RayW
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| This technology could interfere
with certain other corporate plans.....
I like how when a possible interfering technology comes along it is shot down with detailed studies, but when another interfering technology (BPL) comes along, it is ok.
Not that there are not potential problems with this, the frequencies looked at appear to be in the areas of 54-72 MHz, 76-88 MHz, 174-216 MHz, and 470-698 MHz. Now in about 4 years or so, 54-72 MHz, 76-88 MHz and maybe 174-216 MHz will be going a heck of lot farther than line of sight. Even in today's propagation doldrums I used 50 MHz to talk from the Salt Lake City, Utah area to Seattle, Washington area (and I was only using 50 watts and a 9 foot high dipole). And I have seen reports of 144 MHz doing about the same distances recently back in the crowded east coast areas, although it is much rarer now than it will be. And around 1980, we had our portable/mobile line of sight 48-56 MHz communications wiped out in the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento River Delta area because of skip from units operating in VIRGINIA!
While I am skeptical of the FCC's testing rationale, the technical aspect may be valid.
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Heterman
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Fayetteville, AR | I can see it now. The "new" skip shooting. Erecting 802.1x beams and directional yagis, attaching to a wireless access point hundreds to thousands of miles away. |
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N3OGH
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Philly burbs | reply to RayW
Dude, that 6 meter band can do some wacky stuff..
Back in the old regular TV days, 6 meters was the SCOURGE of the rabbit eared...
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RayW
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| said by N3OGH  :Dude, that 6 meter band can do some wacky stuff.. Back in the old regular TV days, 6 meters was the SCOURGE of the rabbit eared... Yes TVs were not very well designed and some still are not. But I was not using 6 meters in the 80's, I was military using military freqs.
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N3OGH
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Philly burbs | Gotcha.... |
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TScheisskopf
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Belvidere, NJ | reply to Heterman
Imagine the fun with Yagis and Log periodics, temperature inversions and meteorite scatter.  |
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CyberRage
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said by RayW :said by N3OGH :Dude, that 6 meter band can do some wacky stuff.. Back in the old regular TV days, 6 meters was the SCOURGE of the rabbit eared... Yes TVs were not very well designed and some still are not. But I was not using 6 meters in the 80's, I was military using military freqs. Yep, TV's used to hava a 50 MHz IF. Didn't go well with 6 meters or anything close to the lower edge of the band.
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RayW
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| said by CyberRage :said by RayW :said by N3OGH :Dude, that 6 meter band can do some wacky stuff.. Back in the old regular TV days, 6 meters was the SCOURGE of the rabbit eared... Yes TVs were not very well designed and some still are not. But I was not using 6 meters in the 80's, I was military using military freqs. Yep, TV's used to hava a 50 MHz IF. Didn't go well with 6 meters or anything close to the lower edge of the band. Yes, but if they were correctly designed it would not matter. But that is an argument that has been going on as long as there has been people on two different frequencies.
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