Date: Thu, 27 Oct 94 04:30:02 PDT From: Advanced Amateur Radio Networking Group Errors-To: TCP-Group-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: TCP-Group@UCSD.Edu Precedence: List Subject: TCP-Group Digest V94 #240 To: tcp-group-digest TCP-Group Digest Thu, 27 Oct 94 Volume 94 : Issue 240 Today's Topics: ET Docket No. 94-32 News Release FCC ET Docket 94-124 - FYI Ham Radio Just FYI: FCC Rules changes for the VE program NOS and PCMCIA ether adaptors Send Replies or notes for publication to: . Subscription requests to . Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the TCP-Group Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 08:09:24 -0700 From: dewayne@tetherless.com (Dewayne Hendricks) Subject: ET Docket No. 94-32 News Release Report No. DC-2666 October 20, 1994 COMMISSION PROPOSES ALLOCATION OF SPECTRUM TRANSFERRED FROM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PRIVATE SECTOR (ET DOCKET NO. 94-32) The Commission today adopted a Notice of Proposed Rule Making that proposes to convert a large block of spectrum from Federal Government to commercial use. This spectrum would be made available for a variety of new services, creating new business opportunities and employment. The Commission has proposed a general allocation to the Fixed and Mobile services for 50 megahertz of spectrum identified by the Department of Commerce for transfer from Federal Government use to private sector use. The Commission said the proposed allocations will benefit the public by providing for the introduction of new services or the enhancement of existing services. In compliance with the provisioins of Title VI of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliatioin Act of 1993, the Department of Commerce released a report on Febuary 10, 1994, which made preliminary identification of 200 megahertz of spectrum for reallocation from Federal Government to private sector use, including 50 megahertz at 2390-2400 MHz, 2402-2417 MHz, and 4660-4685 MHz that is immediately available. The Reconciliation Act requires the Commission to adopt rules by February 10, 1995, to allocate the spectrum. The Commission stated that its prinipal objective when making spectrum allocation decisions is to ensure that the spectrum is put to its best use. The Commission proposed to achieve this goal by proposing a broad and general allocation to the Fixed and Mobile services for all three frequency bands. Such an approach, the Commission said, would allow for flexible use of these bands so that licenses would be able to offer a wide range of services employing a variety of technologies. The Commission requested comment on this approach. The Commission also believes that most of the services to be provided in this spectrum would likely meet the statutory criteria for auctions. Therefore, the Commission proposed to make licenses for this spectrum available through competitive bidding to the extent possible and practicable. The Commission seeks to create a competitive market structure that would promote reasonable prices for users and provide operators with incentives to develop and introduce innovative service features and technologies. The Commission requests comment on an appropriate licensing structure, including channel block size and geographic licensing areas. The Commission also proposed to allow technical flexibility in the provision of services. Specifically, the Commission proposed to allow users to choose the channelization, signal strength, modulation techniques and antenna characteristics in providing service, consistent with not causing interference to other users. Interference to operations in adjacent service areas would be controlled through power limits at the service area boundaries. Licensees would also be free to negotiate and develop agreements for interference conditions at the boundaries between their service areas. Comments are requested on these proposals. As an alternative to allocating this spectrum generally for Fixed and Mobile services, the Commission requested comment on the possible allocation of these bands for specific communications services. A number of suggestions were put forth by various commenters responding to the Notice of Inquiry (NOI) in this proceeding. There include an aeronautical audio/video service to provide real-time information and entertainment aboard aircraft, wireless local loop service, broadcast auxiliary services to support advanced television, low-power communications, and continued use of some of this spectrum by the amateur community. Action by the Commission October 20, 1994, by Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FCC 94-272). Chairman Hundt, Commissioners Quello, Barrett, Ness and Chong. News Media contact: Susan Sallet and Patricia A. Chew at (202) 418-0500. Office of Engineering and Technology contact: Steve Sharkey at (202) 653-8151. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dewayne Hendricks, WA8DZP ! CIS: 75210,10 AppleLink: D6547 Tetherless Access Ltd. ! Packet Radio: WA8DZP @ K3MC.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM 43730 Vista Del Mar ! AOL: HENDRICKS Fremont, CA 94539-3204 ! Internet: dewayne@tetherless.com Phone: (510) 659-0809 ! Fax: (510) 770-9854 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 14:16:13 -0700 From: dewayne@tetherless.com (Dewayne Hendricks) Subject: FCC ET Docket 94-124 - FYI --------------- Report No. DC-2667 ACTION IN DOCKET CASE October 20, 1994 NEW RULES PROPOSED TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF SPECTRUM AVAILABLE FOR COMMERCIAL USE (ET DOCKET 94-124) The Commission has proposed making available 18 GHz of spectrum in the "millimeter wave" frequency bands above 40 GHz for the introduction and development of new commercial technologies. This allocation would substantially increase the amount of spectrum space available for commercial uses and could shift the emphasis in this band from military to civilian applications. The same type of ttechnology that is being developed to guide "smart bombs" could soon be used to warn drivers that their car is too close to the one in front of them. The term millimeter wave frequency bands refers to the fact that the wavelength of radio signals on frequencies between 30 GHz and 300 GHz ranges from one and 10 millimeter waves. Until now, millimeter wave technology has been limited to military and scientific applications. The