Tom, I'm afraid secondary allocations aren't worth nearly as much on the open market. What we need to worry about, and indeed are worrying about, is when they get around to auctioning spectrum where currently the primary allocation is federal and we are secondary. 73, Dave K1ZZ ________________________________________ From: arrl-odv [arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] on behalf of Frenaye, Tom, K1KI Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 10:37 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:24736] selling microwave bands If you've ever wondered what our spectrum is worth... http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-spectrum-aucti... KVCR is analog channel 24, from 530-536 MHz, and digital channel 26, from 542-548 MHz. So they will get $628.6m or about $52m per Mhz. Guess that means 430-450 Mhz would be worth $1.0B if it was all in the San Bernardino/Los Angeles market. So the FCC is buying the spectrum from broadcasters so the FCC can auction it. How can the FCC even think about paying broadcasters for frequencies? I thought that wasn't even possible... The broadcasters don't own the spectrum, it's all of ours! Can we sell a microwave band? We probably have a spare 100 MHz somewhere. -- Tom ===== e-mail: k1ki@arrl.org ARRL New England Division Director http://www.arrl.org/ Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box J, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444 _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv