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

[Karl Möller]

Here is an older draft document, dated end 2014 directly from the regulator (ICASA):

http://www.icasa.org.za/Portals/0/Regulations/Working%20Docmuents/Radio%20Frequency%20Spectrum%20Regulations/DraftRevRadioFreq.pdf

Notice on page end 80 / top 81 that it lists:

"DFS & Transmitter Power Control Obligatory” for the band in question, which is now deleted in the final document published in March this year.

Regards
Karl

> On 28 Sep 2015, at 7:42 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> 
> 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