Anyone else having crashes on UHF39 (618Mhz) ?

[Rodders53]

618MHz is firmly in the TV spectrum, it shouldn't be in use for anything else.

Programme Making and Special Events (PMSE) use a lot of the (clear in the location) frequencies in the UHF TV broadcast spectrum; and always have.
Also licence-exempt white space devices (WSD) can use the entire 470-694 MHz band - they 'find' clear frequencies to work on AIUI.

See http://static.ofcom.org.uk/static/spectrum/map.html for the approved use of frequencies in the UK.

 

[Owen Smith]

Programme Making and Special Events (PMSE) use a lot of the (clear in the location) frequencies in the UHF TV broadcast spectrum; and always have.
Also licence-exempt white space devices (WSD) can use the entire 470-694 MHz band - they 'find' clear frequencies to work on AIUI.

See http://static.ofcom.org.uk/static/spectrum/map.html for the approved use of frequencies in the UK.

I know, and I've always felt it is dubious.

 

[prpr]

At least Ch. 69 was reserved for PMSE use only, and then you just had to compete with others similarly using that space, which rarely had annoyances unless somewhere 'busy' and you generally knew it was going to happen.
But the phone companies had that away in the first round, with 800 MHz clearance.

 

[Owen Smith]

At least Ch. 69 was reserved for PMSE use only, and then you just had to compete with others similarly using that space, which rarely had annoyances unless somewhere 'busy' and you generally knew it was going to happen.
But the phone companies had that away in the first round, with 800 MHz clearance.

The mobile industry ultimately wants the entire UHF TV spectrum, there will be nothing left for TV eventually. The UK is on weak ground because much of the rest of the world still broadcasts TV on VHF as well as UHF and VHF is arguably the more heavily used for TV. The mobile industry sees it as reasonable for it to have all the UHF TV spectrum and leave VHF (which isn't much good for mobile) for TV.