[Coco] Ham Radio

[John E. Malmberg]

john donaldson wrote:
> James,
>    Some of us are now using standard off the shelf wireless
> Internet Routers for this. The standard system has dip
> switchs that allow you to select the frequency the unit
> works on.

Do the switches also change the spreading codes to the few that the FCC 
restricts for Amateur Radio use?  Or has the FCC removed that 
restriction recently?

If not, then those devices can only be operated under their existing 
licensing restrictions.

That has always been the sticking point for modifying off the shelf 
spread spectrum stuff for Amateur Radio use.  The vendors of it lock 
their spreading codes in firmware, and were not willing to document how 
to change them.

The Amateur radio operators have primary service on the microwave band 
that the wireless routers operate on, the off the shelf wireless 
internet routers have secondary service on the same frequencies.

Secondary service means that they are not protected from interference 
from the primary service.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net
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