At 03:26 PM 10/27/2006, Jon Maguire wrote: >Tim, > Do you know which regulation prohibits scanning of Amateur >frequencies? Thank you.
There's a fairly lengthy back and forth about a month ago for the details. The short answer is a) receivers that scan must have "equipment authorization" or Part 15 testing (to *prove* that they don't scan the cell bands) and a pile o' paper work b) The SDR-1000 is neither equipment authorized, nor a Part 15 device. c) the latter is a "good thing", because in order to meet the requirements for either of those two, you can't have user changeable software which might be modified to make them not meet the requirements. So.. no regulation prohibits scanning Amateur frequencies. It all revolves around the fact that if you scan, you have to *prove* you can't scan cell phones. Bear in mind a lot of this is in the eye of the FCC regulator. I could conceivably set my HP 8564 spectrum analyzer at work as a scanner (it scans, it has an audio FM demodulator), but it has neither FCC equipment authorization nor Part 15 certification. It fits in the "laboratory equipment" exception, and since they'll set you back $50K, it's not exactly a consumer item, so it hasn't attracted FCC attention. James Lux, P.E. Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group Flight Communications Systems Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 tel: (818)354-2075 fax: (818)393-6875 _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
