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Specifically, SDR kits are usually rated as professional and test equipment, which are not certified by the FCC. The OP is about consumer products and other FCC-certified products.


I think they're not rated as anything. They simply have no manufacturer-supplied licensing/approvals whatsoever. So it is up to the user to gain an appropriate license and operate them to the conditions stipulated by that license.


>SDR kits are usually rated as professional and test equipment

The cheap ones aren't even that. They're repurposed/upcycled television DTV receivers.


Often by people manually modifying ones they bought themselves.

And, interestingly, many satellite receivers allow users to just enter a frequency in the supported range and they will happily load and display the data on that frequency.


FWIW I haven't seen anything in the new rules (admittedly I have focused on SDR and U-NII regs) which pretends to cover anything but intentional radiators (i.e. transmitters).




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