NOAA Weather Radio is a good example of a "Free" radio Service we can all tune in to at about ~162.5 mHz or so. Comes complete with an emergency warning system that sets off an alarm in your radio to let you know the possibility of severe weather exists. > At 8:36 PM -0800 11/21/05, Ron Economos wrote: > >Amateur radio is not a good example. It most > >definitely requires a license and you can't use > >amateur radio to make money or use it to > >circumvent commercial services. > > > >Ron, amateur radio licensee W6RZ > > > > Good point. > > But the spectrum is at least available for use by those who are > willing to meet the minimum requirements for a license. Is there a > fee for using this spectrum other than the cost of the license? > > The real issue here is what technology is doing with respect to the > development of unlicensed services. The FCC proposal to allow sharing > of the TV spectrum by smart radios is a good example. > > And there is the very real issue of protecting incumbent services. > Remember the low power FM battles that took place a few years ago. > The full power radio broadcasters managed to stop the FCC in their > tracks, using the same old interference claims. > > They were right! Allowing new competitors in the radio spectrum had > the very real possibility of interfering with their profitability. > > Regards > Craig > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.