hgw@julia.math.ucla.edu (08/10/90)
I just received my DAK catalog (Summer 90) and on the back is a produce for transmitting television signal through the house. This is a short range (100 ft) transmitter which require a special receiver hooked up to your tv. It claims that "now you can LEGALLY broadcast through-the-air on the just released 910-918 MHz frequencies to any TV in your home or office." What is this just released 910-918 frequency? Is this something really new? While DAK offers many unique products, I've never found it to be of good quality. What I'd like to know is, does anybody know of any other product that will do the same thing. Is it true that these frequencies have just been released? If so, then I'd assume there will be other products coming to market. Has anybody actually tried this product? Thanks. Harold ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harold Wong (213) 825-9040 UCLA-Mathnet; 3915F MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555 ARPA: hgw@math.ucla.edu BITNET: hgw%math.ucla.edu@INTERBIT
markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier) (08/11/90)
In article <228@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU>, hgw@julia.math.ucla.edu writes: > > I just received my DAK catalog (Summer 90) and on the back is a produce > for transmitting television signal through the house. This is a short > range (100 ft) transmitter which require a special receiver hooked up to > your tv. It claims that "now you can LEGALLY broadcast through-the-air > on the just released 910-918 MHz frequencies to any TV in your home or > office." What is this just released 910-918 frequency? Is this > something really new? Yes, Title 47 Part 15 of the Code of Federal Regulations was revised in spring of '89. This is the section of FCC regulations that covers license free transmitters, among other things (the main one being the interference generated by personal computers). One thing to be aware of is that there are many users of the band. 1. Government Radar 2. Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (diathermy, microwave ovens) 3. Vehicle Location Systems (Car 54, where are you) 4. Ham Radio All of these have priority over a part 15 transmission. All of them can make you turn it off if you interfere with them. All of them can point to the fine print that says you have to accept any interference from their transmitters. markz@ssc.uucp markz@ssc.uucp