[BC] DTV s on low band VHF channels...

[Bill Smith]

Land mobile radio is alive and doing VERY well on 30-50 MHz, 150-174 MHz,
450-512 MHz all across the country. The vast majority of Public Safety Radio
is below 500 MHz.

There has actually been a trend back to privately owned radio systems and
away from Commercial services such as Nextel.

Bill

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net]
 > On Behalf Of Robert Meuser
 > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:12 PM
 > To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
 > Subject: Re: [BC] DTV s on low band VHF channels...
 >
 > That was the original point of the thread. It was stated that those
 > channels were to go at auction for new business services.  I stated
 > those frequencies are useless for that, they are. In today's world
 > almost everything below about 5 or 6 hundred megs is useless for new
 > technologies other than broadcast.
 >
 > R
 >
 >
 > Dana Puopolo wrote:
 >
 > > Well, sure,
 > >
 > > The low VHF band has beeb replaced by UHF and 800 trunking and cell
 > > phones.
 > > The same thing has hapopened to the high VHF band.
 > >
 > > -D
 > >
 > > ------ Original Message ------
 > > Received: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:35:59 PM EDT
 > > From: Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net>
 > >
 > > But it is not commercially viable beyond broadcasting. Just look at how
 > > many business users are on the low VHF band.