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...would probably not attract enough customers to wipe out local stations, the FCC says. One possible reason: the end of free radio. Like cable TV, digital radio comes at a price, currently projected at between $5 and $10 per month. Using a special radio equipped with a disc-shaped antenna, customers could select a package of channels dedicated to specific topics like weather, sports or opera, or receive up-to-the-minute stock quotes for their car radio. Despite the risk involved, four companies are ready to take the plunge. CD Radio of Washington, D.C., American Mobile Satellite Corp...
...Little Smart Talk 'n Tell $30; VTech; ages 3 to 6 Looking gratifyingly like Mom or Dad's cellular, complete with antenna and stand, this toy phone plays jaunty tunes while teaching children shapes and counting. Its special feature is that parents can program a phone number in their home, and the toy will repeat it to kids, ask them to dial it and learn...
...even a silent Pioneer 10 may someday effect a kind of communication with extraterrestrials. Attached to one of the spacecraft's antenna support struts is a plaque, designed by Drake and astronomer Carl Sagan, that is inscribed with symbols, binary numbers and drawings conveying what they hope is a universally understandable message. It locates the solar system, shows that Pioneer was launched from Earth and portrays a terrestrial man and woman...
...advantage of the new low-power personal communication systems over conventional cellular phones is that they are lighter and more versatile; the disadvantage is that they need more antenna sites, spaced more closely together. And in the competitive rush to get their pcs networks up and running, companies are cobbling together erector-set structures and slapping them down willy-nilly. "Pretty soon when we look out at a sunset," says Jacksonville, Florida, homeowner Suzanne Jenkins, "these towers will be what...
...build it? PrimeCo--which plunked down more than a billion dollars to license airwaves in 11 metropolitan areas--is in a hurry to start selling its services. And it is barred from more logical sites in Wheaton, Illinois, just next door, by a recently imposed six-month moratorium on antenna permits. So it zoomed in on our unincorporated neighborhood as a convenient, and vulnerable, target...