The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology released a report March 30 showing that none of DTV receivers tested to determine their ability to reject interference from proposed TV-band devices using ...

My previous column introduced readers to a new parameter, third-order intermodulation (IM3), which is the sideband splatter from a DTV transmitter into both adjacent channels. This splatter is limited ...

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 ...

In July, the Media Bureau proposed rules governing low-power television stations to transition to digital. NPR filed a petition for reconsideration asking the FCC to clarify that LPTVs must protect ...

(By John Garziglia) The portion of the FCC’s new FM translator rules which allows an existing FM translator, upon a showing of interference, to apply to modify its facility to any channel in the same ...

Supporters of low-power FM (LPFM) radio won a victory on Friday when a federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit to stop the Federal Communications Commissions from protecting LPFM stations from full ...

(By John Garziglia) Late last week, the FCC Chairman released a draft proposed Report and Order that is scheduled to be considered at the May 9, 2019 Open Commission Meeting amending the FCC’s rules ...

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 ...

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 ...