Hi,
I am located North America where the LORA band allocated is 915 MHz. However, I accidently bought the wrong LORAWAN kits that only allows 433/470 MHz that is for amateur use in our region. I am thinking to configure my LoRa gateway and end node to EU433, and register them to the things network. Just wondering if the network server would accept the Join Request sent from my end device? in the other words, if the band selected on the network server does not comply with the region the device is actually located, will the join request be accepted by the network server?
The LNS doesn’t care if you use EU433 in the US because it’s not that clever.
The device & gateway have to match frequency - you can’t bend a 915 device to do 433 or vice versa.
The LoRa Alliance won’t be impressed as they got the regional parameters sorted out for jolly good reasons.
I can’t speak for the federal authorities on your use of 433 with the kit you have, so your mileage there & any subsequent legal issues need to be considered.
More details on how the Join is processed is covered in the Learn section (linked above) and the documentation and the LW specification.
Although the 433/470Mhz band might well be allocated in the US amateur radio use, do check the detail of the restrictions.
In some countries the amateur bands can only be used for sending messages to other licensed amateurs.
Thus the amateur bands cannot be used for general purpose broadcasting such as LoRa sensor transmissions readings.
LoRaWAN transmissions are encrypted, so also check that the US amateur restrictions allow the transmission of encrypted messages, I suspect they do not.