Hi Bryan, I was just asking about the STA. I read it and the STA does not grant authority within 75 km of this area. I was not commenting on how it is can be a foot in the door with the potential for an STA to become permanent. When I asked what I was missing, it was about that the STA did not seem to impact this area because of the 75km restriction near government sites. Given a literal reading of the STA, I was not inferring all you put in your reply so you must have further information on those motives I missed —hence the question of what I was missing. Am I reading this STA wrong and it does allow operation within 75 miles of the sites like MacDill and Anclote? Regards, Tom NY4I
On Mar 27, 2020, at 10:48 PM, Bryan Fields <bryan@flscg.org> wrote:
On 3/27/20 6:22 PM, Tom Schaefer wrote:
I must be missing something. The letter states the STA does not authorize operation within 75 km of MacDill or Anclote.
No, what are you missing? This is an attack on the only non-ISM portion of our 5 ghz band. This has been an ongoing wet dream of WISPs and the wireless providers for some time. Even in the filing they refer to it as U-NII-4! Mimosa networks had a firmware update out within 4 hours of this being authorized. (you may recall Mimosa is run by a former ham using his former status as credibility with the commission.) There's nothing in here limiting interference to other licensed users other than Part 90.
This is the camel's nose under the tent, once they have these bands, they will not give them back. WISP's have a track record of non-compliance with the part 15 rules, and named providers in this STA have been cited by the FCC before. Understand WISP's combine an ignorance of RF and ignorance of networking into a profit driven enterprise. These are not entities compatible with sharing our spectrum.
As Machiavelli said, "Never waste the opportunity offered by a good crisis."
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