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WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO LEGACY BROADCAST BANDS WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT?
So in years to come, what will happen to these bands? We very much doubt they’ll become a free-for-all, as a badly made AM pirate spewing kilowatts of harmonics audible in the gigahertz is not a desirable outcome for anyone. Instead we’re guessing they’ll languish, forgotten by all but a few enthusiasts polishing their vintage Philco tabletop radios. It’s sad, because we could imagine a vibrant future for an AM band in a world where limited power unlicensed microbroadcast transmissions were legal. This is to some extent already the case in some parts of the world, but if that were to become a more general thing with permissible power in the region of a watt or two then we could see large numbers of short-range stations co-existing across the dial.
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WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO LEGACY BROADCAST BANDS WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT?
So in years to come, what will happen to these bands? We very much doubt they’ll become a free-for-all, as a badly made AM pirate spewing kilowatts of harmonics audible in the gigahertz is not a desirable outcome for anyone. Instead we’re guessing they’ll languish, forgotten by all but a few enthusiasts polishing their vintage Philco tabletop radios. It’s sad, because we could imagine a vibrant future for an AM band in a world where limited power unlicensed microbroadcast transmissions were legal. This is to some extent already the case in some parts of the world, but if that were to become a more general thing with permissible power in the region of a watt or two then we could see large numbers of short-range stations co-existing across the dial.
If a tree falls in the forest with no one around... Does it make a sound? Does anyone hear it? I would say in this case, by this point no one will be around to hear it, so "pirates" will not be driven to broadcast anything. And a few who do and cause issues for anyone will be treated the same as they do currently.
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