VicNaz1
Lurker
Just so everyone knows what I'm about, I'm a Search and Rescue expert at the FAA. I'm currently trying to figure out how we can use cell phones to find airplanes without using cell tower multilateration (look that one up if you want, it's cool). What I need to do is I would very much like to know if turning on / off the various bands / spectrum in the Android can be done across the entire product line?
If so, I'm looking to pitch this to some senior FAA folks as a solution for small airplanes that sometimes get lost and crash. These airplanes are often flying too low for radar to track and these guys don't get found for days. If I can enable a cell phone to 'ping' out their position via text message the only problem would be programming the android to NOT use the 850 frequency spectrum. The FCC says that airborne aircraft cannot use the 800 - 850 MHz band. All others are legal in GA (small, private) airplanes.
So everyone got the picture? I could program an android to send position reports to the FAA every 10 minutes for safety tracking purposes if only the FCC didn't have a regulation against any device using the 800 - 850 MHz spectrum. That particular regulation is a hold-over from the old analog cell phone days. In essence the FCC considers ONLY devices using 800 - 850 MHz to be cellular radiotelephones. All other devices using all other frequencies are considered something else and are NOT restricted from airborne operations. That means if I turn off 850 MHz, it's cool.
Can anyone help with not only Android but any other cell phones out there? This is all because I want to try and enable a system that will maybe, just maybe get some poor pilot home to his or her family rather than crashing and slowly dying in the wild because no one knows where he is.
Thanks,
Victor Nazarian
VicNaz1@aol.com
If so, I'm looking to pitch this to some senior FAA folks as a solution for small airplanes that sometimes get lost and crash. These airplanes are often flying too low for radar to track and these guys don't get found for days. If I can enable a cell phone to 'ping' out their position via text message the only problem would be programming the android to NOT use the 850 frequency spectrum. The FCC says that airborne aircraft cannot use the 800 - 850 MHz band. All others are legal in GA (small, private) airplanes.
So everyone got the picture? I could program an android to send position reports to the FAA every 10 minutes for safety tracking purposes if only the FCC didn't have a regulation against any device using the 800 - 850 MHz spectrum. That particular regulation is a hold-over from the old analog cell phone days. In essence the FCC considers ONLY devices using 800 - 850 MHz to be cellular radiotelephones. All other devices using all other frequencies are considered something else and are NOT restricted from airborne operations. That means if I turn off 850 MHz, it's cool.
Can anyone help with not only Android but any other cell phones out there? This is all because I want to try and enable a system that will maybe, just maybe get some poor pilot home to his or her family rather than crashing and slowly dying in the wild because no one knows where he is.
Thanks,
Victor Nazarian
VicNaz1@aol.com
