Ogden, that's part 15. We're talking part 97 rules here. In particular, §97.311 states that an amateur radio operator can use spread-spectrum communications to whatever extent he or she wishes, as long as it is allowed in that band. In essence, an amateur radio operator can experiment with very esoteric things, as long as it is constrained within the boundaries of what a ham radio operator is limited. And what kills it is not your part 15 citation, but several part 97 rules:
§97.113 Prohibited transmissions
(a) No amateur station shall transmit:
(4)Music using a phone emission except as specifically provided elsewhere in this section; communications intended to facilitate a criminal act;
messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning, except as otherwise provided herein;
obscene or indecent words or language; or false or deceptive messages, signals or identification.
(5)Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be furnished alternatively through other radio services.
§97.307
(f) The following standards and limitations apply to transmissions on the frequencies specified in §97.305(c) of this part.
(1) No angle-modulated emission may have a modulation index greater than 1 at the highest modulation frequency.
(Most Wifi modulation schemes are used with MI's far in excess of 1)
NiHaoMike,
Please tell me you don't think that somehow one can derive a baseband or IF output from some wifi device, feed it into a "rabbit" FM video transmitter, and be able to demodulate that signal out of the "rabbit" video receiver back to a WiFi signal. You do know what differential phase and differential gain is, what linearity means, and why all of this matters with a Wifi signal, right?