Ok...  so back to original dilemma...

I take a XR5, the precise antenna they certified with this radio card, a 
RB411 and hook it all up and use it myself within FCC RF guidelines.

Criminal or law abiding citizen...

Scott Carullo
Brevard Wireless
321-205-1100 x102

-------- Original Message --------
> From: "Jack Unger" <jun...@ask-wi.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 3:47 PM
> To: "e...@wisp-router.com" <e...@wisp-router.com>, "WISPA General List" 
<wireless@wispa.org>
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik FCC
> 
> My view is that once certified with a specific antenna then a system is 
> legal with any antenna of similar type (panel, yagi, etc.) of equal of 
> lesser gain. Anybody can make the decision to substitute a similar type 
> but lower gain antenna. I ran this by the FCC last year and they 
> confirmed it. Again, the original system must have already been 
certified
> 
> Eje Gustafsson wrote:
> > Only the manufacturer listed on the certificate can make that decision. 
The
> > rules states that antenna of similar type in same or lower gain is 
certified
> > but it's only the manufacturer that can make that decision what is
> > considered similar type and there for approved to use with the unit. 
> >
> > This is at least the feedback I gotten from the FCC testing lab I been
> > working with on getting radios certified. But if the radio manufacturer 
say
> > it's ok to use a similar antenna by a different manufacturer but not 
higher
> > gain then what was tested the it's ok. Of course any antenna that is 
actual
> > listed on the certificate will always be approved as long it's the 
same
> > model. 
> >
> > / Eje
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] 
On
> > Behalf Of Mike Hammett
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:23 PM
> > To: sc...@brevardwireless.com; WISPA General List
> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik FCC
> >
> > That was some ruling passed a few years ago that really freed the 
markets 
> > up.  Certify with the largest panel, omni, parabolic dish, etc. you can 
get 
> > to pass and anything in those groups is fair game.
> >
> >
> > -----
> > Mike Hammett
> > Intelligent Computing Solutions
> > http://www.ics-il.com
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "Scott Carullo" <sc...@brevardwireless.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:24 PM
> > To: "Matt Liotta" <mlio...@r337.com>; <wireless@wispa.org>
> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik FCC
> >
> >   
> >> I've been told personally by an FCC testing lab that I can take a XR5 

> >> which
> >> has been tested with say a 23db panel antenna (with FCC) and use the 
same
> >> gain antenna or less for myself and would not have to have it 
certified
> >> again...  They told me not to get it tested because I didn't need to
> >> because Ubiquity already part certified it on that type antenna.
> >>
> >> If this is an argument we will never resolve I can live with that, but 
I 
> >> am
> >> fairly sure with the resources on this list we can come to a final
> >> conclusion based on facts and I think we should.
> >>
> >> Scott Carullo
> >> Brevard Wireless
> >> 321-205-1100 x102
> >>
> >> -------- Original Message --------
> >>     
> >>> From: "Matt Liotta" <mlio...@r337.com>
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:52 PM
> >>> To: "sc...@brevardwireless.com" <sc...@brevardwireless.com>, "WISPA
> >>>       
> >> General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
> >>     
> >>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik FCC
> >>>
> >>> On May 12, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Scott Carullo wrote:
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>>> Eje Gustafsson says this is not the case or elsewhen I buy a 
minipci
> >>>> wireless card for my laptop it would be illegal...
> >>>>
> >>>>         
> >>> This has been discussed at length. No matter how many times someone
> >>> makes the laptop argument it doesn't change the fact that the FCC
> >>> disagrees with that argument. Now someone could pay an attorney to
> >>> argue with the FCC and get them to clarify the situation. Until that
> >>> time the system certification requirement stands.
> >>>
> >>> -Matt
> >>>       
> >
> 
> -- 
> Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc.
> Author - "Deploying License-Free Wireless WANs"
> Serving the Broadband Wireless Industry Since 1993
> www.ask-wi.com  818-227-4220  jun...@ask-wi.com
> 
> "Email spam is just the latest way of asking
> for "Forgiveness" instead of asking for "Permission". 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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