Fig. 1: Desired-to-Undesired threshold of NTIA-approved digital-to-analog TV converter boxes measured for a wide range of undesired signal powers. The yellow trace was computed based on the ...

The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) released a report late last month based on testing of DTV receivers to determine their interference rejection characteristics. The test, conducted by ...

In part one of our report on the FCC’s recent actions on LPFM issues, we wrote about the FCC decisions about what to do with pending FM translator applications that may have an impact on LPFM ...

There are a couple of interesting items in the LPFM language recently passed by Congress that merit a closer look. The interference remediation procedures are interesting. For LPFMs licensed at ...

The FCC adopted rules for the digital operation of FM radio stations (known as HD Radio or the Ibiquity In Band On Channel system - IBOC for short) in 2007 and allowed the Media Bureau to amend those ...

Adjacent-channel interference is interference to a receiver listening on a given channel from a transmission occurring on an adjacent channel. A cellular receiver must be designed to receive on all ...

The FCC should not ease its interference rules, even if those rules limit the number of low-power FM stations that can fit on the dial. That’s my conclusion after reading the reactions from the NAB ...

Designing a radio system requires knowledge of some fundamental parameters to understand what will influence link performance and reliability. In Part 1, I have already discussed perhaps the most ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rewritten Part 90 of the rules governing the operations of land mobile radio systems to reflect the narrowbanding changes. The Commission has also set ...

But interference from such devices, or from having too many devices on one wireless network, can have a strong impact. Diener said there are two common types of Wi-Fi interference: co-channel and ...