[Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio presentation at FCC TAC meeting last week

[Dewayne Hendricks]

	Last week, Eric Blossom gave a presentation on GNURadio at 
the FCC's Technological Advisory Council (TAC) 
<http://www.fcc.gov/oet/tac> meeting in DC.  You can find it on-line 
at:

                <http://www.fcc.gov/realaudio/mt120402.ram>

        The agenda for the meeting can be found at:

         <http://www.fcc.gov/realaudio/mt120402agenda.pdf>

	Eric's presentation was the second item on the agenda.  I 
think that Eric did a great job and it is well worth it to give the 
talk a listen, especially in order to hear the dialog between Eric 
and the FCC staffers and members of the TAC.
	The FCC learned a great deal about the potential benefits and 
impacts of SDR that they hadn't previously heard from any company or 
industry group.  As SDR's get in the hands of more and more people, 
it will cause the way that the radio spectrum and wireless devices 
are regulated to undergo some major changes.  Eric painted a very 
good picture about what this new world would look like and I'm happy 
to say that some key FCC staffers got it.


-- Dewayne
Chair, Spectrum Management Working Group
FCC TAC