| Welcome to the Carolina Flashers Photonics Group |
![]() | The Carolina Flashers  Photonics Group is an organization of Amateur Radio operators in North Carolina (and beyond) who experiment with coherent, or more often, partially coherent light as a communications medium. |   |
![]() | According to Federal Communications Commission regulations, the frequencies above 300GHz are a legitimate allocation for the Amateur Radio Service.  This includes light waves, of course.  While many people consider through-the-air optical communication to be an unregulated medium, we as licensed hams follow all applicable FCC Part 97 rules, such as callsign IDs, no commercial messaging, etc. |
1 Status: COMPLETED. On May 25th 2010, CFPG was granted its first choice vanity club callsign, K4THZ.
2 Status: Proposed founding documents have been made available for comment by the members. Once any changes have been adopted, they will be submitted to the ARRL for approval.
3 Status: COMPLETED. The ARRL Board of Directors, during their second 2010 meeting held July 16th and 17th, “clarified the VHF rules to allow monochromatic sources (such as laser or LED) to count for contest credit, as long as the laser power is less than 5 mW.”
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