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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION: TRANSMITTER RULES
AMENDED
The Commission has amended its rules to eliminate the required annual measurement of
transmitter power, frequency and modulation, and to specify transmitter power in terms
of output power for licensees in the Public Safety, Industrial, and Land Transportation
Radio Services.
The action was the result of a rulemaking procedure initiated October 29, 1976 on request
of HT & B Electronics.
Under the rules, which amend Part 89, 91, and 93, licensees will continue to be required
to operate their transmitters within the specified technical parameters.
For the sake of convenience and simplicity of transmitter power measurement, the FCC
specified that in the future, transmitter output power, rather than the direct current input
power to the final radio frequency stage, be the standard parameter used to indicate
transmitter power. The FCC defined transmitter output power as that power measured at
the transmitter output terminals when connected to a load of the impedance
recommended by the equipment manufacturer.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION; RADAR UNIT LICENSING
AMENDED (PART 90)
The Commission has eliminated a requirement for local governmental entities licensed in
the Public Safety Radio Services to obtain a separate authorization for radar speed
detection devices.
This change will reduce paperwork for the Commission's licensing staff and for police
and other local government units, which will no longer have to apply for new radar
authorizations or modify or renew existing licenses and may operate speed detection
devices as part of their base/mobile communications Systems.
To provide the Commission with a record of such units in use, licensees will be required
to list the number of speed detection units and the frequencies on which they operate at
the time of renewal of their land mobile authorizations. Ordinarily, this would be once
every five years and would not be a significant addition to the renewal process, the
Commission noted.
This action became effective February 1, 1983.
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