"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof at do-not-panic.com> writes: > In the meantime, while that gets developed, I'd still like to supply > patches to enable VHT80 for a few countries without hopefully such > high bar for documentation as I cannot get this information. I believe VHT80 (and VHT160) is allowed by current regulations in a large number of countries, and that the current db entries are in fact wrong by stating any upper channel width limits at all in the 5 GHz bands. For example, regulations in most CEPT countries are likely based on "ECC/DEC/(04)08 on the harmonised use of the 5 GHz frequency bands for the implementation of Wireless Access Systems including Radio Local Area Networks (WAS/RLANs)" or a previous version of that decision. Which is available here: http://www.erodocdb.dk/Docs/doc98/official/pdf/ECCDEC0408.PDF Quoting: "considering .. e. that the systems covered by this ECC Decision operate typically in a 20 MHz channel bandwidth, other values for the channel bandwidth are also feasible provided they comply with the relevant maximum mean e.i.r.p. and the corresponding maximum mean e.i.r.p. density limits; " and the continues deciding the mentioned power and power density limits only, without any specific channelization. This document clearly allows and anticipates both wider and narrower channels, and so does most likely the national regualations implementing the decision. The list of CEPT countries implementating this decision is here: http://www.erodocdb.dk/doks/implement_doc_adm.aspx?docid=2033 Bj?rn
