At 11:01 PM 6/18/01 -0500, Dale Botkin wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, David VanHorn wrote:
>
> > Seriously, I'm not sure what the legal implications are, but I see no
> > literal problem in say, mounting the unmodified transmitter with it's
> > unmodified antenna, at the focus of a dish.. It does seem to part company
> > with the spirit of the law, but it seems in compliance with the word of the
> > law.. IANAL, YMMV, get a ham licence and play with the big boys :) You get
> > 1500W and gain antennas on both ends.
>
>...but lose the ability to send pretty much anything on TV over the link
>without violating FCC regs.
>
>Now, the question remains...  is this a problem, or a solution?  8-)

Depends on your point of view..
:)

I have one of these, constantly sending vid to a TV in the bedroom.
When I leave the office, I put the cable box on the local wx radar.
If I get a wake up call, then I snap on the TV and catch a weather update
while I get dressed.

I'm pretty sure the feds would consider the dish trick a violation, but I'm
not sure a court would agree with them.
It would be legal, for example, to put the device anywhere on your desk,
including that point where the foil insulation panels in the walls create a
corner reflector.. Now, have you modified the device?  No.... :)
What about putting it inside air conditioning ducts, that might be large
enough to function as waveguides at 2.4G?

I do wonder though, why these guys always want to modify the transmitter
for more power when often (especially in this case) making the receiver
more DEAF would probably be a better solution.   You can always do anything
you like to the receive side!


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