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From: cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris Sylvain)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Radio booster
Message-ID: <2689@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 8 May 88 02:28:54 GMT
References: <845@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <1019@bcd-dyn.UUCP>
Reply-To: cgs@umd5 (Chris Sylvain)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <1019@bcd-dyn.UUCP> sfq@bcd-dyn.UUCP (sfq) writes:
>> We are having a problem with the range of these units, so I replaced the
>> antenna with a longer, common wire which runs through several rooms.
>
>Replacing the antenna was a no-no.  ESPECIALLY replacing the antenna with
>one longer than 45 feet (actually, 15 meters).
>

The FCC gives you two choices:

(1) a fixed output power into an antenna of fixed size, or,

(2) any output power into an antenna of any length, but the field-strength
    allowable at a fixed distance is fixed.

The intent is to limit the ERP of the unlicensed transmitter.

Would you like me to dig up the specs. so I can cite chapter and verse ?
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