[digitalradio] TV Whitespace Testing

2008-01-20 Thread Rud Merriam
The FCC is doing testing for the use of broadband wireless in the space between TV channels. See http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2250638,00.asp. The challenge is kind of like BPL: preventing interference with any adjacent digital channels. From my reading, it looks like they are trying to

Re: [digitalradio] TV Whitespace Testing

2008-01-20 Thread kh6ty
, time and I don't remember exactly everything it was used for, but the idea is not new. 73, Skip KH6TY - Original Message - From: Rud Merriam [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 3:47 PM Subject: [digitalradio] TV Whitespace Testing The FCC

Re: [digitalradio] TV Whitespace Testing

2008-01-20 Thread Phil Barnett
On Sunday 20 January 2008 03:54:39 pm kh6ty wrote: I think it was also used for timing signals at one time. Seems that there used to be a way to pull down the top of the screen scan and see the information. That wasn't white space, that was the VITS. Vertical Interval Test Signal.