[HN Gopher] The United States Frequency Allocation Chart
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       The United States Frequency Allocation Chart
        
       Author : jonathanmkeegan
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2023-02-06 21:42 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.beautifulpublicdata.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.beautifulpublicdata.com)
        
       | EarthIsHome wrote:
       | Another fun, somewhat related poster from 1944: Chart of
       | Electromagnetic Radiations [0], and a "color-corrected" version
       | [1].
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       | [0]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/llnl/9403051123
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       | [1]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/acme-laboratories/31849902131
        
         | barbazoo wrote:
         | I love this chart and would like to print it. Can anyone gauge
         | if this is still somewhat current or if there's a better one?
        
       | user3939382 wrote:
       | The amount afforded to corporations vs unlicensed or amateur use
       | gives you a good picture of how the power dynamics work in our
       | "democracy"
       | https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
        
         | tptacek wrote:
         | https://www.chapman.edu/esi/wp/porter-smith-hazlett-radiospe...
        
         | pphysch wrote:
         | See also IP address allocation and DNS (TLD) allocation.
         | 
         | Hierarchy is something like:
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         | 1. US military/intelligence
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         | 2. Transnational corporations
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         | 3. Other large orgs/governments
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         | (distant) 4. People
        
         | dan-robertson wrote:
         | Most of the allocations seem quite reasonable, eg lots of
         | navigation, radio astronomy, etc, which don't seem particularly
         | corporate to me. I guess TV is corporate but there are a lot
         | more people who watch rev than listen to amateur radio.
         | Similarly people get pressure good use out of mobile phones.
         | Plausibly it would be good if more of the spectrum was
         | available for Wi-Fi.
         | 
         | I guess one question is: are the amateur/unlicensed uses that
         | are starved of bandwidth (Wi-Fi does strike me as something
         | that fits but is there anything else)?
        
       | TradingPlaces wrote:
       | Full charts:
       | https://ntia.gov/sites/default/files/publications/january_20...
        
       | IIAOPSW wrote:
       | I'm currently going through a bit of a transit map obsession, and
       | these frequency allocation charts just feel like they tickle the
       | same feeling. The way it codes information densely, into simple
       | colors, in easily understood ways. Even the part where it
       | distorts things slightly in order to depict them cleanly echos
       | the way subway and metro maps often fudge geographical features
       | to make their maps more readable. I wonder if there's anything
       | one of these diagrams can copy from the other. Maybe the radio
       | spectrum would make more sense if organized into "lines" of some
       | sort
        
       | jonathanmkeegan wrote:
       | This crazy, beautiful chart illustrates the incredible complexity
       | of managing one of our nation's most crucial - and invisible -
       | national assets: the radio spectrum.
        
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