RayW
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| Well, The hams are taken care of but...
If this is the one that is suppose to take up low VHF, then you still have a bunch of folks that still use those frequencies, like 'public service' and some radio astronomy. Those people will not raise a fuss until there has been a lot of money spent and enough users on to really cause trouble.
I remember one year we were operating around 36-45 MHz and were unable to talk to units several miles away (Sacramento River Delta in California) yet we could talk to helicopters in Virgina. Of course that was a high peak sunspot cycle and now we are at the bottom of a very (I think) weak trough for a year or so more. Wonder what will happen when/if this technology for some reason gets really big and the next sunspot cycle is very active?
Of course, maybe all the radio users will be up in the microwave range (antennas and the radios are a lot smaller) and it will be a null issue. Although low VHF does have the advantage that although it is considered line of sight, it still curves around things like mountains and buildings a bit.
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