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Not to mention microwave ovens.
Somebody really needs to write a history about how a small chunk of unregulated spectrum set aside for microwaves ended up containing all the stuff we actually use.
Is the entire rest of the spectrum just camped? I think we're missing big chunks of 5ghz wifi spectrum because it was licensed to some satphone operator who never even used it(?)
Yeah, it’s pretty congested. There’s a ton of stuff we want to broadcast.
I was going to say that going higher in frequency is more expensive due to requiring faster sampling, but then I realized I don’t know the receiver architecture. Do they just down convert everything to baseband?
Either way, there’s definitely historical reasons to want those tasty lower frequencies.
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