[SOC] Fw: [cq-l] FCC Issues First UWB Rules

[Rob Matherly]

>From the Get a shovel Department... (more after message)

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>From the CQ Newsroom:

FCC Issues First Rules on UWB
The FCC has issued its first Report and Order on Ultra-Wideband (UWB)
transmitters, deciding to permit the new technology even though promoters
could not show that their products could operate without causing harmful
interference to existing radio services. UWB transmitters are extreme
spread-spectrum devices whose signals' bandwidths are no less than 500 MHz.
The FCC is permitting the use of three types of UWB devices over three
broad frequency ranges: 30-960 MHz, 1990-10,600 MHz, and 22-29 GHz. These
ranges include several amateur bands. Uses include ground-penetrating
radar, surveillance devices, vehicular radar systems and short-range
wireless voice/data networks.
Typically, a UWB signal would sound like noise to an analog receiver and
the signal would be on any given frequency for only a fraction of a second,
but the FCC admitted that proponents
"have  not  provided  information  demonstrating  that  their  products
could  operate  without  causing  harmful  interference  to  (currently)
authorized  services (on the same frequencies).  Even  so," the Commission
contined, "we  are  not  persuaded  that
higher  emission  limits  for  UWB  operation  are  prudent  at  this
time." The FCC promised to revisit its regulations after six months to see
if changes were needed once UWB systems were actually on the air in
significant numbers.  The complete 118-page text of the FCC's Report and
Order may be found on the internet at
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-02-48A1.pdf> or
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-02-48A1.txt>.

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Don't you love the part about how they say they can't prove they won't
cause interferrence, yet see no reason to not allow them?

There's your tax dollars at work folks!

72/73/oo
Rob, W�JRM
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