@F4JWJ
Jake Brodsky, AB3A comments on this section of pg 28: "okay, that's a blank check".

He also says "This proposal looks like a very big grab for a very small number of people with minimal benefit to the public. This proposal seems suspiciously lacking in detail"

from here: https://swling.com/blog/2023/07/shortwave-modernization-coalition-public-comment-period-on-new-proposal/

@F4JWJ - there may be none. I am not a broadcast engineer and really not qualified to say. I didn't claim there was any threat? The closest I came I think is: "Questions have been raised about possible interference and loss of spectrum."

Is a 20,000W transmitter at 10kH bandwidth going to bother you as it frequency skips around (to avoid interference)? Is the FCC (US) going to take some frequency away from amateurs to ensure it doesn't interfere?

This is why financial outfits in NYC were hiring physicists out of the labs and universities to work on better algorithms for this kind of automated trading 10 years ago and now they are looking for the next edge in micro-seconds. Its literally a hacking competition but with big monies and the battlefield appears to be in our back yard.

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The reason they want to do this is because these frequencies can provide lower latency than wired fiber links can and world finance is now running on automated trading platforms. The trading systems that can get their orders in first can make more money on a downturn or upswing in the markets than those who cannot.

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