Another Spectrum Auction?

[ZetaMale]

Wasnt it Bill Gates who said something like "64k will be more than any computer will ever need" ??

How fast is too fast.

I have 500 Mb internet here at home and it seems fast enough with the enormous amount of devices that I have. I could get 1 Gb WAN but why?

 

[Juan]

You'll never see any auction for AM because the band sucks and doesn't have much bandwidth at all. If you took out the entire AM radio band, you'd have 1.16MHz. TV requires about 6MHz of bandwidth. If anything, they should make that band all digital to allow multiple channels on one frequency with FM quality audio.

I have a Low VHF station that's on channel 2 (54MHz) within a 30 mile range. That thing is about impossible to pick up from my location. Maybe yours was easier due to the fact that it was on the higher end of low VHF (less interference maybe at 76MHz?).

Exactly my point

 

[navychop]

I thank LG for leading the way on ATSC 3!

 

[N6BY]

I thank LG for leading the way on ATSC 3!

And that would be straight to the dust bin of history, never to be seen again. Kinda like ATSC 2, but far worse.

I sure wish that the FCC would stop selling out to the cellular industry! They nibble away at OTA TV and C-Band spectrum.

Let's get rid of the FCC and freeze the radio spectrum band plan. No more changes.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

You'll never see any auction for AM because the band sucks and doesn't have much bandwidth at all. If you took out the entire AM radio band, you'd have 1.16MHz. TV requires about 6MHz of bandwidth. If anything, they should make that band all digital to allow multiple channels on one frequency with FM quality audio.

But we have that now. Guess you haven't listened to WION.

WION AM STEREO 1430 take a listen that is real AM radio.

Great sound is possible on AM but most owners dont want to take the time or invest to make it sound this good.

 

[k4otl]

And that would be straight to the dust bin of history, never to be seen again. Kinda like ATSC 2, but far worse.

I sure wish that the FCC would stop selling out to the cellular industry! They nibble away at OTA TV and C-Band spectrum.

Let's get rid of the FCC and freeze the radio spectrum band plan. No more changes.

Freeze except for a supermajority in Congress? Constitutional amendment? Some change is inevitable, but it's getting ridiculous for sure.

 

[Corrado]

Should the VHF low band ever be utilized again in my area, I'm ready. My huge antenna is still in use from 20+ years ago up on the roof. Overkill for modern needs.

I miss the ducting events that were more common on analog low band TV with the DX by simply changing channels. It still happens but modern televisions often require scanning to notice. Last year around the time of the auroras last Fall there was a hurricane or tropical storm to the south and I briefly found a half dozen channels from Georgia or somewhere from the south east US one evening for about an hour in upstate NY.

Back before the digital transition I used to enjoy listening to the WRGB TV from Albany, NY evening news and weather on 87.7 FM on the commute home in the car.