Re: [Openbts-discuss] just FYI - GSM test license for Germany

[Ralph A. S. d. <ra...@sc...>]

I can agree to this in some way; but it is not very difficult at all, everyone can find the form on the website of the authority, so I really do not see any risk in publishing this. Also it is far from being difficult to fill in the few necessary fields, all necessary data can be wikigoogled. Somehow our authority made a 180 degree turn during the last 20 years or so. In 1986 the stricter laws were the main reason that I took the exam and got my ham radio license. In these days possession of a radio was similar to possession of a gun, up to 5 years in jail, and even after I got my call sign, as a 16 year old guy with a modern 2m Icom handheld radio the police were my best friends – I got frisked all the time :( Today nobody cares what you are doing as long as you are not causing complains or do not cause any harm. 

 

Today we have so great possibilities, and nobody but some freaks like us uses them. The iPhone and the Playstation seem to be the desirable things. At the moment I can see that SDR technology brings radio technology closer to the computer guys, the RTL2832 DVB-T sticks started a fire in the community of hams and enthusiasts...in fact it made me buying an USRP1.

 

And my last aspect, of course spectrum has to be regulated somehow, and there are users that need special protection, but overall it is given by nature, and I do not like that RF spectrum gets completely commercialized after being successfully freed from overregulation.

 

With consideration of all pros and cons, I mostly like the way it goes here in Europe.

 

Ralph.

 

P.S.: Hah, it felt just good yesterday evening, removing the 50 ohms attenuator and putting an small antenna onto my duplexer and legally blasting out a fully 0.1W GSM signal :-) Coverage is a little bit better than a 1.9 GHz DECT phone, seems to work in the whole 4-story building and at least 100 m up and down the streets until walking around the next corner. A bit like expected, as DECT uses 0.25W out, but higher bandwidth and bit rate...

 

From: David Burgess [mailto:da...@ra...] 
Sent: Monday, 18 March, 2013 20:08
To: Andrew Back
Cc: Alexander Chemeris; ope...@li...
Subject: Re: [Openbts-discuss] just FYI - GSM test license for Germany

 

I agree. This is why we never published a "how to" guide on applying to the FCC for experimental licenses.

-- David

 

David A. Burgess

CEO, Range Networks, Inc.

 

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Am 18.03.2013 um 09:35 schrieb Andrew Back <an...@ca...>:

On 18 March 2013 16:08, Alexander Chemeris <ale...@gm...> wrote:



Ralph,

 

Thank you for sharing this. It would be a great help for other people

if you document this at the wiki with all relevant files attached

(like application, etc).


I may be being paranoid about this, but I worry that if regulatory
bodies start receiving "cut and paste applications" they may review
their policies and become a lot more strict. Not forgetting that, in
the UK at least, network operator consent is required before such a
licence is granted.

I also think that if people can't work out what to enter into their
application forms they shouldn't be given permission to operate a
configurable transmitter in PLMN bands.

Cheers,

Andrew

-- 
Andrew Back
http://carrierdetect.com

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