[BC] Wow, I wonder if y ou feel the same way about AM?

[Dana Puopolo]

The satellite radio people already do this in most urban areas. They have 6
mHz allotted to terrestrial transmitters. Most times when I'm driving around
(Los Angeles) and look, the ground based signal stregnth is over twice that of
the satellite one. Think about this-only 6 Mhz is needed for almost 100
stations of decent audio (or 200 channels of the crap they transmit now). Talk
about spectrum efficiency! Take about 6 Mhz of the 420 band from the Govt.
(they own all of the 300 mHz band-so they can spare a bit) and you can put
EVERY radio station in a market on there-and then some. 5-10 well placed cell
type transmitters can serve the entire market.

-D

From: Jim Seaman <james724_ at hotmail.com>

Jeff Glass writes:

 
Wow! There is another voice in the choir. I said as much two days ago, and
have been dodging rotten tomatoes.
 
It's all about convergence. The future belongs to digital, but it's not going
to be owned by our friends in Columbia marketing a proprietary system. The
future of digital broadcasting is going to be based on the same open standards
used in IT and telecom.
 
Jim Seaman