Why is My Heart Monitor Showing Beverly Hillbillies?

Just kidding but like the disaster that will be the DTV transition, it now appears that we have an issue with wireless health monitors. Now CNet paints a picture of possible problems. We don’t doubt that might be true. But CNet also paint a picture of a ‘woe is the hospital’ when in fact companies like GE Medical Systems knew that there would be a transition. They did not take advantage of the changeout. Heck there is even a channel space that has been designated for such systems for several years now.

What’s that old saying? Oh — “Bad planning on your part, does not constitute panic on mine.” Please get off the White Space mindset. Properly designed digital systems have tightly constrained spectrum use.

But this does point out that the whole transition will be a problem.