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From: richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: RF Remote Control (you need a license)
Message-ID: <3578@islenet.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 00:28:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 00:28:41 1987
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In article <8775@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > Digital emissions are not permitted in the Citizens Radio Service.
> 
> Furthermore, if I am not mistaken, one condition of no-license use of the
> Citizens Radio Service is that equipment be type-approved by the FCC.  In
> other words, you can't build your own.

That's not what I heard.  Forrest Mims had a pretty complete theory and
construction article in Modern Electronics a while back.  He mentioned
nothing about type-approval or the exclusion of digital emissions.

If I can find the article I'll fill in some more detail.  Does anyone
else have solid info?

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Richard Foulk		...{dual,vortex,ihnp4}!islenet!richard
Honolulu, Hawaii