[Lowfer] bcb am

Dale Parfitt [email protected]
Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:33:59 -0400


Bill Ashlock wrote:

> Eric,
>
> >I've enjoyed listening to "am radio" since I was a child.
> >But as I was looking at that tonight I thought about what a HUGE hunk of
> >spectrum that band is. Seems as if _we_ could make better use of some of
> >it...if it were ours.
>
> Well look at OUR 30 kHz. You can't exactly say we use much of that with our
> huge group of.... say 15 (?) active operators needing a bandwidth of ~1 Hz
> each. There's room for 2,000 times that number of operators! Besides, low
> frequency has a lot of neat characteristics not found at 540 to 1700 kHz.
>
> Bill A
>

Are you calling Dex a "characteristic"?

Dale W4OP