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Yeah, whatever industry lobbyists are hitting them with tons of money need to just find their conscience - or prison, whatever works. I guess I am going to be
by ck2 11y ago
Yeah, whatever industry lobbyists are hitting them with tons of money need to just find their conscience - or prison, whatever works.
I guess I am going to be a criminal the day they tell me I cannot run openwrt.
- Spooky23 11y agoMy guess is they are getting lots of complaints from folks running into dopes doing stupid things with SDR that interfere with others. Looking at the noxious behavior of drone owners sets a few examples of the type of thing I'm referring to.
- ck2 11y agoThe quadcopter problem is easy to solve, jail time for repeat offenders. But they are now making laws to ensure the bulk of the population commits a few felonies each day, changing your phone software from stock, changing your router software from stock = prison? How exactly does that harm/help society?
- gopowerranger 11y agoIf you want to jail offenders then there has to be a law or regulation for that. This is that regulation. How does this harm society? Imagine your wifi router becoming useless cause your neighbor decides to modify his and boost his output which overpowers yours. Plus adding additional frequencies that render your wireless phone useless.
- kazinator 11y agoImagine (and be terrified of) your neighbor sneaking over at night and smothering you with a pillow. Let's ban pillows! Bonus: the ban will stop those vicious pillow fights.
- gopowerranger 11y agoYou are pretending such things I mention don't happen but they happened all the time before the FCC came into being and happened often during the CB craze. In fact, I still occasionally hear of such things. Imagine there were no regulations. Such things would be rampant as they were in the past.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoAll of the things you're worried about are already illegal. Pointing out that they were legal sometime in the past, and it sucked, is a non sequitur.
- kazinator 11y agoI've played with the transmitter power in my Wi-Fi router to get better coverage in a distant room. Thank goodnes for open source.
- Sanddancer 11y agoYes, and have you checked to see what the end result of the emissions are on the main harmonics. If you're overdriving your amplifier, there's a good chance the distortion harmonics are sending into the 7.3 ghz band and 12 ghz band, which are both used by satellites, and can cause interference due to the sensitivity of communications.. This is one of the many problems with these modifications, and why the FCC is making enforcement; driving circuitry outside of its range can and does cause problems more severe than annoying your neighbor by making their connections a bit worse.
- kazinator 11y ago> Yes, and have you checked to see what the end result of the emissions are on the main harmonics. Let me think, no. > If you're overdriving your amplifier, ... distortion harmonics RF amplifiers are not linear at any amplitude! RF is not audio.
- shkkmo 11y agoRight, make it illegal to operate your device in a way that causes interference. Don't make it illegal to modify your device and don't make it illegal to manufacture a device capable of being modified. There is a huge difference here.
- gopowerranger 11y agoYour idea is already in place. The regulations state you cannot cause interference but people still modify their devices to do so anyway.
- shkkmo 11y agoSo then we just need better enforcement, not new laws that impinge on our ability to control our own hardware.
- semi-extrinsic 11y agoI doubt it. Actually getting an SDR with transmit capabilities up and running takes a lot more time, effort and intelligence than launching a drone does.
- Zigurd 11y agoYet somehow those many complainers are silent in the rule-making comments.
- revelation 11y agoWhere the hell are all these SDRs with transmit capabilities and sufficient output power to annoy others? Because I would love not having to pay the 2000 bucks for an Ettus unit if they are apparently this widespread.