Re: The FCC
David Young <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.wireless.bay-area |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 10:03:06AM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > I wrote: > >I know the FCC has good intentions. But they're controlled by congress who > >routinely exchanges favours for campaign contributions > > Marc responded thusly: > >Dispel that fallacy: > >They've abandoned their mandate as protector of the spectrum. > > Okay, so what's our plan of action? > > I know, from my own experience, many of us can provide pretty good free > Internet access for our close neighbors. What would really help is being > allowed to boost the power, just a bit. > > Our limitation is 4 watts. Cell phone companies regulary blast at 1500 watts. A friend of mine runs a WISP that has pretty decent coverage throughout Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and he uses no more than 200mW radios and high-gain antennas to do it. What is it that you are trying to do that requires a 4W transmitter? Dave -- David Young OJC Technologies [email protected] Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933 _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless