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 -----Mensaje original----- 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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.