Just this week, We at WISPA were in conference with FCC staff about rule
changes seeking certified componentized self assembled systems and
certified installer status.
I did not hear any negativity from FCC, they were very open.
Tom DeReggi wrote:
John,
AMEN!! That pretty much puts it in perspective. Well said.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Scrivner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik as an Orinoco AP-1000 Replacment
There are problems with the current rules which if followed to the
letter of the law will lead to stifling innovation and backward
behavior by operators.
If Alvarion were to certify the Gabriel antenna with the B-100 then I
would no longer be a criminal. That makes sense? I don't think so.
Hey I guess I am nothing but a cowboy for using my $6K pair of
Alvarion B-100 radios with my $1K pair of (already installed and
aimed) Gabriel antennas? I guess there is no rationale for me to want
to use a pair of the best parabolic antennas I have ever seen with
installed radomes, machined mounting hardware, spun aluminum dish,
etc. which were already aimed in place and in use with my previous FCC
certified $10K EX-1 radio system. Using a better antenna already aimed
makes me a criminal.
I guess there are people here who do not think a company like Gabriel
or any other antenna manufacturer should be able to sell their
antennas unless they can talk a radio manufacturer like Alvarion or
Motorola or somebody else into including their antenna models in their
FCC certs? How is this fair?
Should Andrews or Pac Wireless have to beg the radio guys to use their
antennas in their certs to keep people from bashing their customers
for being renegade cowboys who shirk the law? Should makers of single
board computers be denied the right to sell their computing platforms
to WISPs who wish to build quality systems using their platform to
carry their favorite system management / routing / firewall /
bandwidth shaping / captive portal / AP software? Is that fair? How is
that any different than the FCC's recent allowance for any radio card
to be installed into any laptop or desktop platform? Why is it that
our SBCs running Linux are making us lawbreakers while the Dell
laptops running Windows, or Linux, can install any radio modules they
wish? Maybe we should start building APs out of old Del laptops since
they have more regulatory leniency than our computing platforms. They
get component level mix and match but the operators do not? Joe Blow
on the street can mix and match any radio with any computer with any
software but we cannot? What gives? We are only asking for what the PC
industry has been granted with one more revision and that is that
antennas be allowed to be mix and match also provided that EIRP and
OOB rules are not broken. Why is it that asking for these things makes
us criminals?
Is it right for makers of radio modules to be forced to spend millions
of dollars and wait for months of testing to allow their radio modules
to be placed into a variety of SBCs using hundreds of antenna
combinations with different software platforms or face being called a
bunch of law breaking thugs? Telling WISPs who like having thousands
of combinations to choose from that they are criminals and not giving
them the right to at least consider some form of rational lobbying for
better rules is NOT what we are about. We are NOT telling people to
break the law. We DO acknowledge that the law has problems and we want
to help fix those problems. If that makes us renegade cowboys then I
will wear the badge with pride.
There is merit to seeing some relaxation of the rules to either allow
for a certified component rule where radios, SBCs, software and
antennas can be assembled into systems which meet the rules or where
an operator's license allows people to self-certify a system that
meets the rules.
WISPA is NOT about seeing how to justify breaking the law. It is about
making sure the law does not break us.
John Scrivner
Marty Dougherty wrote:
Well once again I am going to make a statement- I have promised to be
"gone" from here- and I basically am- But I check in once in a while and
the AP1000 thread caught my eye- We have a lot of Ap2000's from YDI (30
or 40)- yes- all legal and purchased as a system from YDI. We have not
bought any other wifi and don't deploy it anymore and we don't mix and
match. As amps etc fail (or start leaking) we use our decommissioned
stock. Hopefully we will have all of them out of the network some day.
Anyhow, once again the thread goes back to the same subject- Operating
legally and the back and forth pissing about this.
I will tell you all that for SURE you will never get a large scale WISP
to join, support and contribute to WISPA because of this issue. WISPA
will always be a collection of renegades and small time operators who
are known in the industry as "do what you want/need rule breakers".
More and more of you want to operate with licensed spectrum. At the same
time, the Clearwires and Tower Streams are starting to use unlicensed as
well- What is the difference between them and the typical WISP? The
lines are blending even more now and it will be harder to explain to the
"industry and the FCC" why WISP's want to operate this way but the
"grown ups" can follow the rules?
Ask yourself why companies like
http://netbnr.net/loc.html?http://www.wcai.com/about_us.htm are not
joining and contributing to WISPA? I joined with the intention of
helping our industry but was almost immediately nailed with this whole
legal operator issue when I spoke up. Not many of us are willing to do
anything with WISPA until that position changes and it has to be at the
EXEC BOARD level. It's very obvious to all that the board does not want
to address the issue under the current rules.
Save all the usual BS attacks for someone else-they don't bother me and
they wont change a thing for WISPA and only serve to drive more
operators away....
Marty Dougherty
CEO
Roadstar Internet Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of JohnnyO
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:01 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik as an Orinoco AP-1000 Replacment
Ralph - I do believe Butch has a valid point here. If you are using
an "Orinoco" AP with your own DIY setup (sounds like you are) - I hardly
think you're legal. So why does the pot call the kettle black in this
or any
other instance ?
JohnnyO
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:03 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] Mikrotik as an Orinoco AP-1000 Replacment
Yep, and addition to being fully FCC Part 15 certified, I plugged it in
with a UL approved Power cord too :-P I don't need to justify legality
to allow someone to rationalize illegality. Sorry
As well known as you are to Mikrotik Butch (even I was about to hire you
for some MT Router work), why don't you encourage MT to make some
certified designs?
WISPA's wish for a do it yourself palette of devices to cobble together
and be certified is a pipe dream. The FCC doesn't work like that. If
they did, then Kenwood, Icom, Motorola, and the others would already
have do-it-yourself commercial radio kits. And you'd be able to go to
Radio Shack and buy a kit to build a microwave oven project.
How can we WISPS as an industry just blatantly defy the rules. Because
they are silly doesn't void them, nor does it give us the authorization
to ignore them. Does someone need to get fined and made an example of?
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Butch Evans
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 5:56 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: RE: [WISPA] Mikrotik as an Orinoco AP-1000 Replacment <snip> I
suppose you are using a complete certified system with the Orinoco AP?
(radio, pigtail, enclosure, cables, antenna) Just for all our comfort,
can you provide the FCC IDs on the gear you are using? <snip>
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