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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/7/2023 2:06 PM, Dana Myers wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:69cda369-ed0c-a89d-5204-ff1278587c6e@comcast.net">On
8/7/2023 5:33 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Receiving data on Part 15 LoRa and
retransmitting it over Part 97 seems
<br>
against Part 97. This is sort of funny; getting weather from
your
<br>
outside sensor via Part 15 to yoru console, and then over Part
15 WiFi
<br>
to your computer, and then periodically creating APRS packets
and
<br>
sending them over 2m is fine. There's no ban on transmitting
<br>
information that has traversed another service, but rather "No
station
<br>
shall retransmit programs or signals emanating from any type of
radio
<br>
station other than an amateur station" 97.113(c).
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IANAL and haven't read the CFR in a long time but I don't think
Part 15
<br>
emitters count as 'radio stations', at least in Part 97. Now I'll
have to look at definitions.
<br>
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47 CFR 15.5(b) :<br>
<blockquote>(b) Operation of an intentional, unintentional, or
incidental radiator is subject to the conditions that no harmful
interference is caused and that interference must be accepted that
may be caused by the operation of an authorized radio station, by
another intentional or unintentional radiator, by industrial,
scientific and medical (ISM) equipment, or by an incidental
radiator.<br>
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47 CFR 15.3(o):<br>
<blockquote>(o) Intentional radiator. A device that intentionally
generates and emits radio frequency energy by radiation or
induction.<br>
</blockquote>
Part 15 regulates intentional radiators - things that generate and
emanate radio energy<br>
are not radio *stations*. This non-interference rule distinguishes
clearly between Part 15<br>
radiators (such as a LoRaWAN tracker) and an "authorized radio
station" (such as an amateur<br>
radio station).<br>
<br>
A LoRaWAN tracker is no different than the remote temperature sensor
on a 915MHz Part 15<br>
weather station.<br>
<br>
73,<br>
Dana K6JQ<br>
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