But it will trigger on civilian weather radar signals if they're hot 
enough.

Or if Trango TLink45's, it will trigger on someone sneezing in the vicinity.


Patrick Shoemaker
Vector Data Systems LLC
[email protected]
office: (301) 358-1690 x36
http://www.vectordatasystems.com


[email protected] wrote:
> The DFS signature is not set for domestic radar. It is for military only. 
> 
> -B-
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Gino Villarini" <[email protected]>
> 
> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:41:42 
> To: <[email protected]>; WISPA General List<[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] DFS Radar Question
> 
> 
> WE saw this recently here,
> 
> The FCC and FAA sent a crew of about 10 perrsons to hunt down some rogue
> emissions that were afecting the local FAA Weather Radar.  They were
> here for about 2 weeks.  
> 
> The local radar operated in 5610, had a rx opening from 5580 to 5640.
> The gain of the Weather antenna was 70db and the rx thershold -110, so
> imagine how a stray radio would interfere!
> 
> They had a field day with local wispa using non FCC DFS Aproved gear in
> the band!
> 
> They even got some stats on Canopy gear not trigerring correctly to the
> radar signature!
> 
> They were going to Motorola with the info gathered here
> 
> 
> Gino A. Villarini
> [email protected]
> Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
> tel  787.273.4143   fax   787.273.4145
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Scott Carullo
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:52 AM
> To: WISPA General List
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] DFS Radar Question
> 
> You don't think your active transmitter can affect their weather radar?
> 
> NOT
> 
> Just because they have their gain tuned such that they can't hear a
> reflection off a baseball in your area doesn't mean your signal won't
> come booming in for them :)
> 
> Mostly weather radar...   And - remember - its just not the news
> stations 
> in your area with radars // military installations, government
> establishments, airports, NOAA etc...  the list goes on.
> 
> Scott Carullo
> Brevard Wireless
> 321-205-1100 x102
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
>> From: "Kurt Fankhauser" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:46 AM
>> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] DFS Radar Question
>>
>> Is it military radar or weather radar that operates in these bands? If
> 
>> it
> is
>> weather then we are lucky around here, our county is smack dab in the
> middle
>> of the "out of range zone" for 3 different weather radars by about 60+
> miles
>> each. The National Weather Service is really interested in storm 
>> spotters
> in
>> this area because of the lack of radar coverage.
>>
>> Kurt Fankhauser
>> WAVELINC
>> P.O. Box 126
>> Bucyrus, OH 44820
>> 419-562-6405
>> www.wavelinc.com
>>  
>>  
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> On Behalf Of Tom DeReggi
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:13 AM
>> To: WISPA General List
>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] DFS Radar Question
>>
>> The only good answer to combat DFS is to use directional PTP antennas
> with 
>> good F/B ratios.
>>
>> I'd give 5.4G back to the FCC in a heartbeat, if they gave us 5.3Ghz 
>> back
> 
>> without DFS and low power requirements.
>>
>> If you ask me.... Either 5.3 radars or 5.4 radars should be forced to 
>> upgrade to the other band, and free up the other  :-)
>>
>> Tom DeReggi
>> RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
>> IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Adam Goodman" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>; "WISPA General List" 
> <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 4:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] DFS Radar Question
>>
>>
>> I had some trouble with radar (think it was radar) last year.
>> Interferences could be from many sources. It sa problem because you 
>> can't just go sit there for a couple of weeks with a spectrum analyzer
> 
>> listening for noise. It would be nice if there was a reasonably priced
> 
>> logger. Or with Internet connectivity. All this is probably a pipe 
>> dream as I have never seen anything with such functionality.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Scott Carullo 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Anyone know of a radio that can just listen passively and scan 
>>> through channels and report back on radar signals heard on what
> frequencies?
> That
>>> would be a great tool to have to scope out certain areas of interest
> to
>>> know ahead of time what radar DFS issues might be present...
>>>
>>> Scott Carullo
>>> Brevard Wireless
>>> 321-205-1100 x102
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>> From: "Blair Davis" <[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 4:30 PM
>>>> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
>>>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Gell Cell?
>>>>
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