ReconRobotics fired back at the National Association for Amateur Radio...
ReconRobotics fired back at the National Association for Amateur Radio (ARRL), which asked the FCC to reconsider a February staff-level order letting ReconRobotics sell up to 8,000 units of its Recon Scout every year. The scout is a remote-controlled surveillance…
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robot operating in the 420-450 MHz band, designed to be used to check a building prior to forced entry, search vehicle undercarriages for explosives, identify hostages, and otherwise assist first responders. “The waiver and licensing proceedings have subjected ReconRobotics to more than four years of uncertainty and delay, almost entirely at the hands of ARRL and its allies in the amateur community,” ReconRobotics said (http://xrl.us/bmyrgs). “Having lost every substantive decision in both proceedings, ARRL now seeks yet again to inject a further element of uncertainty into ReconRobotics’s operations going forward. As before, this threatens only to keep the Recon Scout away from first responders, many of whom have told the Commission that they need the device to save lives.”