When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Fig. 1: Desired-to-Undesired threshold of NTIA-approved digital-to-analog TV converter boxes ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...