Maybe we could sell the AM Band to ATT or some other company. Let's see: 1710 - 530 == 1180 kHZ. Digital techniques can squeeze 60kb/s per 10 kHZ, so that would be 7000k total.
You could give 1 Mbit/s wireless internet to a whopping 7 customers per cell.
Try the internet. I listen to AM Liberal Talk radio from Chicago. http://www.streamingradioguide.com/ and a search for Rachel Maddow is how I originally discovered it.
IBOC/HD Radio vs. DRM - there's no real difference
(1) Both broadcast analog-and-digital side by side (2) Both are designed to transition to 100% digital broadcast at ~60 kbps on AM and ~250 kbps on FM. (3) Both cause interference with long distance stations ~100 miles away. Oh well. (4) Both will eliminate that problem when moved to 100% digital. .
IBOC/ HD Radio has one advantage that Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) does not have : Multiple programs. IBOC/HDR can broadcast 7 programs on a single station. For example my local station has Top40 hits on HD1, Dance music on HD2, 80s/90s on HD3, and a low quality traffic/weather channel on HD4. The DRM standard does not offer the same feature.
Yeah because the industry has no habit (RIAA) of trying to screw the consumers (ACTA) out of their money (overage fees) for the sake of profit (Apple & Microsoft) at the expense of choice (Comcast monopoly). You're right. Let's trust them.
/end sarcasm
How much range is 40 mW? What you're basically saying is my 1000-or-so neighbors would have to share (in this example) channels 43 and 48. That's abou4 40 Megabit divided by 1000 == not very fast.
The Whitespace Database claims these channels are "free" for my location but they are NOT free:
22 WNJS at 70 miles 27 WGTW (TBN48) at 50 miles 31 WPPX (ION61) at 50 miles 39 WLVT (PBS29) at 60 miles 44 WMCN (ind.44) at 70 miles 45 WOLF (FOX45) at 70 miles 49 WGAL (NBC8) at 45 miles 50 WNEP (ABC16) at 70 miles 50 WDCW (CW50) at 60 miles 51 WGAL (NBC8) at 10 miles
For most of these stations I don't care if the kid next door turns-on his iPad and starts broadcasting over top of them, but if he did over NBC-8 or ION-61 or TBN-48, then I would be pissed. I would lose 3 stations but a total of 10 channels - 25% of my current number!!! And it wouldn't be the kid's fault. It would be our incompetent Union government. A "cockup" indeed. .
It's basically an iPod but it's programmed by professional DJs. You pick a station you like (say 80s,90s,today) and then they download all the music to the portable player's hard drive. It plays back in a preset pattern just like an actual FM station, except you have the option to skip songs you don't like.
It's an MP3 player for people who enjoy Radio, and don't want to make playlists themselves. Instead the Program Director creates the playlist for you. I thought about joining myself but decided I'd just listen to AM, FM and HD Radio directly (it's free).
It does if your ISP limits you to 10 hours per month (netzero or juno). Others like AOL have a 4 hour per call limit and then disconnect you, unless you click a "stay connected" popup. (This can be defeated by killing the AOL bacground program, so you never get disconnected.)
You spin your words with the expertise of a "freedom fighter". I can easily imagine Bin Laden issuing this press release:
"Weren't no dead kids, and no one laughed [when the tower dropped]. There were some INJURED children but the blame lies on the American authorities, not us. As for refuting video evidence - few people seem to understand the evidence presented in the [9/11] video. Reuters had reporters EMBEDDED in those planes. Those armed men in the video had fired on [Arab] troops, only a few [months prior]. The [elite freedom fighters] were called in to deal with these people firing on [Arab] troops."
All I see is a lot of innocent people getting killed, both by Bin Laden and George Bush. I think they both should be charged with terrorism.
I didn't actually do the math, since I couldn't find the various bit rates quickly. Could you really fit 12 SD channels at the lowest ATSC resolution in the 6 MHz band?
You can fit as many channels as you want. Say you want to do 240p/24 video at dialup speed (50k), so that's over 300 channels. Unfortunately ATSC only counts to 99 so that's the arbitrary limit picked by the designers. That works out to 19000/99 == ~170k per program.
Most stations do 2-3 programs per channel. Trinity Broadcast Network does 5, and some stations in South California do 12 because they carry programs from Mexico, India, and other languages that cater to local immigrants.
Really? I'm able to get 7 Mbit/s. I guess it's one of the advantages of living in a "new" development just twenty years old.
768 isn't great, but it's still 15 times faster than the 45k Dialup my friend is stuck with. He'd be *thrilled* to have that speed, but the phone company doesn't offer it. I think the Congress should pass a law, immediately, requiring Telcos to provide DSL to all customers everywhere.
DSL can go upto ~200 Mbit/s according to the latest standards.
