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By
JohnChampa,*K80CL
HSMM
Communicating
Voice,
Video,
and
Data
withAmateur'
Radio
The
HinternetandopenHSMM
PlusExperimentson6
Meters
Thismonth'scolumnisguestauthored byPaulPescitelli,K4UJ,AssistantEmer gencyCoordinator,GwinnettCounty, GeorgiaARES.Paulisalsothe
ARRL
HSMMWorkingGroupProjectLeader fortheopenHSMMProject.Hemaybe reachedat:<dx.k-luj'iegmail.com>,
T
heterm"openHSMM"isderived fromthecombination
of
Open
S
our
cesoftwareandHigh
Speed
MultiMedia.OpenSourcesoftwarewas designedtomeetsome
of
thegoals
of
the
"Chairman
of
theARRLTechnologyTask ForceonHighSpeedMultimedia(HSMM) RadioNetworking;MoonWo
lf
Spring,249/ /tsellRoad,Howell,
M/4
8843-6458e-mail:<k8oc!@arrl.net>
ARRL'
sHigh
SpeedMultiMedia
(HSMM)
WorkingGroup
,chairedbyJohn
Champa
,
K80CL.
Theintent
of
theworkinggroupistoresearchandimple mentnewtechnologiesinhigh-speeddig italsignalingnetworks.
DesignCriterion
The
openHSMM-ap
de
sign
criterionisto
cr
eat
ea
wirele
s
s-access-point
appliance
that
contain
sfeaturesf
ound
in
wir
ele
ss
acce
ss
point
sthatarecom m
onplace
today
.
Why
re-inv
ent
thewheel?
Toda
y's
consumer
-grade
acce
ssp
oint
sl
acktwo
very
important
f
eatur
esthat
arenece
s
sary
to
cr
eat
e
flexible
wireless
network
s.First,thedeficiencyliesintheradios. Consumer-gradeaccesspointstradition- allyhavereliedonasingleradiotopro videconnectivity.Whileefficientintheir design,theycannotprovidethediverse connectivityoptionsthatmayberequired, especiallyinanunplannedenvironment suchasthosefoundduring
emer
gencycommunicationdeployments.Sometimes 802.11bworkswell,butitwouldbegood toprovidealternatives,suchas802.11aor 900-MHzWiFiforcreationofbackbones. ThisisoneareathatopenHSMMhopesto addressinthecomingmonths. Theseconddeficiencyisthelackoftrue networkingprotocols.Inordertocreatea scalablenetwork(wiredorwireless),it wouldbebeneficialtoprovideconfigura tionoptionssuchas
OSPF
(OpenShortestPathFirst).
OSPF
isatried-and-truerout ingprotocolthatbroadcastsitsroutesto
LeagueRequestsRuleChangetoEaseSpread
SpectrumOperation
Thefollowingisfromthe
ARRL
Letter:
TheARRLhasaskedtheFCCtom
odif
yoneofitsrulesgoverning spreadspectrum(SS)operationonamateurradiofrequencies.The LeaguehaspetitionedtheCommissiontodropallbutthefirstsentence of§97.311(d),whichnowrequirestheuseofautomaticpowercontrol (APC)forSSstationsrunningmorethanIW.The
ARRLr
equestwouldretainthe
100
WoverallpowerlimitationforSS. 'The
ef
fect
of
therulechangewouldbetoeliminateanautomatic powercontrolprovisionthathasprovenovertimetobeimpractical" int
erm
s
of
compliance,theLeaguesaidinitsPetitionforRuleMaking filedMarch13.
It
alsoconc
eded
thattheprovision-onetheLeague hadproposedandsupportedmorethan
10
yearsag
o-
wasunnecessarytoprotecttheoperationsofotherlicenseesandhad"unfortu natelyservedasanunintendedbuteffectivedet
err
enttospreadspec trumexperimentation"onhamradio. SincetheFCCf
ir
stapprovedtheuse
of
spreadspectrumtechniques foramateurradioin1985onbandsabove225MHzandatpowerlev elsupto
100
W,there'sbeenlimited
-but
neverwidesprea
d-ex
perimentalamateuroperation.
Mor
erecently.theFCChasmadetheSS ruleslessrestrictiveinresponsetoLeagueshowingsthattherules wereh
amp
eringSSexperimentationandthatinterferencehasnot proventobeanissue. TheARRLsaysitnowagreeswiththosewhoopposedtheauto maticpowercontrolprovisioninWTDocket97-12.concludedin 1999.Thosechangesnotonlyrelaxedrulesgoverningtheuseof spreadspectrumtechniquesbyradioamateurs.butopenedthed
oor
tothepossibility
of
internationalspreadspectrumcommunication.
"Now
sevenyearslater.itisapparentto
ARRL
thattherulesrequir ingAPCindeedhaveproventobedifficulttoimplement.unneces sary.andsomething
of
abarriertoSSexperimentation."the
ARRL
58.
COVHF
•
Spring
2006saidinitslatestrulemakingpetition."Section97.311(d)canbegreat lysimplifiedwithoutincreasingtherisk
of
intra-serviceorinter-ser viceharmfulint
erf
erence."TheARRLsaidkeepingthema
ximumpowe
rat
100
Wlimitsthe powerspectraldensityofanSSemission,contributingtoc
omp
atibilitybetweenamat
eur
radioSSandnarrowbandmodesinthesame allocations.Therulesalreadyinplacemakespreadspectrum
"esse
ntiallysecondarytoanyamateurnarrowbandemissionmodes,"the Leaguepointedout.andmaketheAPCrequirementunnecessaryto
!
avoidint
erfer
enceto
other
users
of
thesamespectrum. Inanyevent.theLeagueconcluded,radioamateursemployingSS modeswouldremainobligedtocomplywiththerulerequiringuse of"theminimumtransmitterpowernecessarytocarryoutthedesired communication."
That
wasaprimaryreasontheARRLaskedforthe APCprovisioninthefirstplace. TheFCChasnotyetassignedarulemaking(RM)petitionnum-. bertotheARR
L's
petitionnorinvitedcomments.
I
InitsNoticeofProposedRuleMaking(NPRM)WTDocket
04140,
the
FCC.
inresponsetoanotherARRLpetition,
propo
sedextendingthebands
ava
ilableforspreadspectrumtoinclude222
-225
MHz
.Onitsowninitiative.theCommissionalsorec
omm
ended
permittingSSoperationon
6
and
2
meters.amovetheARRLopp
oses
..
Initscomments.theLeaguecitedconcernsaboutraisingthenoise
1'1
flooron
6
metersandthefactthatbothbandsalreadysupportsub stantial
narrowband
andweak-signalwork,meaning"feweroPPOr-!i
tunities
forfrequencyreuseinthoseallocations."
I
TheCommissionisexpectedtoconcludeWTDocket
04-140this'
year.TheFCCsuggestedthatrestrictionsonspreadspectrumalready
I
inplaceshouldbesufficienttopreventanyadverseimpactofSSoper ationtootherusersof6and2meters.
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