[BC] Alternative reality

[Dana Puopolo]

Why not refarm 30-50 mHz as well? It's literally unused these days...or at
lease refarm 40-50 mHz and kick the few users there down 10 mHz. There's
plenty of space for those still left there in 30-40 mHz. Now you have either
32 or 22 mHz of spectrum. Granted, the 6 meter ham band sits between it, but
with digital radios, who cares? They can be programmed to simply skip over 6
meters. Require DRM  with software upgradeable codecs. If they use OGG, not
only will it sound good, it'd have no licensing fees-keeping the cost of both
the transmitters and raecivers down to a reasonable cost.

Also, there's no reason why channel 4 can't be refarmed as well...unless you
want to keep it clean for all the ATSC/NTSC converters that will be out
there.

If radio is to survive, we need REAL solutions that use forward thinking-NOT
the same one same ond we always seem to find...

The NAB is one of the big luddites here-all they want is the status quo-it's
time to blow them out of the equation and begin thinking "out of the box".

Unfortunately, so is the FCC...

-D


    As a listener only, I think it would be better if all AM stations 
would migrate to the TV channels 2 and 3, with FM and digital 
signals, like FM IBOC.
With large guard bands and many channels across the 12 MHz no two 
stations would need to use the same channel within 250 miles, it's 
not a waste of spectrum it's clean long distance listening.  (What 
will it be used for after 2-2009?)