[opendtv] Re: Questions about DTT Transition and Channels 60-69
- From: Mark Aitken <maitken@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:56:16 -0400
TADA! Give that man a cigar!
I find it all very interesting ... having been the skunk at more than
one party, watching the current unfolding events proves to be most
entertaining in a very odd and twisted way.
I also wish to thank Mark Schubin for his pointed analysis based upon
his reading of the 9/11 Commissions findings...
In the case of 9/11, we DO have a document to which we can refer, the
9/11 Commission Report. They note, among other things, that the Port
Authority police had 16 channels available on their radios but used only
one and that the fire department needed to push two buttons to activate
repeaters installed in the World Trade Center after the 1993 attack but
pushed only one. There are other citations of human error but none I
could find regarding available spectrum or frequencies used. In fact,
the 9/11 Commission Report notes specifically that the radios that WERE
used that day operated in the UHF band, within less than an octave of
the frequencies that will be freed after the DTT transition.
Let us, as informed members of the public, try to disabuse others of the
notion that the DTT transition will solve the communications problems of
9/11 or Katrina.
I think EVERY rational individual is for public safety, and the need for
communications. It will be nice when the charades are over...
dgrimes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Or is the real answer that the DTT transition was not about Public Safety
>communications?
>
>(Please note that these are not sarcastic questions. I am interested in
>knowing what the politics and problems are. I apologize if this opens old
>wounds.)
>
>Dan Grimes
>
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Regards,
Mark A. Aitken
Director, Advanced Technology
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