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Brian Whitaker's avatar

Steve - glad I found you here. Well written response, and I appreciate the coaching for others on the tone and content of their response.

I’m an RF engineer and a ham (AG6WR) and serve my local town CERT group. I’m in the middle of demo’ing a new HaLow intranet to connect CERT command posts with data service to allow for digital message (form, photos, etc) transfer. Further, I am working on plans to build our own Meshtastic “channel” to connect those and more sites to move telemetry data (door state, solar array/battery state, temperature, etc).

This fits as an example of EmComm applications you envisioned in your response. I might also use power and/or high gain antennas which would drive me to operate under amateur rules (wrt encryption, call sign beacon, etc) but it seems that might only dilute the argument as FCC sees it.

I’m past the submission date - how can I best help at this point?

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Mark Davis - AD7EF's avatar

In your discussion of continuously-connected household appliances, you wrote:

3. My Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) appliance has a built-in cellular modem and thus offers to advise me, via an app, on the “quality of my sleep” (declined).

Regardless of reporting the sleep statistics to you, if you have insurance coverage for CPAP replacement supplies (filters, masks, headgear, hoses, tanks, etc.), your machine probably is reporting your nightly usage to your sleep-care medical provider. Most insurance companies, and Medicare, won't cover these supplies without confirmed regular usage of the machine.

I know that some CPAP users will mail (or hand-deliver) their CPAP SD-card to their sleep-care provider, on a monthly or bi-weekly basis, to avoid this internet monitoring.

Mark AD7EF

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