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Save our spectrum! (February 2007)

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ST
Stuart
Gavin Scott posted:
I really don't want the headache, to be honest, and I am a mere minnow in the great entertainment lake.


Awww.... Laughing Shocked Laughing Laughing
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
As a correction to my earlier post, in most cases you can squeeze up to 16 radios into that part of channel 68 which is free for use. There are other areas within 68 that you must licence to use. The use of those is dependant on whether they are already in use by someone like the emergency services (or other), and your location. Ofcom make those decisions.

The West End of London is packed with radio mics for example, and so the frequency space has to be rigorously controlled there. Some of our systems can detect parts of channel 68 which are permanently in use, although Ofcom are not obliged to tell us who is using them and for what.
PE
Pete Founding member
Gavin Scott posted:
Some of our systems can detect parts of channel 68 which are permanently in use


do they use magic?
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Hymagumba posted:
Gavin Scott posted:
Some of our systems can detect parts of channel 68 which are permanently in use


do they use magic?


It's a big part of it, yes.

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