Posted on 06/10/2010 10:03:11 AM PDT by H8LIBERALS
Well put!
Or, they're writing it to make Christians look bad.
Or, it's the tiny minority of Christians who love to play the victim card.
Maybe they could start building sounding boards behind the pulpits again. :)
The 700 MHz spectrum (formerly UHF channels 52-68) was cordoned off by the F-CC as part of the transition to Digital TV.
This is spectrum which the F-CC auctioned off for mucho dinero (estimates were in the billions, but I don't think they ultimately sold for that much).
Countless starry-eyed (and for a while cash-rich) entrepeneurs jockeyed for this spectrum, in hopes of making a killing selling all those wonderful technolgies like Dick Tracy Wrist TVs to the teeming masses.
Is hasn't worked out exactly that way so far, but there are still some companies plugging away, trying to find the magic marketing concept that will make their dreams come true.
I didn't know that there were wireless microphones operating anywhere in that band. Interesting. The article makes it sound like churches, specifically, are being targeted. but of course that is nonsense.
Hmmm...I just checked. One of my wireless mics operates at the very top edge of the 700 MHz band. Maybe they'll come gunning for me.
“And if you sin, remember, you will bring down....” “Fire on Wilshire and Alameda.”
Ooops.
Actually, I do have a kind of similar story that happened to me about 10 years ago.
It was early on a Saturday morning in mid-December, and I was at a sparsely-attended funeral for a great-great aunt, or my grandma's cousin, or something like that (let's just say it was a funeral for a batty old relative I'd maybe talked to three times in my entire life).
At the same time as the funeral, the youth group was having a Christmas Party in the basement of the church, which served as the church hall.
Anyways, at the church we were in, the priest was using a wireless microphone. And the MC of the Christmas party downstairs was also using a wireless microphone.
They were set to the same channel.
Hilarity ensued. At least, up in the church it did. It was kind of funny having the Mass interrupted by Santa Claus's booming voice over the speakers.
Emergency personnel use this frequency and the FCC is trying to free up that band specifically for emergency services, but it has been used local organizations theaters, schools, conference centers, theme parks, churches.Other frequency are available.
This amounts to “eminent domain”. There is a very limited range of radio-spectrum “real estate” which is dolled out, registered, and sometimes reallocated just like frontier property. What used to be available for unregulated private use, but now that space is needed for legitimate public service. Users are welcome to “relocate” to other unregulated areas, and current market technology is already there.
There is no censorship involved here. It amounts to legitimate Constitutional taking for public use with suitable compensation of new unregulated free frequencies.
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