Part-15 Nazis

[Mark Whittington]

Or, you know, maybe it's all of the routers that can have their power
pushed up beyond the legal limit for ISM and the design limits of that
particular hardware implementation that then splatter all over the band, or
operate in non-US allocated channels simply by flashing DDWRT on them.  It
could be something like that, couldn't it?

Nah, definitely the tin foil one.

Don't get me wrong -- I'm not in favor of locking down these things even
more than they currently are.  But I also don't think we need to
manufacture bogey men when there's a reasonable explanation sitting out in
the open.

There's always going to be some asshole who comes along and ruins things
for everyone else.  Another example that comes to mind are people selling
cheap Chinese wideband VHF/UHF FM handheld transcievers on various sites
around the net advertising them as 'walkie talkies'.  No mention of a
licensing requirement to use them, no mention of the fines that could come
from being caught.  Although with the reduced enforcement budget, maybe the
smart thing to do at this point is open my own webshop and start selling
them myself.  Why let some other asshole make all the money?

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Mike O'Dell <mo at ccr.org> wrote:

> Call me a conspiracy theorist, but....
>
> I think I know what's driving the "no user-servicable parts"
> assault on Part-15 products.
>
> The cellular carriers are intent on taking over the Part-15
> ISM spectrum at both 2.4 and 5.8 GHz and simply coopting it
> for their own use. To make that work, though, they have to
> have an efficient way to herd the riff-raff off of their
> newly-absconded spectrum. They could just do it, but they
> would have to suffer interference from all the existing kit.
> The next New Shiny Feature that gets most of everyone to buy
> a new Wifi Thing has the usable spectrum throttled back dramatically
> and pirate upgrades won't work. Presto! At that point, if you want
> anything approximating "working" cordless service, you gotta buy
> it from the Sellular Sloths at pennies per packet because there
> is no recourse.
>
> Why would the FCC do this?
> They've been deeeeeeeply in the carrier's pockets for decades now.
> Further, the current administration said they were going to
> convert 500MHz to new wireless service and they will happily count
> the Wifi bands toward that goal.
>
> So there's your Tin Hat Update for the week!
>
>    -mo
>
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