Its not normally within the rules for an amateur service to compete with commercial services.
It may not be in the rules but there is no reason a private person should be prevented from doing so. The only reason the airwaves and radio transmissions were licensed was because big businesses, the mass media, wanted it that way. How many billions of dollars did the FCC ask for for the frequencies that were being freed with the switch to digital TV?
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Because amateur radio bands are narrow and would be quickly swamped by commercial traffic. If you want to piss somebody off by using their frequencies I suggest you co-opt analog TV channels.
On a different but related note I have a relative who, when he inspected a house he was buying would hide items which he wanted to own, then retrieve them after taking the place over.
... On a different but related note I have a relative who, when he inspected a house he was buying would hide items which he wanted to own, then retrieve them after taking the place over.
And by "own" you mean "steal." Nice relative you have, and apparently admire...
No I don't admire this particular individual. He is much richer than me though. I assume that stretching the rules, lying and cheating are key ways to accumulate money.
(What I would do if swapping to LED bulbs would be to put the bulbs I take out in a box somewhere and reinstate them when leaving.)
Yeah I would put cheap globes in too. On a different but related note I have a relative who, when he inspected a house he was buying would hide items which he wanted to own, then retrieve them after taking the place over.
Japan is a similarly isolated island country, and yet affordable 1 gbps connections are proliferating in urban areas.
Japan has many times the population density of Australia. Their telecommunication markets are not comparable. The Japanese are a race. They really do look to their own country for content. Australians exchange data with countries which have comparable cultures. Europe and the USA.
From what I've heard, ever since Telstra went private in 2006, they've been nothing but a nightmare for Australians
Nothing changed in 2006. Telstra/Telecom has always regarded their customers as the enemy. Back when Optus was starting up I preselected them for long distance. I called Telstra customer support with a question about my Telstra account for local calls. Their answer was that they couldn't answer the question because I has preselected Optus. In other words: you deal with the competition so STFU.
Old telstra people I know regard their employer as part of the federal government. By that argument dealing with the competition is just like dealing with another government.
unless you want a router located every 100 meters or so
But thats the thing. With cellular systems you can have a router every hundred metres. They are designed to scale that way. With wifi you can't do that because handoff from cell to cell isn't built into the protocol. So wide area wifi systems just crank up the power and run low on bandwidth.
AMPS was only decommissioned last year, right? That dates from the 80s, so 20 years seems reasonable.
Yeah but nobody had phones back then. We have had two or three generations of GSM since the system was installed. Now that the applications are in place infrastructure will have to follow, fast.
No. 3G is nowhere near enough bandwidth, and the "last mile" syndrome has been recreated: Too many 3G users sucking down bandwidth for the "AP" to be able to deliver it effectively.
The last mile will become the last 100 metres in areas of high demand.
Its being killed by 3G and the iPhone. Five years from now few people will bother with ADSL or cable to the home, so they won't route to wifi.
Laptops are starting to come on the market with 3G modems built in. Telcos are starting to install small cellular base stations close to their customers. Pretty soon I expect the telcos will be doing a lot of the networking which used to be done in house.
Yeah. I work in aerospace. In the ten years I have been with this company I have seen them pull their system apart and put it back together in a novel way three or four times. The motto in this industry seems to be "lets break it so we can get paid to fix it again".
True story. Back in the 1980s I took a hitch hiking trip around Tasmania. I had a lot of trouble getting back to Devonport to catch my flight home because the east coast of Tasmania is a bit of a redneck retirement village and nobody was picking up hitch hikers (damn greenies, etc).
So I was stuck in this little town but along comes this old VW van. They stop and offer me a ride. Remember the bar scene in Star Wars ep 4? There were six people in that van with hideous facial deformities. And you know what? They were the nicest people I met all day. Took me as far as they were going and gave me advice about the region.
Back in those days there were very few immigrants around in Tassie. Very different from Victoria. I have been back a few times in the last couple of years and I am happy to say the place is changing for the better.
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Its not normally within the rules for an amateur service to compete with commercial services.
It may not be in the rules but there is no reason a private person should be prevented from doing so. The only reason the airwaves and radio transmissions were licensed was because big businesses, the mass media, wanted it that way. How many billions of dollars did the FCC ask for for the frequencies that were being freed with the switch to digital TV?
Falcon
Because amateur radio bands are narrow and would be quickly swamped by commercial traffic. If you want to piss somebody off by using their frequencies I suggest you co-opt analog TV channels.
Its not normally within the rules for an amateur service to compete with commercial services.
