[wireless-regdb] wireless-regdb: Update regulatory rules for South Africa (ZA) on 5GHz

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Mon Sep 28 10:42:45 PDT 2015


On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 11:07 -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 09:44:20AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > 
> > > The bands don’t quite match up and DFS/TPC is (apparently) not 
> > > required for 5470 - 5725. More importantly, the max transmitted 
> > > power
> > > seems to be 1W/30dBm e.i.r.p and not 27dBm.
> > 
> > Without checking now, just a note: we sometimes have lower limits 
> > here
> > due to spectral power density, indoor/outdoor or TPC requirements.
> 
> One of the documents says that the TPC requirement for that range was
> lifted in March 2015, so if it was lowered for TPC then we may be 
> able to bump it up to 30 dBm.
> 

That's very well possible then - the typical TCP requirement is "1/2 of
the power w/o TPC", which would match the 3dB

johannes



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