Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:31:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless Laptop NICs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007051328150.13205-100000@dt052n3e.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007050947010.7019-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Rick Hamell wrote:
>
> > > At this point my only other option is Packet Radio, but I'd
> > > need to get a ham licence for that unless I can figure out how to run it
> > > in the citizen bands. :) Has anybody done this?
> >
> > If you mean the CB radio bands, that would be a violoation of their
> > parameters. There's lots of hams doing packet radio with freebsd though,
> > just check the archives.
>
> Well, by Citizen bands I meant 900Mhz, and the 2.3ghz (?) range,
> which can both be broadcast in without a licence.
There are no longer any radio frequency bands that you can
broadcast in without a license. The FCC closed all those holes a long time
ago, mostly due to the needs of cell phone/PDA/etc. users. It was all the
hams could do to maintain a slice of their once palatial band, while the
commercial enterprises moved in to capitalize on techniques we developed
for a band that was considered so worthless that there actually _did_ used
to be chunks of it that no one even wanted to claim for licensing
purposes. C'est la vie.
Doug
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