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I have a tangental RF question Once enough boomers die off, and the number of VHF TV watchers drops to near zero, what would this band be useful for, if reallo
by lmpdev 2y ago
I have a tangental RF question
Once enough boomers die off, and the number of VHF TV watchers drops to near zero, what would this band be useful for, if reallocated for a purpose or just unlicensed?
- isatty 2y agoMajor channels are UHF and it’s still a great way to watch national television (election coverage in recent past) and sports (particularly NFL) without having a cable connection. We should be pro OTA services not against.
- garbagewoman 2y agoThe election coverage was a great argument against free-to-air television
- transcriptase 2y agoWe could reclassify it as an amateur band so that a handful of other boomers can do everything except actually communicate anything meaningful aside from their call signs to each other.
- ac29 2y agoA lot of the VHF band is already used for fixed and/or land mobile wireless. Think stuff like voice communications, SCADA systems, etc. It wouldnt be too useful for high speed bidirectional communications though because the signals travel well and thus it would be difficult to pack stations densely.
- numpad0 2y agoYouTube Live OTA. Because broadcast is always a lot more efficient than peer-to-peer. They'll distribute genAI super-resolution decompression model over radio waves to Chromecast globally to cache so that actual "video" streaming only takes 8kbps of bandwidth at 32K resolution. Or they'll keep VHF TV on. I think the latter is arguably more useful.
- orev 2y agoOTA TV is even more important with streaming and cord cutting because it’s the only way to get access to information about live events such as weather emergencies.