QUOTE THIS DEMOCRAT: Yeah, and you still vote Republican. And chant Teabagger....
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There you go insulting my gay friends again. Do you use the "N" word? Or "retard". You're basically saying Gays are inferior people and it is NOT acceptable So much for that open-mindedness you claim to have. And: Nope. Not since 1996 when I voted for Bob Dole. Thanks for playing though, but unfortunately you guessed wrong.
YEah because I'm poror and cna't afford to spend $2000 a year to get CATV like Wealthy youo mtoher fyuckerxs You stupid rich basrds sdon't cafre wobut anyone but yourselfves
Since I don't need wireless I'd probably just get the Broadband2Go USB dongle. It's the same $40/month for unlimited but costs about one hundred dollars less to buy
What do you do when there's a tornado or hurricane barreling towards you home? How do you keep up to date on the news/weather report? Internet isn't really viable (it's either hours out of date, or non-local).
Nature has given us the Air. It is the common property of all humankind. It is upon this basis that Clean Air laws were enacted (the natural right to breath non-poisonous atmosphere). Well airwaves are also part of that common property
I don't think it's too much for the People to demand that THEIR common property not "all" be sealed up behind corporate paywalls. Leave some of it -radio and tv- open access to everyone (like open source software).
Turn the entire broadcast spectrum into a cable-like system with return paths and on-demand channel assignments and you'll
Never be able to serve all 1/2 million homes per DMA (designated market area). 50 TV channels * 20 Mbit/s each / 500,000 homes == 2 kbit/s per home of internet connectivity.
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BUT:
Digital Radio Mondiale predates the more-recent Digital Rights Management acronym by about ten years.
Maybe we could sell the AM Band to ATT or some other company. Let's see: 1710 - 530 == 1180 kHZ. Digital techniques can squeeze 60kb/s per 10 kHZ, so that would be 7000k total.
You could give 1 Mbit/s wireless internet to a whopping 7 customers per cell.
Oooo.
Try the internet. I listen to AM Liberal Talk radio from Chicago. http://www.streamingradioguide.com/ and a search for Rachel Maddow is how I originally discovered it.
IBOC/HD Radio vs. DRM - there's no real difference
(1) Both broadcast analog-and-digital side by side
(2) Both are designed to transition to 100% digital broadcast at ~60 kbps on AM and ~250 kbps on FM.
(3) Both cause interference with long distance stations ~100 miles away. Oh well.
(4) Both will eliminate that problem when moved to 100% digital.
.
IBOC/ HD Radio has one advantage that Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) does not have : Multiple programs. IBOC/HDR can broadcast 7 programs on a single station. For example my local station has Top40 hits on HD1, Dance music on HD2, 80s/90s on HD3, and a low quality traffic/weather channel on HD4. The DRM standard does not offer the same feature.
Yeah because the industry has no habit (RIAA) of trying to screw the consumers (ACTA) out of their money (overage fees) for the sake of profit (Apple & Microsoft) at the expense of choice (Comcast monopoly). You're right. Let's trust them.
How much range is 40 mW? What you're basically saying is my 1000-or-so neighbors would have to share (in this example) channels 43 and 48. That's abou4 40 Megabit divided by 1000 == not very fast.
The Whitespace Database claims these channels are "free" for my location but they are NOT free:
22 WNJS at 70 miles
27 WGTW (TBN48) at 50 miles
31 WPPX (ION61) at 50 miles
39 WLVT (PBS29) at 60 miles
44 WMCN (ind.44) at 70 miles
45 WOLF (FOX45) at 70 miles
49 WGAL (NBC8) at 45 miles
50 WNEP (ABC16) at 70 miles
50 WDCW (CW50) at 60 miles
51 WGAL (NBC8) at 10 miles
For most of these stations I don't care if the kid next door turns-on his iPad and starts broadcasting over top of them, but if he did over NBC-8 or ION-61 or TBN-48, then I would be pissed. I would lose 3 stations but a total of 10 channels - 25% of my current number!!! And it wouldn't be the kid's fault. It would be our incompetent Union government. A "cockup" indeed.
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It's basically an iPod but it's programmed by professional DJs. You pick a station you like (say 80s,90s,today) and then they download all the music to the portable player's hard drive. It plays back in a preset pattern just like an actual FM station, except you have the option to skip songs you don't like.
It's an MP3 player for people who enjoy Radio, and don't want to make playlists themselves. Instead the Program Director creates the playlist for you. I thought about joining myself but decided I'd just listen to AM, FM and HD Radio directly (it's free).
http://www.slacker.com/
'Time' doesn't mean anything for online usage.
It does if your ISP limits you to 10 hours per month (netzero or juno). Others like AOL have a 4 hour per call limit and then disconnect you, unless you click a "stay connected" popup. (This can be defeated by killing the AOL bacground program, so you never get disconnected.)
