ARLA/CLUSTER: Americanos querem importar lineares de 1,3 kW que ultrapassam a limitação de ganhos superiores a 15dB.

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

FCC seeks comments on waiver request from Expert Linears

The FCC is inviting comments on a June 11 request from Expert
LinearsAmerica LLC to waive Part 97.317(a)(2) of the Amateur Service
rules to permit it to import, market, and use its model 1.3K FA
amplifier in the US.

The Texas company is seeking the waiver pending resolution of its
earlier Petition for Rule Making (RM-11767), which called on the
Commission to eliminate the 15 dB gain limitation on Amateur Radio
amplifiers altogether. Expert said the version of the model 1.3K FA
amplifier it now imports has been modified to comply with current
rules.

"Expert seeks a waiver in order to be able to import the unmodified
version of the Model 1.3K FA, which is capable of considerably more
than 15 dB amplification," the FCC explained in a July 29 Public
Notice.

"Expert argues that the public interest would be served by permitting
use of a higher-powered amplifier, because it would improve the
communications capabilities of amateurs using portable, low-power
transmitters by enabling them to approach the maximum legal power
output."

Expert assured the FCC that its model 1.3K FA has proprietary software
to prevent it from transmitting in the 26-28 MHz band, so it cannot be
used in the Citizens Radio Service.

The Public Notice can be found on the web in PDF format at,
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0729/DA-16-864A1.pdf

On May 26, ARRL told the FCC that it "strongly supports" Expert's
petition seeking to eliminate the Amateur Service rule, spelled out in
Part 97.317(a)(2), that amateur amplifiers not be able to boost the RF
input signal by more than 15 dB.

Comments on Expert's waiver request are due by August 29, reply
comments by September 13.

ARRL