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They say, "This means that all you need to do to turn the Raspberry-Pi into a (ridiculously powerful) FM Transmitter..." and claim it's transmitting at least 50 meters away, which is far beyond what's allowed by the FCC. Not that they'd care unless someone filed a complaint.


Wrong.

There are multiple rules for different spectrum.

Anyone can transmit for miles on FM in the 'green dot' / 'blue dot' spectrum. The laws were written for business, but anyone can use them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_band#Overview


But that's not the band on which this is transmitting.


This can be configured in software. Pi can transmit up over 450 Mhz.


And with a paperclip antenna, it's leaking harmonics all over the place, not just at 450MHz or 100MHz, or whatever.




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