Wireless Spectrum Finder | 
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Manufacturer: McGraw Hill Text
Category: EBooks
List Price: $50.00
Buy New: $40.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 51160
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 6
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 512
Dewey Decimal Number: 384.542240973
ASIN: B000FA5MFI
Publication Date: January 4, 2002
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Product Description
ALL THE DATA YOU NEED FOR SPECTRUM PLANNING -- IN ONE SOURCE Instead of poring through records of proceedings, federal code, and technical publications, quickly access essential information on that prime but invisible expanse of real estate, the public airwaves. In Wireless Spectrum Finder, veteran industry reporter Bennett Z. Kobb brings you impeccably researched, plain-English data and analysis of the regulatory, business, legal, and technical factors affecting each of more than 350 bands in the U.S. spectrum, including:
*Commentary helpful to anyone looking to exploit, change, or influence FCC rule-making
*Scientific definitions and allowable uses for each band
*Types of licenses and their geographic areas and business ventures
*Pointers to all original sources for regulations and proceedings
*Up-to-date FCC terminology and definitions
*Regulatory trends, including FCC deliberations on the use of ultra wide band (UWB), software-defined radio (SDR), and secondary markets in spectrum
*Effects of congressional legislation
*Explanations and insights on FCC rules and regulatory powers, including official footnotes
Download Description
All the (fully updated with FCC changes) data you need for spectrum planning including analysis of the business, legal, and technical trends.
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Highly useful book for wireless reference July 12, 2001
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Wireless Spectrum Finder has come full circle. It was originally published as SpectrumGuide in hardcopy, then published as an electronic book, and has now reverted back to hardcopy, published by McGraw-Hill. I was permitted to see a review copy of SpectrumGuide, and while it was tremendously useful to have the ability to do keyword searches, I like the book format of Wireless Spectrum Finder even better than I liked SpectrumGuide. Wireless Spectrum Finder is an annotated list of the various spectrum allocations in the US. In that role, it's extremely valuable to see Kobb's notes on how a particular chunk of spectrum came into use (and often what use it served prior to being reallocated), how it is encumbered, and what "special features" it has. Kobb basically works his way through the spectrum, and handles what could be a dry and dull job with grace and humor. In the sections of particular interest to me, such as 902 - 928 MHz, 2.4 to 2.485 GHz, etc. Kobb does a very credible job of explaining the varying (and at times conflicting) uses of a particular chunk of spectrum. At one point I offered some feedback that Kobb didn't make particular note of the fact that 2.4 - 2.485 GHz was heavily used by ISP's using Part 15 equipment, and that comment was included in the next issue of SpectrumGuide (and was incorporated into Wireless Spectrum Finder). Of particular note is that Kobb maintains an online errata list on his web page. This is particularly welcome for a reference work. I highly recommend Wireless Spectrum Finder. It's an excellent reference work and I find it indispensable in my work as a writer dealing with wireless issues. It has found a permanent home on the "gotta be within easy reach" top shelf of the bookcase behind my desk.
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