Re: Channel assignments for DTV in the VHF bands

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 07:54:23 +0000 (UTC) Alan <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| In article <fo55g9429ji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx writes:
|
|>Today we can easily see that UHF is the better choice for two way radio,
|>with the exception of water absorption around 2.45 GHz. I'd have been
|>happy to see the entire TV broadcast spectrum move to C-band and bump the
|>satellite services all up to Ku band.
|
| I think you would have had a substantial problem with the attenuation of
| c-band signals through trees, walls, etc.
|
| Also, the existing terrestial users of c-band might have had cause to
| object.

Those thoughts back then were not all that specific. Sure, any terrestrial
c-band users sure would object. But there are broadcast subbands well above
1 GHz, which potentially could have been used.

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