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Australian Researchers Push Near-Broadband IP Over VHF

Posted by timothy on from the verified-horse-feathers dept.

Curmudgeon Rick writes "A research group at the Australian National University is getting symmetrical 250K bps at 20km, using "empty" 7MHz-wide broadcast TV allocations in the 45MHz band. Story here, project homepage here. Aim is to put some bandwidth out beyond the reach of the wires, where users are few and far between."

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  1. Won't Work by raisinets · · Score: 1, Troll

    As a transmission engineer, I can tell you this scheme will not work for long. Those frequency bands will soon be reserved for the HDTV spectrum, not to mention ultra wideband interference. J

  2. Re:Bad Joke by ScrewMaster · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nah ... the transceiver substation was run over by a flamin' herd of wild brumbies.

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