Solandri wrote, at http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8141531&cid=50686089 > So based on a few vague comments, I managed to track down what the > issue is since neither this nor the previous/. article nor the sites > opposed to it (who seem to want to portray it as a Big Evil Government > conspiracy to take away your freedom) delve into it. > > Several airports useTerminal Doppler Weather Radar > [wikipedia.org] > for high-resolution maps of storms, rainfall, and most importantly > (for airports)microbursts > [wikipedia.org]. TDWR > operates at frequencies from 5.60 - 5.64 GHz. That's smack dab in the > middle of the5 GHz band used by 802.11a, n, and ac > [wikipedia.org]. > You'll notice use of those specific frequencies (channels 120, 124, > 128) are prohibited in the U.S. and Canada for this reason. > > Based on that, it sounds like the issue is that you can buy a 5 GHz > device off the shelf, then hack the firmware to re-enable those > frequencies. And the FCC is proposing this action because people have > been doing exactly that and the FCC has received reports from the > airports of such interference on those frequencies. If this is correct, it argues for various of our proposals and opens up some new questions... - is it a vendor that's scewed it up? - was there a bad DD-WRT athe solution is enforcement... anyone t any time? --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain