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October 31, 2011
Volume 5, Issue 22
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EWA Files Second TETRA Clarification Request
The FCC has stated that licensees required to migrate to narrowbanding need not require frequency coordination for license modifications that "only reduce authorized bandwidth." EWA agrees that is good policy. How that sound policy was translated by the FCC to accommodate those licensees who elect to transition systems to TETRA technology, however, is at best new calculus and not the same in any case. MORE |
Jobs Bill Supports Spectrum Use Fees
President Obama's "American Jobs Act" includes proposals for auctioning wireless spectrum, public safety broadband expansion, and expanding wireless broadband to 98% of all Americans within five years. To achieve that, the administration proposes to have federal government agencies auction their unused spectrum, use spectrum more efficiently, and convince TV broadcasters to engage in "voluntary incentive auctions." MORE
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Data Bursts in Trunked Systems? Harmful Interference?
Icom America (Icom) filed a request for clarification with the asking whether a "250 millisecond data burst from a control channel idle message would represent harmful interference?" In support of its request, Icom stated that "its data burst would not impact the analog signal and be barely discernable white noise." MORE
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Public Safety Rebanding Fears
APCO/IACP/IAFC have expressed their concerns about a recent FCC Order that suggested "in certain border area situations, Sprint's ESMR operations can be assigned channels with less than 1 MHz separation from channels to which public safety licensees are being rebanded." MORE
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White Space Database "Worked!" And that means ...
The FCC's Office of Engineering Technology announced last week that the testing of the first TV White Spaces database demonstrated that the database "worked." Ok, a couple definitions of "worked" include that a certain activity performed a function as intended or operated as expected. In this case, we suspect that the FCC's pronouncement presumably meant that the database accurately contained all incumbent facilities that are to be protected from white space devices. MORE
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They have started arriving at the FCC, requests for waiver of the FCC's narrowbanding rules. In this case, a number of public safety entities in the greater St. Louis, Missouri urban area, have requested the FCC to grant them a one-year narrowbanding extension to December 31, 2013. MORE
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Antenna Structures and Environmental Assessments
The FCC has extended the deadline for comments on the proposed modification of the Antenna Structure Registration Program (ASR EA Program) until November 2. MORE
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NATIONAL BROADBAND CORNER
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In another FCC-produced promotional broadband advertising piece entitled "New FCC Infographic - "Spec It Out!" - Illustrates Consumer Impact of Mobile Broadband Explosion and Potential Benefits of Voluntary Incentive Auctions on U.S. Job Creation, Economic Growth & Innovation", the public was referred to a link describing the need for additional broadband spectrum. MORE
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We own it! Why do you ask?
During a routine inspection of antenna structures in Los Angeles, California, the FCC noticed that P&Y Broadcasting had not properly updated ownership records of an antenna structure it purchased from AM radio station KMPC in 2008. MORE |
Responding to a complaint, Miami, Florida FCC enforcement agents used direction-finding techniques to locate the source of radio transmissions on 96.1 MHz. MORE |
Q: After we convert our radio system and licenses to 12.5 kHz narrowband use, do we keep the 25 kHz spectrum we were once authorized to use?
A: No. A license will keep the identical channel assignments, but will not be authorized to use spectrum no longer in use. If licensees need additional capacity, requests for additional narrowband channel assignments may be submitted.
Visit EWA's Narrowbanding FAQs for more answers to often raised narrowbanding questions. If you don't see your specific question, click on the "Send Us Your Narrowband Questions" link. |
Domer Communications
North Canton, OH
GE Corporate Environmental Programs
Pittsfield, MA
RF Industries
San Diego, CA
http://rfindustries.com
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