Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!umd5!cgs 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 Lines: 23 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 ? -- --==---==---==-- .. He chortled in his joy. .. ARPA: cgs@umd5.UMD.EDU BITNET: cgs%umd5@umd2 UUCP: ..!uunet!umd5.umd.edu!cgs