• This equipment authorization database contains records for equipment which was either Certified, Type Accepted, and/or Verified by the FCC.
• Because of rule changes over the years, not all electronic equipment will have an authorization from the FCC and thus it will NOT be in this database. In general, if your equipment does NOT have an FCC ID number clearly labeled on it, it will NOT be in this equipment authorization database. In fact, the FCC would not have any record of it.
• The FCC ID is NOT related to the FCC Registration Number under Part 68 Connection of Terminal Equipment to the Telephone Network. However, you can determine the manufacturer of Part 68 equipment from the first three or four characters of the FCC Registration Number and this Part 68 address table (> 800 kB).
• Link to DOC labels
• Typical Labels

Example	Information
	FCC ID	Equipment displaying this label should be in this database.
	FCC DoC Declaration of Conformity	Equipment displaying this label would NOT be in this database. The FCC would NOT have any record of this equipment. It is declared to comply with FCC regulations by the manufacturer or importer.
	FCC Reg. # Registration Number	Equipment displaying this label would only be in this database if it also has an FCC ID: label. (e.g older modems) The FCC Registration Number itself would never appear in this database. (See part 68 note above.)

Definitions

• The FCC ID consists of two elements, a grantee code and an equipment product code. The FCC ID is assigned for Equipment Authorization under various rules parts including Parts 15, 90, 101...

• The Grantee code is a three character alphanumeric string representing the Grantee/Applicant. The Grantee Code always begins with an alphabetic character and does not contain the numbers one and/or zero. This is a wildcard search to the right of the entered code. The Grantee Code is assigned by the Commission permanently to a company for authorization of all radio frequency equipment.

• The Product Code is the non-grantee code portion of the FCC ID. The Product Code may include hyphens and/or dashes (-).

Examples

• FCCID: AAOXXXXXX

  (Grantee Code only search)

• FCCID: DZL211029

  (Partial Equipment Product Code search)

• FCCID: B4Z-34009-PIR

• FCCID: LKD1

Software Drivers

If you are trying to locate new software drivers or the manufacturer for a piece of computer equipment, you should first find the name of the manufacturer with the search above then use your favorite Internet search engine (e.g. WebCrawler, Yahoo, Excite...) to locate the web site of the manufacturer. Please note that the first three digits of the FCC ID Number are unique for each manufacturer. If you cannot find their web site, try a software driver web site. (e.g. MrDriver.com, WinFiles.com, Windrivers.com...) The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 prohibits the Commission from collecting information that does not directly relate to the function for which the information is collected in this case equipment authorization. Therefore, we cannot legally collect manufacturers web site information nor add that information to this web site.

Possible problems and solutions to the message There are no records matching your query.

• Verify that you have the correct FCC ID.
• Verify that you have the FCC ID (Part 15) and not the FCC Registration Number (Part 68) (see Definitions above)
• Remember... hyphens and dashes ARE relevant.
• Sometimes Ss and 5s, 0s and Os, and 1s and Is, look alike.
• Search on only the first three characters of the FCC ID which are unique for each grantee.

Server Error

If you try the database lookup and get the error below please try the FCC Electronic Filing and Public Access page to determine if the server is down.  You may also try your search again in a few hours.  The physical operation of the server is handled elsewhere and the staff of OET is unable to determine the cause of server breakdowns.  The above link does provide additional contact information.

"This server has encountered an internal error which prevents it from fulfilling your request. The most likely cause is a misconfiguration. Please ask the administrator to look for messages in the server's error log."

Firewalls and Proxy Servers

This problem typically applies to corporate users. Dial-up users probably wont have problems associated with firewalls and proxy servers.

If you are experiencing problems accessing these servers, (e.g. Clicking on the search button never returns information or the browser times out.) the problem may not be at the FCC. Many firewalls are not setup correctly for access to this system. For you to access these servers, either your firewall must allow http traffic on port 8080, your firewall must allow SSL traffic (https) on port 443, or you must setup your browser to use a proxy server. If you are having problems accessing these servers, first ask your computer help desk about your firewall and proxy server configuration.

For example, the FCC has a firewall which allows http traffic on port 80 and https traffic on port 443. However, it doesn't allow http traffic on port 8080. Therefore, if the proxy setting of a browser inside the FCC's firewall is setup to use "Direct Connection to the Internet," the browser could only access the alternate servers using https on port 443 (SSL). If the browser is setup to "Access the Internet Using a Proxy Server" (e.g. internet:80) then the browser would be able to access all of these servers without incident.

Secure Sockets Layer servers

A Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) capable browser is needed for access to the SSL servers such as Netscape Navigator 4.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0. If you don't have an SSL capable browser you may access the servers using http on port 8080. (e.g. https://gullfoss.fcc.gov/ is equivalent to http://gullfoss.fcc.gov:8080/ )