[HATS] Fwd: Re: The ARRL Letter, Vol 20, No 7

[Ed Manuel (N5EM)]

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Ed, N5EM


>Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:02:06 -0600
>From: Kent Britain <wa5vjb@flash.net>
>Reply-To: wa5vjb@flash.net
>Organization: RDI Labs
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>To: Mehrdad Ghalebi <mghalebi@corecam.com>
>Cc: "cwinters@rli.net" <cwinters@rli.net>, David <d.mottram@verizon.net>,
>    David Robinson <ww2r@mgef.org>, David Thompson <dth854@airmail.net>,
>    Ed Manuel <n5em@flash.net>, Frank Perkins <frank@rfm.com>,
>    Greg McIntire <mcintire@flash.net>, Harvey Gilbert 
> <wb4coj@compuserve.com>,
>    John D Schroeder <jschk5zmj@juno.com>, Lilburn Smith <lilburn@mesh.net>,
>    "M. Joel Guerra" <mjguerra@ticnet.com>,
>    "Mulhall, John" <jmulhall@flash.net>
>Subject: Re: The ARRL Letter, Vol 20, No 7
>
>ARRL Letter Mailing List wrote:
> >
> > ***************
> > The ARRL Letter
> > Vol. 20, No. 7
> > February 16, 2001
> > ***************
> >
> > IN THIS EDITION:
> >
> > * +Antenna bills filed in two more states
> > * +Maine hams speak out against mobile hand-held devices bill
> > * +David Clark wants to continue round-the-world attempt
> > * +Ohio ham gets second FCC sanction
> > * +FCC queries wireless Internet provider about interference
> > * +K2DO appointed to chair PR committee
> > * +Susan Ness to leave FCC
> > *  Solar Update
> > *  IN BRIEF:
> >      This weekend on the radio
> >      Correction
> >      Texas lawmaker exempts hams in amended tower proposal
> >      Ham radio earthquake response winds down in India
> >      Code-free Technician ticket turns 10
> >      File all club station applications, except vanity, through a CSCSA
> >      Oscillating preamps generate rash of interference complaints
> >      HQ closed for Presidents' Day
> >
> > +Available on ARRL Audio News
>
> > ==>FCC QUERIES WIRELESS 'NET PROVIDER ABOUT INTERFERENCE TO HAMS
> >
> > The FCC has asked a wireless Internet system provider what it intends to do
> > to eliminate interference to Amateur Radio operations in the Dallas, Texas
> > area. The FCC wrote Darwin Networks Inc on February 8, 2001, regarding
> > complaints of harmful interference to Amateur TV on 2.4 GHz that's said to
> > be a result of the company's deployment of Part 15 devices in an apartment
> > complex.
> >
> > The FCC said Darwin Networks' Part 15 devices at the Post Townlake Village
> > property in Dallas apparently were installed in the apartment complex to
> > provide Internet service using wireless 2.4 GHz nodes from Cisco Inc.
> >
> > In the letter, FCC Special Counsel for Amateur Radio Enforcement Riley
> > Hollingsworth noted that operators of Part 15 devices are required to cease
> > operation should harmful interference occur to authorized (ie, licensed)
> > spectrum users. "Darwin Networks is obligated under Commission rules to
> > locate the source of interference caused by its equipment and make 
> necessary
> > corrections within a reasonable time," he said.
> >
> > According to Hollingsworth, Darwin had written the unidentified complainant
> > stating that its devices were operating under Part 18 Industrial, 
> Scientific
> > and Medical rules, which would not obligate the company to resolve amateur
> > complaints. But Hollingsworth said it appears that Darwin is not operating
> > Part 18 ISM devices but Part 15 devices that are not covered by the same
> > sort of exception.
> >
> > Hollingsworth gave Darwin Networks 10 days to reply.

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