The FCC Public Safety Bureau approved, with conditions, a request...
The FCC Public Safety Bureau approved, with conditions, a request by New Jersey’s Office of Information Technology for a waiver to permit licensing of a “deployable temporary [700 MHz] trunked repeater system” that will operate on eight 12.5 kHz narrowband…
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interoperability channels. “Based on the particular factors presented here, we find New Jersey’s request sufficiently similar to our precedent to warrant a waiver,” the bureau said (http://fcc.us/11ZLYlH). But the bureau required, consistent with past orders, that the operations must be on a secondary basis: “i.e., the repeaters (a) must not cause interference to, and must accept interference from, any fixed base station, and its associated mobiles, operating on the narrowband interoperability channels, and (b) must not cause interference to, and must accept interference from, any mobile or portable unit operating in the ‘direct,’ i.e., unit-to-unit mode."