"tony sayer" wrote in message ...

I have to say that using 76 - 88 MHz for digital radio sounds like a
good idea. ANy objections? ;-)

gr, hwh


Well it has Low Band PMR in the UK so you'd have to shift that, not that
it has many users now but its new receivers for everyone.....
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Tony Sayer


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It's TV channel 6 in the US. This has been discussed to death, but there are
still many stations on channel 6, even after the shift to digital. Some are
also saying "use the low VHF TV band to expand cell phones, etc." but that
would be very problematic due to the physics of antenna construction. I
doubt that people want to go back to having whip antennas on their portable
phones. Personally, I think if they dropped the entire 54-88 MHz low VHF TV
band, they should give a section of it, maybe 2-4 MHz, over to a
license-free public "Free band" where amateur broadcasters (i.e. "pirates")
could legally broadcast. Sort of like what they did to the 11m Citizens
Band.