🚀 go-pugleaf

One of the byproducts of community radio in the US is that there are a
lot of skilled radio engineers who are adept at making technical things
happen with little money. It might be a good idea to organize an
'Ingenieurs sans Frontiers' to respond to such emergencies. I volunteer
some of my time, but not to the organization part!

While the impetus for the Radio Agora action is almost certainly
political, the technical grounds they cited are equally believable.
55 MHz is in the middle of the NATO tactical band for ground and
security troops, not a clever place to put a studio-transmitter link.
If you can find out what frequency would be acceptable, it should be
possible to put something together in a matter of days that would
work. An RF engineer would need to know the nature of the terrain
between the two ends of the link (does line of sight exist, and if
not, by how much is it obstructed), what frequency and bandwidth
are permissible, and whether the link must carry stereo signals,
telemetry, or just one channel of audio.

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David Josephson / Josephson Engineering / San Jose CA / david@josephson.com