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- I may be the last person to aggregate this, but if you haven't seen it yet, consider: The Sun being eclipsed simultaneously by the Moon...and the ISS! Thanks to Bill Higgins for pointing it out. (Talk about having to set up a shot!!!)
- And for further astronomical boggle-fodder, consider this: A ten-year-old girl discovered a supernova a few days ago ( Read more... )
I have a hunch that the FCC wouldn't license such an application, but I could be wrong about that. More to the point, I'm not sure how many TVs still in service can pick up the full range of former UHF frequencies. Channels 70-83 have been gone since 1983, and channels 52-69 went away in 2009.
A national, low-power UHF TV broadcast network is an interesting idea, but I don't know whether it would be economically viable even if it went on the air. UHF has serious line-of-sight transmission issues (i.e., "big stuff in the way") and I doubt the picture quality would match the HDTV that everybody is getting used to at a gallop these days.
So whereas it's a neat idea, I'm guessing it would be an immense amount of work to perfect at those frequencies, for a service that isn't really in demand, given the preponderance of cable and satellite delivery of very high quality video programming.
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Thank 'ee. You're “a highly qualified source.”
Y' know, though, if the godless commies from outer space - or the Federal Emergency Management Authority - ever took over the good ol' USA, such a system might become the Voice of the Resistance, piggybacked onto the nationalized Federal Telephone and Television Administration equipment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGU-20
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