Freescale Cuts The TV Cable

Frank Gentges fgentges at mindspring.com
Sun Jul 10 10:02:18 CDT 2005


I sure would like to get a UWB unit to see just how much interference 
the Freescale flavor of UWB generates to ham radio.  Is anybody aware of 
how we might get or procure one?

Frank K0BRA

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Andre Kesteloot wrote:

> Just when you thought that all the QRM was coming from DSL, here comes 
> a new source. André N4ICK
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> Consumer Electronics
> Freescale Cuts The TV Cable
> Arik Hesseldahl, 06.21.05, 9:35 AM ET
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> "You would slip a UWB device into a USB port on your PC, and it would 
> instantly become a wireless USB hub. Then you would connect another 
> device to the USB port on some other device, press a button to 
> associate them, and they connect wirelessly," Rofheart says. "There's 
> no need for any change in the PC."
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> Freescale's flavor of UWB is further along in its development, while 
> the WiMedia Alliance's preferred method has more industry support. 
> Last month, Intel demonstrated a wireless USB device at the spring 
> Intel Developer's Forum, which it had produced with *Alereon*, a 
> privately held wireless-chip startup based in Austin, Tex.
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