Today's New York Times:
>
> ...Vines says that even keeping track of friendly forces has been a
> problem. "Battle-tracking the Iraqi Army, Police, Special Police,
> Border Enforcement Forces and armed contractors moving around Iraq was
> difficult, but essential to preventing armed engagements between
> coalition forces," he writes.
>
> In the Iraq theater of operations, he writes, "we had more than 300
> different databases tracking friendly and enemy event data across all
> the warfighter functions." About 82,000 radio frequencies were used by
> U.S. military units, government agencies, coalition organizations and
> Iraqi security forces.
>
82,000? Let's see, times 10 kHz per channel... That's 820 MHz of spectrum?
We've got to get more reporters with ham licenses, who will ask the
right questions.
73 Martin AA6E
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