I'm not sure how broadband implimented (with encryption) over the lower VHF spectrum would effect devices like wireless mics. Those mics are usually analog and would be more easily effected by current TV signals.
Nik Moon -----Original Message----- >From: Don Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 3, 2008 12:26 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [cwelug] Re: Contact the FCC for rural broadband!!! > >Does this take into consideration other existing users of that space, such >as wireless microphone users? Lots of users out there with investments that >are small compared to a broadcaster, but large compared to most individuals. > >--Don Ellis > > >On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:23 PM, N Moon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> I am passing this along from MAIN.nc.us an organization involved with >> providing broadband access to rural areas in western North Carolina and >> eastern Tennessee. >> >> Dear Friends: >> >> The TV broadcasters are mounting a furious campaign to block the FCC >> vote next week on unlicensed use of the "white spaces" spectrum to >> solve the rural broadband problem. >> >> WE NEED YOUR HELP!! If the broadcasters succeed in blocking the FCC >> vote, now scheduled for Nov. 4, this issue is kicked to the new FCC >> under a new administration -- and the process starts all over again! >> >> The broadcasters have delayed this rulemaking for almost SIX YEARS! >> We can't let them delay a rural broadband solution any longer! >> >> The FCC's engineers reviewed the wireless technology and recommended >> approval for unlicensed use of the "white spaces" for rural broadband. >> This is not rocket science. The following link, for those of you >> with a technical bent, amply shows the how cautious the FCC >> was in its technical review. >> http://main.nc.us/whitespaces/files/good-enough-for-the-pentagon.pdf >> >> This isn't about technology. It's about the broadcasters protecting >> their turf -- our public airwaves. >> >> Since 1934, radio and TV broadcasters have had free use of the >> public airwaves. And now that we, the public, want to use our own >> airwaves to solve the rural broadband problem, the broadcasters go >> ballistic! >> >> These huge broadcast companies are the creation of Wall Street, and >> the same corruption and greed that we have seen with the financial >> meltdown is furiously at work today on Capitol Hill. >> >> Please email and call each Commissioner of the FCC below. Thank >> them for their due diligence, and request that they NOT cave-in to >> the broadcasters' political muscle. LET THE FCC VOTE!! Please >> email and call. >> >> Please email: >> >> Chairman Kevin J. Martin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (202) 418-1000 >> >> Commissioner Michael J. Copps: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (202) 418-2000 >> >> Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (202) 418-2300 >> >> Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (202) 418-2500 >> >> Commissioner Robert McDowell: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (202) 418-2200 >> >> Also, you can find out more about this issue at: >> >> http://www.main.nc.us/whitespaces >> >> We can win this, and solve our rural broadband problem!! >> >> Wally Bowen >> Executive Director >> >> Mountain Area Information Network >> 34 Wall Street, Suite 407 >> Asheville, NC 28801 >> local: 828-255-0182 ext 109 >> tollfree: 866-962-6246 >> >> >> > >> > >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
