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The stations are 6m. 26m is the total proposed cut, which also cuts atmospheric monitoring and more. This is a terrible idea. NIST is really, really useful.
by dgacmu 8y ago
The stations are 6m. 26m is the total proposed cut, which also cuts atmospheric monitoring and more. This is a terrible idea. NIST is really, really useful.
- exabrial 8y agoThanks for the correction, I guess I didn't read closely enough. I still think this could be replaced an ran somewhat reliably for less than $1m/year. Considering you can get a 27mhz cb radio for $10, making something with one or two nines of uptime shouldn't be very expensive.
- dgacmu 8y agoIt has to be able to reach the coasts from Colorado. The current one is a 70 kW transmitter. That's higher than the majority of commercial AM/FM radio broadcast stations. You do have to know your way around that stuff to not get cooked.