[opendtv] Re: Interesting Point /broadcast definition
- From: Tony Neece <tonyneece@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:44:21 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Thak goodness for a bit of humor injected into this painfully dry subject!!
What is all this semantic jabber about?
It is very simple. For many decades broadcast in it's general use in
communications and even in farming has meant exactly that -- Cast Broadly.
It has been use in Teletype, Short-wave radio, and your Fax machine to mean
communication sent to multiple recipients at once, as opposed to point-to-point
communication. Loran is a broadcast. Radio navigation aids broadcast. You
will find statements in the Airman's Information Manual such as "Pilots must
listen to the ATIS Broadcast before contacting the Tower". This forum is a
broadcast. By convention of usage, and also legally defined in the FCC Rules
and Regulations, the term "Broadcast Station" has meant an AM Fm or Television
station licensed to operate in the legally defined "Broadcast Bands" of the
radio spectrum.
The term also applies to Satellite delivered television, as in DBS -- Direct
BROADCAST Satellite.
A 'ham" radio operator is broadcasting when he sends CQ. He is also
broadcasting when, as a net control operator, he sends inquiry or information
messages to the entire net. He is not broadcasting when he is in a
conversation with one or a few other hams, even though anyone with a short-wave
receiver might listen in. A ham may not legaly "broadcast" otherwise.
If one chooses to use the word either narrowly or more broadly one would not be
wrong as long as it is clear to the intended audience.
Tony
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