On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:40:14 -0500, Rick Smith wrote > Anyone understand the full process of getting something certified at > the FCC ?
No, but what I do know, is that it's several thousand dollars per test routine. Then, when you're done, the ONLY people who can sticker it, is the guy that bought the testing. Thus, if YOU do it, only YOU can assemble and sticker the stuff. Even I follow, EXACTLY what you did to get certified it isn't "legal" unless you're willing to stand behind the combination and sticker it as built by you. And EVERY change of any kind, if it's a new pigtail, new enclosure, new brand of antenna, new software.... All requires the whole process again. The FCC has, for other purposes, for both intentional and unintentional radiators, the ability to use DoC, or Declaration of Conformity, which is all about using known commodity parts, which are compliant, assembled, and is considered compliant because they recognize the parts are. > > I.e. I'd like to send in an RB112 with SR9, pigtail, LMR jumper, and > Pac Wireless Yagi to get certified as a combination. And, every > other combination I use. > > As I understand the rules, that would allow me to call that combination > legal, > as well as giving it a separate "product name" that I (or anyone I > subcontracted) > could resell it as, and then put this "sticker conscious" crap to silence. The rules are such that you're not really going to want to do this. You'll have to provide for the fact that people might try to change that CM9 for a WLM54AG and then it's illegal. Or they might need to use grids instead of a panel, or want a rootenna instead. Then there's the AP use, where EVERY combination has to be certified separately with each sector or omni, blah, blah. > > -- > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------- Mark Koskenmaki <> Neofast, Inc Broadband for the Walla Walla Valley and Blue Mountains 541-969-8200 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
