Radio astronomers seeking open-spectrum national parks

Readers of Ars will undoubtedly be familiar with some of the battles over spectrum allocation for wireless devices and services. As the number of wireless devices and their bandwidth requirements continue an apparently inexorable climb, the fight over who should get which chunk of the radio spectrum has generally played out between big business and public interests. One group that hasn’t generally appeared to be taking part in the scrum is the science community, but that’s not for lack of interest—the radio spectrum is used for both astronomy and the monitoring of the environment on Earth.

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