Airport Outdoor point-to-point wireless regulations

[brettlarkins]

Anybody out there have experience with wireless point-to-point bridges around an airport?

1) Bridge is from Airport to another building 1 mile away.  Tower heights permitted around the airport?  Tower locations permitted?  Frequencies permitted / not permitted?  Any issue with pushing wireless across the tarmac and/or runway?

2) What frequency is allowed when a bridge is being installed and there is an airport (and the runway) in between the 2 links of a wireless bridge?

Frequencies permitted / not permitted?  Any other things to be aware of?

Thanks!

[Dennis Kline]

First, are we talking United States ?

Assuming yes, then here are some points for your consideration...

There most certainly are regulations for towers around airports.  Will this be on an existing tower, new tower, existing building, etc ???

• If it is a new tower, go to the FCC website  ( http://wireless.fcc.gov/antenna/index.htm?job=home)
• Click on TOWAIR.  You will need to input lat / lon coordinates, structure height and type of structure  (if it is a tower, select either GTOWR (guyed) or LTOWER (free standing lattice).
• It will then tell you if you require registration or not.  If it requires registration, you are in for a lot of work, and it is a very lengthy process.
• If it says you do not require registration (and make sure you entered all the information correctly before you assume it does NOT require registration) then you are pretty free to install the tower and use unlicensed wifi spectrum.
• If it DOES require registration, you will have to make filings with the FAA which will require spectrum information

[brettlarkins]

Yes, sorry... the question was for wireless within the United States.

Thank you very much for the info and the link!

Much appreciated...