michael, Dawn's right. Don't get into an argument on all this here,
again.
In order to be a LABELLED CERTIFIED system, you take antennas, jumpers,
pigtails,
minipci cards (already separately cert'd most likely), RB's, ENCLOSURE,
POE device, and
anything else that's necessary to that system running, and they throw it
in a quiet room
and put it through its paces. If all falls within the proper bands for
operation as
you intended, you get the right to copy that device and slap pretty fcc
labels on it
and sell it as certified. If not, fix it, resubmit it and try again.
Repeat until
certified.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Michael Erskine
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:41 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] MT Babble
Dawn;
I think you are reading the letter of the law and not understanding
the reality. An RB153 is *NOT* an intentional radiator any more than
the PC
you mention is an intentional radiator. The cards which are placed
in the RB153 are intentional radiators just like the cards you put in
that PC you mention.
You are trying to make an Apples vs Oranges comparison out of an
Apples to Apples situation.
In other words you are incorrect in your reading of the rules.
-m-
Dawn DiPietro wrote:
Doug,
You have to certify the system as a whole INCLUDING THE ENCLOSURE
and the power supply and you cannot deviate from the configuration
that was certified.
This cannot be compared to a PC because that is a different
certification. PC's are unintentional radiators the systems in
question are intentional radiators.
Here is the link for more info on Modular Transmitters;
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-56A1.pdf
Here is a link to ADI and their certified system;
http://www.adiengineering.com/products/data/FCC-Whitepaper-R100.pdf
Regards,
Dawn DiPietro
Doug Ratcliffe wrote:
I found the FCC document regarding the modular certifications. If
Mikrotik
would submit (or someone submitted on their behalf, for them) their
boards
and representative power supplies, for FCC testing, and passed (no
peripheral cards, they are SEPARATELY tested for FCC compliance by
the
manufacturer, it's in this document), they would become PCs and
fall under
the 1996 FCC order listed below. If we used VIA, or any number of
already
modular certified FCC motherboards, it would all fall under this
order.
Cases are not FCC certified only motherboards, peripherals and power
supplies. So take a motherboard, power supply and a peripheral
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