Jim, it really is, I think, that the device was designed for use in Iraq by the military, and ReconRobotics does not want to change it; it was better for them to leave it as it is and sell it that way domestically. They deny this, but I am quite certain that it is just a matter of selling an existing product without change. A redesign would be expensive for them. 73, Chris W3KD Christopher D. Imlay Booth, Freret, Imlay & Tepper. P.C. 14356 Cape May Road Silver Spring, Maryland 20904-6011 (301) 384-5525 telephone (301) 384-6384 facsimile W3KD@ARRL.ORG -----Original Message----- From: James F. Boehner MD <jboehner01@yahoo.com> To: 'Chris Imlay' <w3kd@aol.com>; 'arrl-odv' <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> Cc: ehare@arrl.org Sent: Sat, Oct 23, 2010 12:33 pm Subject: ReconRobotics Equipment Authorization. I truly wonder why ReconRobotics wants to continue on this fight. I would assume that the unit uses a single chip as a data transceiver. I do not have detailed technical expertise, but it appears that there are chips available for 315, 418, 869 and 916 MHz. That might be an oversimplification of the problem, but to change out one chip to get us off their backs…..?? '73 de JIM N2ZZ ARRL Vice Director Roanoke Division ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio™ From: Chris Imlay [mailto:w3kd@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 4:00 PM To: arrl-odv Cc: ehare@arrl.org Subject: [Bulk] [arrl-odv:19442] ReconRobotics Equipment Authorization. Greetings. After review and approval by the Executive Committee, and as introduced in a memo to you about a week or so ago on this subject, we have today filed a letter with the FCC Laboratory, a copy of which is attached. This letter is in response to a strident opposition that ReconRobotics filed on October 8 to our October 4 letter asking FCC to revoke or withdraw the grant of equipment authorization for the ReconRobotics 70 cm robot video transmitter. I believe that this completes the pleading cycle on this matter. However, further strategies and tactics on this issue are an agenda item for the Executive Committee at this weekend's meeting in St. Louis. Also, there was yesterday a Wall Street Journal article about this device, which of course mentioned nothing about the regulatory problems it has raised. The article indicates that there are about 1200 of these devices sold. Contrast that with the 85 applications now on file for this device and you can see that we have a major problem on our hands. Let me know any questions you have about this. Thanks again to Ed Hare for his very valuable contributions to this, and to the Executive Committee for really short fuse review and comments. 73, Chris W3KD Christopher D. Imlay Booth, Freret, Imlay & Tepper. P.C. 14356 Cape May Road Silver Spring, Maryland 20904-6011 (301) 384-5525 telephone (301) 384-6384 facsimile W3KD@ARRL.ORG