[AusNOG] WIFI/Internet on Planes

[Curtis Bayne]

What I'd be more worried about is some people taking the relaxation of the
rules as tacit approval for any transmitting device, regardless of the
sanity of its output power.

I can just see some new F-call amateur taking his 10W HT on the plane and
keying up every repeater for 100KM - heavens knows what this does to
ACARS/ILS if there's any unintended sidebands/harmonics, especially if
they're keying up on VHF.


On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:

>
> On Jul 8, 2014, at 11:14 AM, John Edwards <jaedwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So yeah, maybe listen to the battleaxe when it's a 737.
>
> "Based on testing that has been conducted, Boeing and Honeywell have
> concluded that actual EMI levels experienced during normal operation of
> typical passenger Wi-Fi systems would not cause any blanking of the Phase 3
> DU. This issue does not exist with the Phase 1 or 2 DU's."
>
> Boeing don't want to get sued if an airplane goes down - this reads more
> like a combination of a) typical regulatory testing to extremes and b)
> problems with one particular model of one particular display, which aren't
> really in any sort of danger, but government are (rightly, IMHO) playing it
> safe.
>
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