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Hi Misko and all,
Hey, it's nice to see a human on packet again! All those robots and Japanese
flowers haven't completely taken over after all.
First of all, since the FCC abandoned engineering and became a spectrum
auctioneer our bands above 30MHz have been under constant attack beginning
with the loss of 220-232MHz years ago. The attack is from commercial
interests and ongoing, lately it's the microwave bands cell phones and WiFi
want to gobble up. Thankfully BPL fell flat but the ARRL can crow all it
wants, those with any sense know it was because there weren't enough
subscibers to support it. Sometimes when money talks it speaks on our
behalf... sometimes.
Naturally the director of Motorola speaks on behalf of Motorola another
commercial interest chomping at the bit for the next spectrum auction. To
bring everybody outside the US up to speed, that "white space" vacated by TV
broadcasting has a good chunk already reallocated and auctioned off. When
700MHz was reallocated to public service an immediate migration began, mostly
police trunked systems since 800MHz already filled to the top. Now everybody
including myself needs to buy new scanners. (;->)
At the start 800MHz was a fiasco, the FCC in its infinite wisdom interleaved
public service with cell phone channels causing them to interfere with each
other. Both spent millions reengineering their systems. On the heels of this
waste of money came the light, the FCC assigned cell phones to one end of the
band and public service to the other called rebanding. AGAIN both spent
millions reengineering their systems, thank you FCC for (expletive deleted)
us over TWICE! Thankfully all I had to do to make my scanner keep up with it
was download and install a firmware upgrade.
Mucousroller... uh... Motorola BTW is quite the snake oil salesman conning
politicians who naturally don't know a thing about radio into buying things
they don't need and lying about encryption, secure radio systems. Some years
ago the FCC mandated (that) "all transmissions of a sensitive nature be
encrypted" and opened the door to Motorola's huge moneymaking venture. Now
many police radio systems are encryption capable, some use them wisely,
others are paranoid. In my local area there is one P25 digital system with
one channel reserved for watching the bad guys where they use encryption, the
dispatch channel and another are in the clear. Two others, one being the town
I live in uses full time encryption on all channels, they think the general
public that used to be their eyes and ears are the bad guys. Maybe they think
sending a unit out on a doughnut and coffee run is like rounding up dope
peddlers? That's where Mucousroller comes in, your police department MUST
HAVE a new encrypted digital radio system if they're to be effective. Yeah,
they were the Keystone Kops before they went encrypted and now they're
effective, so why then is the crime rate soaring? I can smell BS a mile away
in a hurricane and I'm choking on the stench!
Rant mode off AR/EX //
So why am I angry? The FCC made decryption by unauthorized parties illegal
which early on resulted in the prosecution of a good friend who BTW died of
cancer before the case came to court. That started it, what continues is no
scanner is capable of decryption so beginning a few years ago I can no longer
monitor the local yokels, a term for cops from back in my CB daze. WHY??? I
live in the third lowest crime area in the country! Oh, Mucousroller. On the
other hand just a few miles north Asbury Park made the FBI top 10 list this
year and kicked Camden to the curb taking the number 1 spot, the highest rate
of violent crime in New Jersey. Their police are 100% encrypted so sometimes
it's a good thing.
Oh, this is supposed to be about band reassignment but you just HAD to
mention Motorola now didn't you?! If you mention Micro$haft I'll tell Achmed
The Dead Terrorist and he Silence! I keel you! (;->)
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"New Jersey, the most American of all states. It has everything from
wilderness to the Mafia. All the great things and all the worst,
like Route 22."
Jean Shepherd K2ORS (SK) & WOR radio personality
73 de Warren
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