The value of amateur radio is without question.
Take a look at http://www.gobpl.com/emcomms.html to see just how amateur radio
contributes.
Ed Hare, W1RFI
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rfi-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rfi-bounces@contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of dgsvetan@rockwellcollins.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 12:12 PM
> To: kd4e@arrl.net; rfi@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RFI] RFI & FCC
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> Doc and All,
>
> Just a couple of quick comments:
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> 1. Many garage door openers operate around 315 MHz, as do the remote
> lock/unlock systems for vehicles. That frequency is also in
> the military
> comm band.
>
> 2. The garage door opener issue is not new. There was a
> well-documented
> event several years ago in the San Diego area in which dozens
> of garage
> doors started opening when the fleet came home to port. The
> newer units
> with their rolling security codes have somewhat reduced that
> problem. As
> for the hapless homeowners in Florida, well, gee, they'll
> have to figure
> out how to QSY their units to either 433.91 MHz (gasp!) or
> the 915 MHz ISM
> band (where they belong). I wonder if any of them will file
> suit against
> the garage opener vendors AND the FCC to compensate for their
> loss of use
> and security.
>
> Doc, as for your comments about 9/11, I sent an e-mail to the
> editor of
> 2-way industry trade rag shortly after 9/11. His magazine
> had been crowing
> over the fact that Motorola worked non-stop in loading 72
> semis with comm
> gear to ship to NYC after the disaster, and that it took
> nearly a week to
> accomplish that task. I asked him who he thought might have
> kept the comms
> going for that week while all of that effort was being made
> by Moto. I
> accompanied my message with an excerpt from the ARRL Bulletin that
> summarized the work done by hams in those days immediately
> following the
> attack. I also reminded him that some of those hams helping
> out could well
> be readers of his magazine. He actually did print my letter
> and thanked me
> for the submittal.
>
> 73, Dale
> WA9ENA
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> doc
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> <kd4e@arrl.net> To:
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> rfi-bounces@conte Subject:
> [RFI] Re: [TenTec] BPL, RFI & FCC
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> 05/20/2004 10:36
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> AM
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> Please respond to
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> kd4e
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> NOTE: I think this discussion should be moved to the more appropriate
> rfi@contesting.com list and now invite folks to follow it there.
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> Since the political hacks on the 911 Commission have opened the
> doors to all manner of ridiculous nonsense in their headlong
> rush to self-aggrandize and to mount partisan political attacks
> why should not Amateur Radio demand our "15 minutes of fame"?
>
> Someone from the ARRL should insist on an opportunity to
> describe the many ways that Amateur Radio fills-the-gap in
> critical emergency communications, during 911 and thousands
> of other crises and disasters.
>
> The 911 Commission hacks have asked why there were communications
> failures, some organizational, some technological. Someone
> from the ARRL could readily address the common failures of
> public service communications in disasters and why and how
> Amateur Radio is the best qualified resource to fill-the-gap.
>
> Perhaps someone in the communications bureaucracy will catch
> a clue and think before promulgating foolish and short-sighted
> regs? And maybe public service decisionmakers will become a
> little more discerning when listening to the salesmen from
> Motorola, et al, and ask harder questions about reliability,
> redundancy, and inter-agency compatibility?
>
> I have a dream ... ;-) doc
>
>
> Cliff KD4GT wrote:
> > 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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> Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e
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