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Graham
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Re: Are you FCC Legal
said by cmaenginsb  :I've also not actually had it clarified to me that you can take a piece of equipment certified under Part-15 and operate it under Part-97, I understand that a lot of people are doing this but I still haven't had things clarified for me. Yes, you can take any equipment, regardless of how it was originally certified and operate it under Part97 providing you follow the guidelines for Part97 in return. For instance: you cannot run a business (or profit in any way) from it, all communications must be either unencrypted or easily decrypted (WEP key in SSID?), and you must identify yourself by your call sign at the beginning, end, and every 10 minutes in a communication.
Quite a bit of that is pretty "fuzzy" as to what is 100% legal however. The FCC wording says you can't "obstruct the meaning of the communication." You also must obviously follow the frequency allocations for Part97. The bonus to that of course is that under Part97, you have precedence over every Part15 device. |
