FCC considers crackdown on bad wireless receivers(arstechnica.com)
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FCC considers crackdown on bad wireless receivers
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/fcc-considers-crackdown-on-bad-wireless-receivers-after-5g-altimeter-debacle/
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This might initially sound bad but my understanding is that they already do this for "part 15" devices. I assumed they did it for everyone and am a little surprised that, of all things, they weren't doing it for something critical like a flight altimeter. They'll likely be checking that the device continue to function as intended if exposed to radiation outside its band. They're probably not going to block your baofangs or scanners or HF receivers.
See also: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/35189/fcc-pa...
The FCC may have been the biggest barrier to human progress this century.
The FCC may have been the biggest barrier to human progress this century.
I'm not seeing how the FCC is the "biggest barrier to human progress" and your link (a basic description of Part 15) doesn't support that in the slightest.
There are valid arguments to be made that the FCC has been a poor custodian of spectrum but Part 15 isn't one.
There are valid arguments to be made that the FCC has been a poor custodian of spectrum but Part 15 isn't one.
For those who are not terribly familiar with radio frequencies this is analogous to using Security By Obscurity. The designer just decided to gamble that nothing would happen to transmit in a band that the system would catch in a pattern that the receiver would interpret as a valid signal.