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DoD Dreams of Efficient Spectrum Usage

Posted by michael on from the spectrum-spectrum-everywhere-and-nary-a-drop-to-drink dept.

Unstrung writes "US Military research agency DARPA is sick of all those static-filled cellphone calls and dropped connections too. The shadowy eggheads are working on a way of using the bandwidth available today more efficiently."

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  1. this just in... by red_five_standing_by · · Score: 5, Funny

    DoD reports that they have fortified the radio spectrum with "stuff" for more "goodness." They declined further comment.

  2. Doubt it. by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    After ten years active duty, and one in the Reserves, I can attest that the DOD has few, if any, dreams of efficiency. Keep trying.

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
    1. Re:Doubt it. by PD · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Let me shorten that down a bit for you:

      The efficiency isn't about money, it's about efficiently destroying the enemy, weighed against the expense of our own soldier's lives.

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      If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
  3. GSM by Zephy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why not just convert everything to GSM? it works fine for the rest of the world. You never get static (digital transmission), and the call drop rate is a lot lower than analogue

  4. Interference Problems by Detritus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Give me a couple of RDF (radio direction finding) stations and an 8" howitzer and I will eliminate all of your interference and congestion problems.

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    Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
  5. Re:frequency allocations by mz001b · · Score: 5, Informative

    this link seems to actually work: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.html