ARLA/CLUSTER: ARRL alerta para as transmissões ilegais realizadas pelos drones nas bandas de amador

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

ARRL lodges Illegal Drone Transmitters complaint

In what it calls an 'extremely urgent complaint' to the FCC, ARRL has
targeted the interference potential of a series of audio/video
transmitters used on unmanned aircraft and marketed as Amateur Radio
equipment

In a January 10 letter to the FCC Spectrum Enforcement Division, ARRL
General Counsel Chris Imlay, W3KD, said the transmitters use
frequencies intended for navigational aids, air traffic control radar,
air route surveillance radars, and global positioning systems.

“This is, in ARRL’s view, a potentially very serious interference
problem, and it is respectfully requested that the products
referenced…be investigated and removed from the marketplace
immediately and that the importers be subjected to normal sanctions,”
ARRL’s letter said.

Some of the transmitters operate on frequencies between 1,010 and
1,280 MHz. “These video transmitters are being marketed ostensibly as
Amateur Radio equipment,” the League said, “but of the listed
frequencies on which the devices operate, only one, 1280 MHz, would be
within the Amateur Radio allocation at 1240-1300 MHz.” Even then, ARRL
said, operation there would conflict with a channel used for radio
location.

Read the full ARRL story at
http://www.arrl.org/news/illegal-drone-transmitters-could-interfere-with-air-traffic-control-arrl-complaint-asserts