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I'm fighting through a cold so granted my reading comprehension is way down but at least in my diminished state I was reading through that and was baffled ...

I'm sure the average reader who deals with broadcast signal electronics knows what's going on here but I just walked away from it confused. It looks like terrestrial broadcasters sending out time codes for triangulation?




I was amazed to not even find a Wikipedia article about BPS.


I'm guessing the long term vision is phones and cars will receive broadcast television because traditional TVs are usually pretty stationary objects?

It sounds like a hail mary. How many people use the fm radio transceivers in their smartphone?

Maybe it's a total re-imagining of what to do with high power terrestrial band broadcasting?


Or a way to try to preserve ownership of some spectrum. IMO it may follow the same route as HD Radio adoption.


I have that in my Hyundai Kona. It's fascinating to hear what's on those stations. I can't imagine simultaneous listenership numbers ever breaking 100.

Every time I show someone I first have to introduce the concept of it existing. And these are technical people.


quick, call in wiki support & take cover!




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