[1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Bill would HALT all residential / business WIFI installs

[John Brown]

True, the letters W I F I are not in the bill.

But

There is a current and immediate threat to public health, safety and
welfare because, without this urgency ordinance, towers and antennas
could be installed, constructed or modified ......

Notice that the word ANTENNAS is listed.  I believe that a WiFi device
would need such ANTENNA so as to provide telecommunications services.

The term WIRELESS is used, which WiFi is a subset of.

The bill seems to have the authority to prevent you from putting up say
a 23dBI Grid dish on your roof, pointed towards another antenna
someplace else within the city.

A microwave oven is NOT a telecommunications facility, nor does it
provide telecommunications services.

The bill DOES say ".... wireless telecommunication facilities within all
private properties..."   Note the words WITHIN ALL PRIVATE PROPERTIES.

This would appear to include the cordless telephone, baby monitor, alarm
systems, Audio/Video systems, security cameras, and CELL PHONES.


Please reference Chapter 14-6.2(E) of the existing code.

To quote:
14-6.2(E)2 Applicability

All towers or antennas located within the City limits whether upon
private or public lands shall be subject to this section....


Certain exclusions exist, but those do NOT exclude WIFI 

I would think that this means you can't go to Wal-Mart and buy a Linksys
wireless router anymore....


The point here is that, non-technical, non-understanding people are
writing words down and are not thinking the implications of such words.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so
effective as their stringent execution.  Ulysses S. Grant

Federally licensed amateur radio operators are excluded.


73's

John Brown

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gnarlodious [mailto:gnarlodious at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 8:07 PM
> To: John Brown
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Bill would HALT all residential /
> business WIFI installs
> 
> The terminology "WiFi" is not so much as mentioned in the bill.
> 
> The city does not have the authority to prevent ACTUAL WiFi access
> points on private property, which fall under the jurisdiction of FCC
> public access channels. If it were true what you say, the city would
> be forced to also regulate microwave ovens, cordless telephones, baby
> monitors, alarm systems, audio/video systems and security cameras.
> 
> I admit that from the radio perspective, the bill is ambiguously
> worded since evidently there is no person in Santa Fe who knows a
> darned thing about radio waves. Don't forget that the city lost about
> $750,000 recently when they installed a WiFi network to monitor and
> control Water Department facilities. The citizenry was so outraged at
> the ugliness of the boxes and transmitters that they made the city
> tear down the system which was then auctioned off and replaced with
> wired communication.
> 
> -- Gnarlie, K5ZN