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Re:FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone t... by triactual on Thursday July 01, 2021 @07:43PM (#27706276)
No, dip switches are for end user configuration. Radio modules use firmware or other semipermanent and non-user accessible configuration to set frequency bands which is usually for regionalization. There isn’t really a use case for transmitting in global navigation bands outside of malicious jamming or spoofing.
Re:FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone t... by tdeck on Friday July 02, 2021 @01:46AM (#27708165)
This. They could easily have just masked out some different jumpers with zero-ohm resistors to set the frequency band. In fact, it would have been cheaper to build that way. The only reason to use DIP switches is to let people mess around with the frequency themselves.