> > I was wondering whether anyone else on the list has experienced this:
In North America, there have been a wide array of new Wireless LAN devices in the marketplace and some discussion as to the impact on radio enthusiasts. Unfortunately, there has been little regard as to the consequences of dumping a lot of this activity right in the middle of the shortwave bands, since, according to industry, there is nothing in those "wavebands" that anyone uses, other than amateur radio. As a person who works in the Computing and Network services division of a large University, I see an interesting push on from Industry to get everything wireless as soon as possible with little worry about security or potential interference issues. Perhaps most of us have heard of the activity called "war-chalking", in large cities, like London, England and Washington D.C., where people roam the business districts of these cities with their laptop and wireless ethernet receivers looking for free network connections. The fall-out for the average listening enthusiast is the ever increasing cacophony of digital noise that will pervade the broadcast bands, particularly in the U.S. of A. where bands are not really "allocated" but "bought" in auction by the highest bidder. In Victoria, B.C., Canada, one can cruise around in their car whilst tuning the medium-wave broadcast band and listen to variety of whoops and swoops as one passes through various neighborhoods. Progress is a wonderful thing! Colin Newell editor - espresso.ts.uvic.ca www.coffeecrew.com ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2003 will be out soon. Order it now! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/095358643X/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www2.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt