White Spaces - WIFI

Bl8ckr0uter

The Next Billion Dollar Wireless Industry Has Officially Launched

This could be a cool little businesses to get into....

networker050184

Interesting. Thanks for the link.

veritas_libertas

Interesting. I wonder what portion of the old TV broadcast spectrum this is going to use. As an Amateur Radio operator, I'm unsure whether to be excited or nervous.

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A little more info: The White Spaces Coalition's plans for fast wireless broadband

I'm hoping this doesn't provide an enormous amount of interference for Amateur Radio.

erpadmin

veritas_libertas wrote: »

Interesting. I wonder what portion of the old TV broadcast spectrum this is going to use. As an Amateur Radio operator, I'm unsure whether to be excited or nervous.

HAM guys still exist?

If it weren't for BBSes (and later, of course, that thing called the Internet), I would have probably done this myself.

One of my favorite movies (corny, yes, but I like it) is Frequency.

veritas_libertas

erpadmin wrote: »

HAM guys still exist?

If it weren't for BBSes (and later, of course, that thing called the Internet), I would have probably done this myself.

One of my favorite movies (corny, yes, but I like it) is Frequency.

Yes, and our technology has advanced with the time as well. Here are a couple of examples:

A.P.R.S. (Automatic Packet Reporting System)

D-Star (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio)


Oh, there was thread back in April where members of TE announced themselves as Amateur Radio operators. I'm a proponent of Amateur Radio because I believe it can invaluable during an emergency.

JDMurray

erpadmin wrote: »

HAM guys still exist?

*AHEM!*

http://www.techexams.net/forums/off-topic/65329-amatuer-radio-operators.html

veritas_libertas

JDMurray wrote: »

*AHEM!*

http://www.techexams.net/forums/off-topic/65329-amatuer-radio-operators.html

I'm glad that you were able to link to that thread. Every time I copied it in, the link would wouldn't work.

JDMurray

veritas_libertas wrote: »

I'm hoping this doesn't provide an enormous amount of interference for Amateur Radio.

As I understand it, White Space is a reallocation of the now unused UHF TV bands for unlicensed Wi-Fi use. The UHF TV spectrum is above most amateur radio bands (<=70cm).

MentholMoose

Here's hoping anyone selling these devices or trying to build a large network with them has better luck than LightSquared. They did everything right... licensed their own spectrum, got the necessary government approvals, and started building out an LTE network, only to find that a few GPS devices were affected. Now, after years of work and billions spent, the project is at risk. One of their proposed workarounds is to not use all their spectrum, in effect adding additional whitespace between their network and GPS.
LightSquared Network Could Block GPS Devices, Report Says - WSJ.com
LightSquared Signals Still Interfere With GPS, U.S. Officials Say - WSJ.com
LightSquared Files Petition for Declaratory Ruling, Asks FCC to Confirm Its Rights as Spectrum Licensee

erpadmin

veritas_libertas wrote: »

Yes, and our technology has advanced with the time as well. Here are a couple of examples:

A.P.R.S. (Automatic Packet Reporting System)

D-Star (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio)


Oh, there was thread back in April where members of TE announced themselves as Amateur Radio operators. I'm a proponent of Amateur Radio because I believe it can invaluable during an emergency.

JDMurray wrote: »

*AHEM!*

http://www.techexams.net/forums/off-topic/65329-amatuer-radio-operators.html

I think that's awesome! I was always fascinated by HAM radios and folks talking to each other all around the world. I just figured that with how far technology progressed, I ASSumed that HAM wouldn't be needed anymore. (with the extraneous capitalization, I realize that I was quite wrong. )