Last month I described revisions the FCC was considering to its Longley-Rice model for evaluating coverage and interference. In it I noted that the commission was looking at a way to more accurately ...

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This month we look at the standards of FM allocation and interference. In essence there are two main sets of standards to consider when examining the FM band in total, with a third smaller hybrid set.

One of the hallmark missions of the FCC is to promote the use of the radio spectrum; the corollary is that it ends up being a traffic cop in order to eliminate interference, or perhaps reducing ...

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 ...

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 ...