[TenTec] BPL, RFI & FCC

[David Price]

Well I am glad somebody else pick up on this, I emailed this out to a few 
friends too, because I think is demostraits the FCC total lack of regard to 
there regularion in general.

The part that I got me going was,, I guess all the Garage door openers where 
going to have to be replaced. It seems to me, there seems a conflict of 
interest going on here. If they are one freq, and the doors are to, then 
they should not be causes these problem. I guess I am just to simple minded 
to understand what the FCC has in mind here.


>From: "Cliff KD4GT" <kd4gt at bellsouth.net>
>Reply-To: kd4gt at bellsouth.net, tentec at contesting.com
>To: <tentec at contesting.com>
>Subject: [TenTec] BPL, RFI & FCC
>Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:50:29 -0400
>
>Sometimes it takes a while before the actions of the FCC really come to
>light.
>
>An AP news story of 05/20/04 reports that a new Air Force radio system by
>Motorola is being tested at Elgin AFB in Florida. Homeowners in the
>surrounding area are reporting their garage door openers are no longer
>functioning. An FCC spokesperson said that 'IF' the Air Force is operating
>within its assigned frequencies then the users of the garage door openers
>will have to change theirs.
>
>Hmmm ... the FCC allowed these Part 15 devices to be produced even though
>they operate around the 435~436 MHz area. We hams have 420-440MHz on a
>'secondary' basis with the US federal government (military) being the
>primary user. The FCC is also willing to let the RFID Tag folks crank up 
>the
>power well beyond the Part 15 limits in this same area.
>
>How long is it going to be before the BPL or RFID starts interfering with
>critical communications and someone dies? Or maybe the FCC will just find a
>solution of dropping all those nifty new gizmos into the ham bands? After
>all, we are just 'amateurs' and don't really provide any beneficial return
>for the bandwidth given to us.
>
>Watching to see how this conflict between the Part 15 garage door openers
>and the US military plays out will, at the very least, be interesting.
>
>73 de KD4GT
>
>
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