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Re: Disappointing said by sbrook:It disappoints me that the ARRL has taken an "I'm alright Jack" attitude to this by saying it doesn't affect amateur frequencies, when in fact it is going to hurt LOTS of other parts of the spectrum. It has been the ARRL's stance from the beginning to strive for protection of amateur radio spectrum only. BPL interests would probably try to invalidate ARRL's issues with BPL and amateur radio spectrum if it started complaining about other services that it had no stake in. I tend to agree with them, though it's sad other services have basically done little to nothing to protect their spectrum.
As I mentioned two articles ago, Current has been very successful with the Cincinnati trial, with no unresolved interference issues. TXU did have an earlier trial with Amperion that had unresolved issues and was deactivated before the FCC could take action. I don't recall TXU ever fessing up to the interference, but their decision to go with Current says a lot. |
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There really isn't that much use of the 30-50 Mhz "Low band" any more. Most of the state police agencies that used it are long gone to trunked, million dollar Motorola garbage.
Of course, when they finally auction off the analog TV VHF spectrum and move public safety to 700 Mhz, all those million dollar Motorola systems will be so much scrap and the equipment will hit the surplus market. I can see the hams licking their chops now. Mobiles and HT's for a song, trunking systems on the cheap....Hams will finally get to use some of the UHF and microwave spectrum they have. |
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| said by Fatal Vector:There really isn't that much use of the 30-50 Mhz "Low band" any more. Most of the state police agencies that used it are long gone to trunked, million dollar Motorola garbage. Of course, when they finally auction off the analog TV VHF spectrum and move public safety to 700 Mhz, all those million dollar Motorola systems will be so much scrap and the equipment will hit the surplus market. I can see the hams licking their chops now. Mobiles and HT's for a song, trunking systems on the cheap....Hams will finally get to use some of the UHF and microwave spectrum they have. This is a totally anecdotal statistic (no link provided, standard disclaimers apply  ), but I know there's at least one antenna manufacturer that is still pumping out about 2000 low band VHF base station/repeater antennas a year, so there's still a lot of use. Like most things technological, trends are cyclic. You'll see low band VHF become sexy once again after the higher bands get too congested or the county $100M high tech system fails.
I don't see the FCC reallocating UHF or microwave spectrum to hams. Hams have plenty of UHF and microwave to work with now. |
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Cheyenne, WY
2 edits | The military is a big user of frequencies in the upper part of this frequency range. I wish they would not pollute the 6 meter region because it has some very interesting propagation characteristics. The 49 mhz area is one I have used when I was in the Army National Guard and we used to be able to talk from Camp Guernsey, Wyoming to Ft Carson, Colorado from our vehicles which is a range of just short of 300 miles. It is a very nice mobile frequency.
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