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From: peting@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Mark Peting)
Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio.packet,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: low power license free packet?
Message-ID: <5607@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 1 Mar 88 17:25:56 GMT
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Reply-To: peting@cit-vax.UUCP (Mark Peting)
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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One solution for providing a packet band without taking anyone's spectrum
is to allow the use of any unused UHF television channel in an area.
Even in large cities there are hundreds of megahertz available for this.
Just make it clear that any channel can be taken away if needed for T.V.
If the packet modems were able to switch to any channel then it would
not be any trouble to go to a new channel, and anyone trying to send into
a T.V. channel would never key up since the channel would always be busy
with the T.V. signal.  Also since UHF is rather line of sight there 
shouldn't be much problem with interference with other cities that have
a different UHF assignment.

Mark Peting
Peting@csvax.caltech.edu