[time-nuts] LightSquared gets at least some political attention

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Fri Apr 15 23:56:27 UTC 2011


On 04/16/2011 01:44 AM, lists at lazygranch.com wrote:
> The CEA is petitioning to have terrestrial TV refarmed to free up some spectrum. The wireless companies will both pay the government and the broadcasters to get the spectrum.
>
> Though I liked Clinton/Gore, the HDTV plan was boned headed beyond belief. They should have never allowed HDTV in VHF, but stationed wanted parity with their analog status.
>
> We have one HDTV station with a dozen channels. It is so multiplexed it doesn't even look like SDTV.
>
> Trust me, I could rant on for pages on this.

But have you gone SFN? That would compact the frequency needs such that 
LTE style broadband could be done in UHF instead of breaking up the GPS 
signal. SFN requires sufficiently good timing... but last time I looked 
at the ATSC SFN spec they got the fundamentals completely wrong, doable 
but overspeced due to the missunderstandings.

Cheers,
Magnus



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