Radio Frequency Allocations and the DTV Transition

[Dick Nitelinger]

I've popped up a historical perspective of radio frequency allocations on my website. It can be accessed at:

http://www.milwaukee-horror-hosts.com/DTV_Transition.html

It looks at television allocations going back to the 1920s. The curent 6MHz channel bandwidths go back to the 1930s. I also look at some of the discussions that took place during WWII, the "freeze" of 1948, the subsequent move to UHF, UHF troubles, shifting channels 70-83 to land mobile, how the industry decided to fight land mobile's desire for more spectrum by bringing up the HDTV argument, subsequent digital standards promulgation, and how we got to the DTV transition on 17 February 2009.

It's not an article (I wouldn't go into all the detail in an article or presentation.), but rather provides a look at frequency/channel allocations and how they led up to the DTV transition.

Comments are always welcome here or by email.

- Dick :OnAir: