Coverage of the Five-County Miami Valley Region

The feasibility of connecting 19 outlying municipalities in the Miami Valley five-county area into a metropolitan cable network is examined. It is concluded that the use of supertrunk would permit inclusion of Tipp City, Breokvllle, and Germantown, because they lie within a mile or two of the nearest metropolitan cable distri. Carlisle also is dose, but its low populatio density makes it itable for inclusion in the forseeable future. For towns farther from the metropolitan area, the two leading possibilities are convetinal FM microwave equipment, which we assume is used within the metropolitian area as described in "System Designs for the Dayton Metropolitan Area," and the use of local dis on service (LD) microwave equipment now under development.