[opendtv] Re: Google's Page: White spaces test was unfair
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:44:18 -0700
So, you're asking if a LICENSED device has rights over a squatter?
There is no such thing as squatter's rights in this field, aside from the CB
bands, and then only when you are actually talking.
Wireless mics are LICENSED, or authorized via special temporary
authorizations, and before you can apply for a license or STA, the specifics
must be coordinated with all applicable entities in the local area.
And, this is has been mentioned many times on this list, so this is
something ELSE that we go around in circles about, albeit with a day, week,
month, or year intervening.
You should care when you can't get a mandatory evacuation notice or
Emergency notice via your television set -- one that could save your life --
because a neighborhood kid is downloading porn and considers that to be more
important than your life, or his.
John Willkie
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De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Tom Barry
Enviado el: Friday, September 26, 2008 5:48 PM
Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Google's Page: White spaces test was unfair
I don't want to harp on this much since I don't have much knowledge of
wireless mike usage and also had no interest until now. But, aside from
squatters rights, do wireless mikes have any legal claim to the white
spaces over wireless something else? That is, why are they enough of an
issue they can dictate policy?
Should I care about them? Or are they just another issue created by the
broadcasters lobby as part of the spectrum monopoly game?
- Tom
Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
> Tom Barry wrote:
>
>> Are wireless microphones allowed to operate on the same frequencies
>> as local TV channels?
>
> Wouldn't work too well, because the broacast signal would soon overpower
> the mike's signal.
>
> The article was very confused. I don't know if Google was confused, or
> whether the author was confused. After re-reading it, I think both were.
>
> The risk to wireless mikes is that when they operate over a white space,
> the drunken fans in the stadium will be lighting up their little new
> toys. These new toys would be designed to detect broadcast channels in
> use by broadcasters, but might not so easily auto-detect the much weaker
> signal from the mikes in the stadium, trying to operate over that unused
> frequency slice. So they could (and do, I gather) end up interfering
> with the mikes.
>
> This is similar to the problem these devices create in apartment
> buildings, for example. Where the white space device might be turned on
> in a small dead zone for a given TV signal, and we all know these do
> exist indoors, and end up obliterating the already weakened broadcaster
> signal in nearby apartments.
>
> I did the numbers. At 1 watt output supposedly to be allowed, this is a
> definite possibility.
>
> Bert
>
>
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