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.
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