You don't understand - The 2012 utltimate deadline for OTA was set as part of a major global communications treaty to re-align bandspace. The part the US got out of it was the opening up of commercial communcations equipment markets globally - now worth billions a year to US companies. In return, part of the deal is to vacate the VHF tv bands and re-align the UHF spectrum. No matter what anybody thinks or feel - May 31, 2012 all analog OTA will be gone.
The Arrow was cancelled because the Canadian and US Governments realized that the Soviet
Union had deeply penetrated Avro and, more importantly, the subcontractor company that had the Titanium fabrication technology to manifacture the Arrow's wingroot box. When the first mig-25 fell into western hands, they found that critical part was in fact, a direct development of that feature in the Arrow.
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You don't understand - The 2012 utltimate deadline for OTA was set as part of a major global communications treaty to re-align bandspace. The part the US got out of it was the opening up of commercial communcations equipment markets globally - now worth billions a year to US companies. In return, part of the deal is to vacate the VHF tv bands and re-align the UHF spectrum. No matter what anybody thinks or feel - May 31, 2012 all analog OTA will be gone.
The Arrow was cancelled because the Canadian and US Governments realized that the Soviet
Union had deeply penetrated Avro and, more importantly, the subcontractor company that
had the Titanium fabrication technology to manifacture the Arrow's wingroot box. When
the first mig-25 fell into western hands, they found that critical part was in fact, a
direct development of that feature in the Arrow.