If I did that there would be too much distraction to keep up with the schooling.
On a different but related note I have a relative who, when he inspected a house he was buying would hide items which he wanted to own, then retrieve them after taking the place over.
Isn't that called theft?
I certainly think so, but try proving it.
... On a different but related note I have a relative who, when he inspected a house he was buying would hide items which he wanted to own, then retrieve them after taking the place over.
And by "own" you mean "steal." Nice relative you have, and apparently admire...
No I don't admire this particular individual. He is much richer than me though. I assume that stretching the rules, lying and cheating are key ways to accumulate money.
Okay. 4.5 Hours.
Its normal to pulse LEDs at a couple of Khz. They are more efficient that way. Pulsing at 50 or 60 hz should present no problems. (INAEE either).
(What I would do if swapping to LED bulbs would be to put the bulbs I take out in a box somewhere and reinstate them when leaving.)
Yeah I would put cheap globes in too. On a different but related note I have a relative who, when he inspected a house he was buying would hide items which he wanted to own, then retrieve them after taking the place over.
Japan is a similarly isolated island country, and yet affordable 1 gbps connections are proliferating in urban areas.
Japan has many times the population density of Australia. Their telecommunication markets are not comparable. The Japanese are a race. They really do look to their own country for content. Australians exchange data with countries which have comparable cultures. Europe and the USA.
From what I've heard, ever since Telstra went private in 2006, they've been nothing but a nightmare for Australians
Nothing changed in 2006. Telstra/Telecom has always regarded their customers as the enemy. Back when Optus was starting up I preselected them for long distance. I called Telstra customer support with a question about my Telstra account for local calls. Their answer was that they couldn't answer the question because I has preselected Optus. In other words: you deal with the competition so STFU.
Old telstra people I know regard their employer as part of the federal government. By that argument dealing with the competition is just like dealing with another government.
But this is a micro payment thing. Effectively paying the news provider to take out the adverts.
So it wasn't the dingo, after all.
No dingos in NZ.
If its on youtube it won't be live. Perhaps they use a sat phone to do a daily upload.
unless you want a router located every 100 meters or so
But thats the thing. With cellular systems you can have a router every hundred metres. They are designed to scale that way. With wifi you can't do that because handoff from cell to cell isn't built into the protocol. So wide area wifi systems just crank up the power and run low on bandwidth.
What if you're on the subway and you want to play a song? You know, like 75% of all people do everyday on their way to and from work.
My bet is that it would be easier in Japan to make non-coverage maps, than coverage maps. And I reckon phones work perfectly in the subway.
AMPS was only decommissioned last year, right? That dates from the 80s, so 20 years seems reasonable.
Yeah but nobody had phones back then. We have had two or three generations of GSM since the system was installed. Now that the applications are in place infrastructure will have to follow, fast.
Will the USA move to metric at last?
Not in my lifetime, I am sure.
20 years from now other air protocols will seem like an anachronism.
That long?
No. 3G is nowhere near enough bandwidth, and the "last mile" syndrome has been recreated: Too many 3G users sucking down bandwidth for the "AP" to be able to deliver it effectively.
The last mile will become the last 100 metres in areas of high demand.
Its being killed by 3G and the iPhone. Five years from now few people will bother with ADSL or cable to the home, so they won't route to wifi.
Laptops are starting to come on the market with 3G modems built in. Telcos are starting to install small cellular base stations close to their customers. Pretty soon I expect the telcos will be doing a lot of the networking which used to be done in house.
Ah right.
Correct me if I am wrong but the National Weather Service isn't In Business for Money.
Yeah. I work in aerospace. In the ten years I have been with this company I have seen them pull their system apart and put it back together in a novel way three or four times. The motto in this industry seems to be "lets break it so we can get paid to fix it again".
True story. Back in the 1980s I took a hitch hiking trip around Tasmania. I had a lot of trouble getting back to Devonport to catch my flight home because the east coast of Tasmania is a bit of a redneck retirement village and nobody was picking up hitch hikers (damn greenies, etc).
So I was stuck in this little town but along comes this old VW van. They stop and offer me a ride. Remember the bar scene in Star Wars ep 4? There were six people in that van with hideous facial deformities. And you know what? They were the nicest people I met all day. Took me as far as they were going and gave me advice about the region.
Back in those days there were very few immigrants around in Tassie. Very different from Victoria. I have been back a few times in the last couple of years and I am happy to say the place is changing for the better.
I don't let my seven year old son use a calculator for his maths homework. I want him to learn how to do calculations on his own.