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From: sewilco@datapg.DataPg.MN.ORG (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: low power license free packet?
Message-ID: <620@datapg.DataPg.MN.ORG>
Date: 14 Mar 88 01:00:08 GMT
References: <17327@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <1004@bcd-dyn.UUCP> <4726@ecsvax.UUCP> <5661@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <927@unccvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: sewilco@datapg.DataPg.MN.ORG (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
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In article <927@unccvax.UUCP> dya@unccvax.UUCP (Edison Carter) writes:
...
>      2) Allow the use of Channel 38, which is reserved for radio
>astronomy, for low power packet, except within 100 miles of established
>radio listening posts.
...

100 miles does not seem sufficient to ensure there will be no
interference with a transmitter a million times further away.
-- 
Scot E. Wilcoxon   sewilco@DataPg.MN.ORG   {amdahl|hpda}!bungia!datapg!sewilco
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