new proposals for commercial use of this spectrum will encourage its use to deliver commercial products and services. Making these new frequencies available will permit the development of short-range wireless radio systems that could have communications capacities approaching those now achievable only with coaxial and optical fiber cable. Such systems could support many short-range applications that require very high bandwidth or data transfer rates. Uses could include educational or medical applications such as remote wireless access to libraries or other informational databases; and non-communication uses such as automobile radar systems to avoid collisions. The proposed rules provide for the operation of new services on both licensed and unlicensed bases. The short range of signals in this frequency range minimizes the potential for interference, allowing the Commission to permit unlicensed operation for many uses. The radio spectrum above 40 GHz is generally unused because the technology to operate in this portion of the spectrum has been prohibitively expensive. In recent years, however, the U.S. Government has funded projects in millimeter wave technology for a number of military and scientific applications. The Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agancy has funded a nearly $600,000,000 program to decrease component costs for this technology. Given these advances, the Commission said, it now appears that millimeter wave technology can be used for commercial applications. The Commission is proposing to open a substantial portion of millimeter wave spectrum for use by new communications services and technologies. Almost all of the spectrum above 40 GHz is shared between government and non-government use. In cooperation with the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA), the Commission identified 12 frequency bands between 47 GHz and 153 GHz for potential use by new millimeter wave technologies. The Commission tentatively proposed to to make available 6.3 GHz of spectrum for licensed operation, 8.5 GHz of spectrum for general unlicensed devices, and 3.2 GHz of spectrum for vehicular radar systems. The bands are: 40.5-42.5 GHz; 47.2-48.2 GHz; 59.0-64.0 GHz; 71.0-72.0 GHz; 76.0-77.0 GHz; 84.0-85.0 GHz; 94.7-95.7 GHz; 103.0-104.0 GHz; 116.0-117.0 GHz; 122.0-123.0 GHz; 126.0-127.0 GHz; 139.0-140.0 GHz; and 152.0-153.0 Ghz. Action by the Commission October 20, 1994, by Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FCC 94-273). Chairman Hundt, Commissioners Quello, Barrett, Ness and Chong. News Media contacts: Audrey Spivack and Rosemary Kimball at (202) 418-0500 Office of Engineering and Technology contacts: Dr. Michael Marcus at (202) 653-8110, email: mmarcus@fcc.gov or David Wilson at (202) 653-8138, email: dwilson@fcc.gov. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dewayne Hendricks, WA8DZP ! CIS: 75210,10 AppleLink: D6547 Tetherless Access Ltd. ! Packet Radio: WA8DZP @ K3MC.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM 43730 Vista Del Mar ! AOL: HENDRICKS Fremont, CA 94539-3204 ! Internet: dewayne@tetherless.com Phone: (510) 659-0809 ! Fax: (510) 770-9854 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 05:32:35 GMT From: oppedahl@patents.com (Carl Oppedahl) Subject: Ham Radio In article <9410252114342659787@aol.com> StevenA868@aol.com writes: >Path: panix!aol.com!stevena868 >From: StevenA868@aol.com >Newsgroups: panix.mlist.tcp >Subject: Ham Radio >Date: 26 Oct 1994 02:30:27 -0400 >Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC >Lines: 2 >Sender: daemon@panix.com >Approved: news@panix.com >Message-ID: <9410252114342659787@aol.com> >NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com >request info >Stevena868@aol.com What kind of info do you want? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Oct 94 11:09:00 EDT From: "Battles, Brian, WS1O" Subject: Just FYI: FCC Rules changes for the VE program ---------- From: Jahnke, Bart, KB9NM To: 'arrl-ve-list' Subject: FCC Rules changes for the VE Program - E Date: Tuesday, October 25, 1994 17:47 The following was released yesterday (Oct 24) as an ARRL Bulletin: FCC LICENSING CHANGES The FCC today released a 7-page Order amending its amateur rules, effective December 20, 1994, to reflect what the Commission calls "nonsubstantive procedural changes": 1) To permit electronically filed data from VECs (paper applications will still be accepted); 2) To authorize operation as soon as the new license data appears in the amateur service licensee data base, rather than (as now) when the license document has been delivered (details of how the new licensee can determine his call sign will be announced later); 3) To add a new rules section, "Examinee Conduct," to emphasize that an examinee must comply with the instructions given by the administering VEs; 4) To treat "Technician Plus" as a license class; 5) And to provide for a "renewal short form," which the FCC says will be mailed to licensees in advance of their expiration date beginning sometime in 1995. Because of the nature of these rule amendments, there's no notice or comment period required by federal law. These changes do not take effect until December 20, 1994. In addition, a new FCC Form, specifically FCC Form 610-R--a license-renewal short form, will be used by the Commission's in sending license expiration notifications directly to licensees. Regarding renewals, the text of notice also stipulates, "The application must be submitted no more than 90 days before its expiration to: FCC...". Therefore, beginning December 20, 1994, no renewal application will be considered until the license has the last 3 months remaining of it's 10-year term. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 04:46:18 +1000 (EST) From: tcpgrp@cyanea.apana.org.au Subject: NOS and PCMCIA ether adaptors Does anyone have experience using PCMCIA type ethernet adaptors (eg in a laptop) with JNOS? What used to be my jnos machine is now operating FreeBSD as my internet machine and the laptop now needs to be my NOS machine. I am currently using a slip link but would like to get ethernet going again (for the speed!) Eg, are there any packet drivers for pcmcia or do they emulate NE2000 or whatever? Thanks in advance. -- Garry Hawgood vk4ke garry@cyanea.apana.org.au ------------------------------ End of TCP-Group Digest V94 #240 ******************************