07/29/2016
The FCC is inviting comments on a June 11 request from Expert Linears America
LLC to waive ?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[1]), 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 Notic[2]e[3]. "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.
On May 26, ARRL told the FCC[4] that it "strongly supports" Expert's petition
seeking to eliminate the Amateur Service rule, spelled out in ?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.
[1] http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=60001536394
[2] https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-16-864A1.pdf
[3] https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-16-864A1.pdf
[4] http://www.arrl.org/files/media/News/ARRL20on20Linears20PRM2011767%20FINAL.p
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