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Ham Radio Enthusiasts vs. High-Frequency Traders: A Battle for the Airwaves
The Wall Street Journal ^
| 05 Aug, 2023
| Alexander Osipovich
Posted on 08/09/2023 9:27:42 AM PDT by Theoria
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08/09/2023 9:27:42 AM PDT
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Theoria
To: Theoria
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08/09/2023 9:27:53 AM PDT
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Theoria
To: Theoria
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posted on
08/09/2023 9:28:45 AM PDT
by
Pajamajan
(Pray for our was nation. Never be slave in a new Socialist America)
To: Theoria
You don’t have to be an Einstein-level genius to figure out who’s going to get the short end of the stick in this battle!
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posted on
08/09/2023 9:30:35 AM PDT
by
jpl
("You are fake news.")
To: Theoria
Well, we know who will win this battle.........................
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posted on
08/09/2023 9:44:10 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Theoria
The problem isn’t just the fundamental frequencies involved, but data transmission will generate all kinds of interference in other frequencies because of harmonics and intermodulation distortion..................
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08/09/2023 9:46:01 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Money talks, citizens walk.
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posted on
08/09/2023 9:51:23 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Faux News: "We distort, you deride")
To: Theoria
Hay wall street. They invented this thing called fiber-optic. Look into it.
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posted on
08/09/2023 9:53:11 AM PDT
by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: Theoria
A group of high-frequency trading firms is asking the Federal Communications Commission to open shortwave frequencies to greater commercial use, so they can use radio to cheaply zip financial data around the world in milliseconds. Fixed it.
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posted on
08/09/2023 9:54:24 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Perhaps we should be less concerned with who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire.)
To: Theoria
Nobody is going to suffer the pain of keeping HF data circuits up instead of modern digital over fiber.
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posted on
08/09/2023 9:54:45 AM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Theoria
They wish to handle data related to trades just a silly millisecond sooner than the next guy...
HF radio is faster than ANY optical fiber network. The speed of HF electromagnetic waves will always beat optical fiber as the fiber material slows down the speed of light..
Electromagnetic waves travel fastest in vacuum, any medium will slow it down.
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posted on
08/09/2023 10:28:26 AM PDT
by
Bobalu
(I'm homesick for a country that no longer exists...)
To: Red Badger
Technical standards should be high, and can easily be met with modern digital transmitters. Some of the US shortwave stations broadcasting bible-thumpers like Brother Stair have had terribly poor signals with no action from the FCC. This started when FCC became staffed with more lawyers than engineers.
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posted on
08/09/2023 10:29:50 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(Q)
To: Theoria
A way to cut back on the way citizens can communicate.
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08/09/2023 11:54:53 AM PDT
by
BigFreakinToad
(Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
To: Theoria
"could ruin their hobby, which often involves tuning in to weak radio signals so they can chat with fellow hams in faraway places"
Fellas, let me introduce you to this little thing called THE INTERNET!.
To: Theoria
The internet not good enough for them?
To: BigFreakinToad
To: Theoria
You can have my ham radio bands when you pry them from my cold dead hands!!
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posted on
08/09/2023 12:13:36 PM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: z3n
“Hay wall street. They invented this thing called fiber-optic. Look into it.”
Believe me, they did that years ago. A company I worked for put in a point to point private fiber connection from a trading floor downtown to a data center near Aurora. 512 strands just for them. And that was just for backup. Too much latency to suit them.
Their primary link is a point to point microwave solution.
L
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posted on
08/09/2023 12:17:16 PM PDT
by
Lurker
( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: Theoria
Legally we’re limited to 1500 watts. I know hams that are capable of far more than that.
Hell, my Alpha 9500 loafs at 1500 and can do that all day long. It doesn’t take much to get it over 2k and into my Mosley TA33SR which is rated at 2500w (before modifications up to 5k, just to be safe) I’m not too worried about traders interfering with MY receive. They should be worried about theirs when we hams start pointing our beams their way and collectively interfering with theirs.
We all know the FCC doesn’t enforce jack sh#t, so not worried about a damn thing. They can’t possibly bust us all.
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posted on
08/09/2023 12:21:53 PM PDT
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usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: z3n
Routers create too much latency.
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posted on
08/09/2023 12:23:02 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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