2010/9/28 Hok Lee <hoklee2...@hotmail.com>: > As you may know, the FCC has finalized the ruling of the TV white space on > Sep. 23 > Quoted from: > http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/09/24/2124223/FCC-White-Space-Rules-Favor-Tech-Industry > > "They dropped the requirement that devices sense TV and wireless microphone > signals. Instead, they can geolocate and use an online database to learn > which white spaces are available in their area. " > > I checked some other related news. It seems FCC only requires the TV band > devices to update the channel-availability database on a daily basis. Does > that mean we can use the USRP+WBX to transmit over the TV band, and manually > check the availability of channels on an online data base, such as: > > http://spectrumbridge.com/products-services/whitespaces/showmywhitespace/single-location-search.aspx > > Hope someone can help answer this question. Thanks for your time! > > - Hok
I keep meaning to read more about the new whitespace regulations, but my guess is that we have to be careful with transmitting from a USRP, even under the new regulations. It's very likely that there is still some type certification required for transmitting in the whitespaces; so just sensing or knowing what channels are unoccupied is probably not enough. Anybody with actual legal knowledge have anything to say about this? Tom _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
