<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">As a retired systems engineer I should ask for a better understanding of what you are planning or pursuing. Not sure you are trying to improve range or get higher bandwidth or ??? Trying to do a different architecture than APRS? Experimenting? Integrating into some aspect of the existing APRS effort?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I believe unless you are going to roll your own from ground up… most of the LoRa modules are Part 15<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are thousands of articles in just a quick search using keywords LoRa + GPS</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/lora-aprs/LoRa_APRS_Tracker" class="">https://github.com/lora-aprs/LoRa_APRS_Tracker</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many LoRa projects on Hackaday</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://hackaday.com/2020/03/21/high-power-lora-and-tropospheric-reflection-experiments/" class="">https://hackaday.com/2020/03/21/high-power-lora-and-tropospheric-reflection-experiments/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://hackaday.io/project/176178/instructions" class="">https://hackaday.io/project/176178/instructions</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="diy-low-cost-lora-satellite-ground-stationhttps://www.instructables.com/LoRa-GPS-Tracker/" class="">https://hackaday.com/2022/07/07/diy-low-cost-lora-satellite-ground-station/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.instructables.com/LoRa-GPS-Tracker/" class="">https://www.instructables.com/LoRa-GPS-Tracker/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.mokolora.com/all-you-need-to-know-about-lora-gps/" class="">https://www.mokolora.com/all-you-need-to-know-about-lora-gps/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/makermoekoe/LORA-GPS-Tracker" class="">https://github.com/makermoekoe/LORA-GPS-Tracker</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://lora-alliance.org/lora_products/oyster-battery-powered-gps-asset-tracker/" class="">https://lora-alliance.org/lora_products/oyster-battery-powered-gps-asset-tracker/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://dzone.com/articles/create-your-own-gps-tracker-using-lora" class="">https://dzone.com/articles/create-your-own-gps-tracker-using-lora</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/LoRa_GPS_Tracker_92014b9a.html" class="">LoRa_GPS_Tracker_92014b9a.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thousands more at many other sites…. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As to Part 97 rules….. another simple search using keywords pread Spectrum + Part 97</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/wireless/part97.html" class="">https://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/wireless/part97.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/wireless/pwr.html" class="">https://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/wireless/pwr.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://sss-mag.com/hamss.html" class="">http://sss-mag.com/hamss.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As HamNet uses spread spectrum extensively (and another thousand sites to work through)...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://broadband-hamnet.org" class="">http://broadband-hamnet.org</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://hotarc.org/mesh/" class="">https://hotarc.org/mesh/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In Europe: <a href="https://hamnet.eu/site/" class="">https://hamnet.eu/site/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Is there a document somewhere that walks through the spread spectrum<br class="">rules and documents if LoRa counts as SS under Part 97 and if so (or if<br class="">not) how it meets the rules? I really have no clue about this and would<br class="">like to read about it; I do remember somebody getting an STA but they<br class="">were using a 50W amp and the STA might have been for higher power?<br class=""><br class="">73 de n1dam<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></body></html>