Re: Wholesale radio frequencies being eaten by big business

Tracy Wintermute <arrgh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You mention "freed-up" frequencies and so forth being sold... has
there been any specific discussion of the frequencies currently in SR
use being auctioned off? Or, are you predicting this as an
eventuality? If you seek to engage in an application-specific battle,
there will need to be reasonable proof of that application being
threatened. Frequencies vacated by non-SR entities being sold to other
non-SR entities would not constitute such a threat.

The basic story is that most standard wireless systems use UHF and VHF
TV channels on a non-interference basis. Because of the change in channel
allocations with HDTV coming along, and the fact that we no longer need
to leave alternate channels open for interference protection, soon none
of this space will be available.

SOME of this space is also going to be auctioned off for public service
communication as well. Lots of folks are moving out of the land-mobile
bands and onto new trunking systems on what were formerly high UHF TV
channels.

It is still possible to get licensed channel allocations in the 460 MHz
band for wireless, but you have to do the paperwork and you have to pay
the fees and get the wireless packs set up properly for the channels.
It is also possible to use the broadcast auxiliary frequencies or the
motion picture industry frequencies IF you are legally in those businesses
and have purchased station licenses for the wireless packs.

But pretty much all of the low-end wireless systems and most of the high
end ones are operating on TV channels that are soon to go away. I do not
see a technical solution for this. At best, the FCC can designate a small
band for itinerant wireless microphones but then everyone will need to
modify or replace their existing equipment.

Also, attorneys will certainly consider SR use as business use
(because it is). I can envision stringent licensing requirements and
fees in the future due to that... which is also a scenario worth
fighting against.

I am STRONGLY in favor of stringent licensing requirements, because if we
had them in the first place we would never have got into this state. The
problem is that folks are running unlicensed microphones and that makes
them invisible to the licensing authorities. The folks reallocating TV
channels never gave a thought to wireless microphone users because they
probably didn't even know they existed.

If you sign a form and send a check and get an entry in the frequency
coordinator's database, you are no longer invisible.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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