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From: ge@dbf.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers)
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Subject: Re: Important Petition/Technology
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Date: 17 Apr 91 06:14:19 GMT
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alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) writes:

>>In article <1991Apr11.034720.26091@uncecs.edu> urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:
>>>[What band will be used?]
>They want to reallocate some military spectrum.  Getting FCC approcal
>for reallocation is, as Motorola will attest, difficult.  Since Motorola
>owns this spectrum, they don't have to worry about competing or
>incompatible products.

It will be even harder to get WARC or CEPT approval, as they are not likely
to look favourably upon allocating bandwidth for proprietary protocols.
Motorola owns this spectrum as long as they don't export the equipment.
Overhere Altair is not available as far as I know.

>>>Will it be the CB radio bands?
>Unlikely--way too much signal out there.

CB users are voters too. VERY unlikely, as # CB-users >> # AppleXXXNet users.
Only bands with predictable propagation can be used. Intercontinental CB
happens sometimes on a sunspot maximum. Same for other HF and VHF bands.
(((News flash: on monday our LAN went WAN)))
This is definitely an application for the > 1 GHz range.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to get Apple c.s. to negotiate a world-wide
frequency band or set of bands, and get a IEEE 802.x standard for it.
At least different types of equipment should use the same collision control
protocol so it all can operate on the same bands.

	Ge'
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