Your numbers are out of date, and here's the latest from that website
Mbit/s
11 US/Russian Federation (tie)
10 E.U.
9 Canada
8 Australia
7 China
4 Brazil
3 Mexico
The other, limited plans only let you have 50 GB during peak hours.
The unlimited plan lets you have unlimited GB during peak hours.
That's the difference. Like some phone plans only let you have 50 minutes during peak; or you can get unlimited peak minutes.
You spin your words with the expertise of a "freedom fighter". I can easily imagine Bin Laden issuing this press release:
"Weren't no dead kids, and no one laughed [when the tower dropped]. There were some INJURED children but the blame lies on the American authorities, not us. As for refuting video evidence - few people seem to understand the evidence presented in the [9/11] video. Reuters had reporters EMBEDDED in those planes. Those armed men in the video had fired on [Arab] troops, only a few [months prior]. The [elite freedom fighters] were called in to deal with these people firing on [Arab] troops."
All I see is a lot of innocent people getting killed, both by Bin Laden and George Bush.
I think they both should be charged with terrorism.
I didn't actually do the math, since I couldn't find the various bit rates quickly. Could you really fit 12 SD channels at the lowest ATSC resolution in the 6 MHz band?
You can fit as many channels as you want. Say you want to do 240p/24 video at dialup speed (50k), so that's over 300 channels. Unfortunately ATSC only counts to 99 so that's the arbitrary limit picked by the designers. That works out to 19000/99 == ~170k per program.
Most stations do 2-3 programs per channel. Trinity Broadcast Network does 5, and some stations in South California do 12 because they carry programs from Mexico, India, and other languages that cater to local immigrants.
If we're not allowed to give credit to Commodore for the technologies it bought from others (6502, Amiga, etc)
then that means we can't give credit to Microsoft for..... well anything really. Likewise Apple deserves only about 1/4 the accolades it receives.
Really? I'm able to get 7 Mbit/s. I guess it's one of the advantages of living in a "new" development just twenty years old.
768 isn't great, but it's still 15 times faster than the 45k Dialup my friend is stuck with. He'd be *thrilled* to have that speed, but the phone company doesn't offer it. I think the Congress should pass a law, immediately, requiring Telcos to provide DSL to all customers everywhere.
DSL can go upto ~200 Mbit/s according to the latest standards.
Try http://www.getnetscape.com/ to see if they have any local numbers
QUOTE THIS DEMOCRAT: Yeah, and you still vote Republican. And chant Teabagger....
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There you go insulting my gay friends again. Do you use the "N" word? Or "retard". You're basically saying Gays are inferior people and it is NOT acceptable So much for that open-mindedness you claim to have. And: Nope. Not since 1996 when I voted for Bob Dole. Thanks for playing though, but unfortunately you guessed wrong.
YEah because I'm poror and cna't afford to spend $2000 a year to get CATV like Wealthy youo mtoher fyuckerxs You stupid rich basrds sdon't cafre wobut anyone but yourselfves
Rot ihj hell yuou selfsih self-cetneerwed SOB!~
ive a Damn for the poor just once in your life!
Damn pinko pro-corporation libertarian bastard
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Since I don't need wireless I'd probably just get the Broadband2Go USB dongle. It's the same $40/month for unlimited but costs about one hundred dollars less to buy
http://www.virginmobileusa.com/mobile-broadband/ovation-mc760.html
'nuff said
"femtocells -- devices which beef up 3G network strength in the home"
Never heard of these gadgets. Are they expensive? Large in size?
FIX:
$25 (300 minutes with unlimited texting AND WEB)
Cricket Broadband is only $40 a month, although not unlimited (high-speed changes to low-speed after 5 gigabytes).
VirginMobile offers cheap phone service for only $5 a month (25 minutes plus 20 cents each add'l minute) or $25 (300 minutes and unlimited texting).
For once Walmart is not the cheapest option.
What do you do when there's a tornado or hurricane barreling towards you home? How do you keep up to date on the news/weather report? Internet isn't really viable (it's either hours out of date, or non-local).
Nature has given us the Air. It is the common property of all humankind. It is upon this basis that Clean Air laws were enacted (the natural right to breath non-poisonous atmosphere). Well airwaves are also part of that common property
I don't think it's too much for the People to demand that THEIR common property not "all" be sealed up behind corporate paywalls. Leave some of it -radio and tv- open access to everyone (like open source software).
It went up to 20% in just this past year (since the analog shutoff) because of the bad economy and canceling CATV for Free TV.
Turn the entire broadcast spectrum into a cable-like system with return paths and on-demand channel assignments and you'll
Never be able to serve all 1/2 million homes per DMA (designated market area). 50 TV channels * 20 Mbit/s each / 500,000 homes == 2 kbit/s per home of internet connectivity.
It. Is. Impractical.