FCC asking for input ,use of all or some of TV band for wireless,etc.

[Al Tobia]

Here is a link to FCC . . .wanting to steal all or some of TV broadcast band for future things ( like wireless ),I doubt it'll be all but I can see some.
I'm sure most TV broadcasters will fight.

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-09-2518A1.doc

Al ( northern CA )

[spunker88]

Here is a link to FCC . . .wanting to steal all or some of TV broadcast band for future things ( like wireless ),I doubt it'll be all but I can see some.
I'm sure most TV broadcasters will fight.

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-09-2518A1.doc

Al ( northern CA )

Okay, they just got the upper UHF band this year and I dont think theyve done anything with it yet. But maybe theyre still waiting on low-powered analog stations to switch.

Also, I was thinking the other day wouldnt the unwanted low band VHF work fine for wireless. Cellphone towers must have constructive interference, or else there would be many more dead spots and interference. So even if there was tropo/e-skip it wouldnt have as much of an impact on cell towers, which are built for interference from nearby towers. Im not sure what a partially propagated distant signal would do to a nearby one, but it seems that the current high-freq cellphone towers have no problems with interference with one another, although there is no tropo/e-skip in these high freqs.

[Al Tobia]

Spunker88,

The wireless thinkers feel the TV frequencies are prime real estate,like I said before there are many frequencies between Ch. 13 and Ch. 14 that are prime for wireless ,but most are government frequencies that the feds will not give up.

I can see where in rural areas TV frequencies ( outside a TV stations main service area ) will be used for wireless and in metropolitan areas unused TV channels will be used.
The present channels will get protected.

There goes low power TV ,something that never took off.

If this happens who is to blame,the broadcaster and the FCC !!!!

Look at some of your local low-power TV stations, many just feed a satellite service 24/7 . . . nothing local.
Look at the big stations ,other then local news what do they do that is local . . . can you take your kid down to the local TV station kid show . . . you use to be able to . . . now very few stations do anything local but news.

I am anxious to see both sides make their case.

I have heard people say that the FCC and other groups think TV broadcasters do not use the band "efficiently" well it was the FCC that made it that way ,spacing channels like they do,co-channel spacing ,adjacent channel spacing,etc.,etc.,etc.

One thing being said is some present wireless frequenices are not utilized well ,they should make the present band use better before stealing other services ( TV in this case ) frequencies.

Al ( northern CA. )