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Subject: [RFI] So you've got QRM?
From: Martin AA6E <aa6e@ewing.homedns.org>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:25:40 -0500
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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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