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Re: New metrolink PTC testing Along Orang Sub?
Author: Mark
Date: 05-19-2013 - 17:45
OldPoleBurner Wrote:
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> Eventually though, analog two way voice radio will
> cause its own demise; simply because the fierce
> competition for radio spectrum space, will make it
> too expensive to use so much space as analog
> requires.
There's no competition for the voice spectrum held by the railroads.
One broadcast television station alone is using 6 MHz of spectrum. All the railroad voice channels combined use up less than 2 MHz.
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> Eventually though, analog two way voice radio will
> cause its own demise; simply because the fierce
> competition for radio spectrum space, will make it
> too expensive to use so much space as analog
> requires.
There's no competition for the voice spectrum held by the railroads.
One broadcast television station alone is using 6 MHz of spectrum. All the railroad voice channels combined use up less than 2 MHz.
