[geeks] Free the airwaves

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: "james" <james at jdfogg.com>
" 
" 
" The TV bands are going to go to auction soon anyways. The
" digital broadcast change is moving TV into a much smaller
" single band (UHF, I think). So all that space is going to go
" to the highest bidder anyways.
" 
" TV has occupied some tasty bandwidth, including a chunk of
" the "low band" (60 Mhz). The low band has unique propagation
" characteristics that are appealing.

i thought so too, but i believe only vhf-lo [ch 2-6] is being
abandoned - for emergency services comm use.  that's the most
desirable part anyway.

when i checked my location with http://www.tvfool.com/modeling/ it
showed that ch 7-13 would continue after the transition.  several
stations in that range currently have uhf digital mirrors which will
move back down to vhf post-transition.  none of the ch 2-6 stations
are showing this.
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