The FCC has issued an Erratum correcting an inadvertent modification of Section 73.3598 of the FCC rules in FCC 02-298, a Report and Order that, among other things, revised Broadcast Auxiliary Service (BAS) rules in Part 74 and conforming technical rules for the BAS, Cable Television Relay Service and Fixed Services in

The FCC released an Erratum to its Report and Order on Earth Stations on Vessels. Most of the changes involve corrections to the Table of Frequency Allocations in Section 2.106 of the FCC rules. For example, in Appendix B, page 52 of the Table of Frequency Allocations was revised by changing the heading from 3700-5650

In analog communications, error correction depends on the ability of humans "decoding" the sound or picture to separate the desired information from the noise. In digital communications, this function is accomplished through the use of forward error correction coding. Coding spreads out the data (in amplitude steps, ti

The FCC issued an Erratum correcting Report and Order FCC-05-70, which amended Parts 2, 25 and 73 of the FCC rules to implement decisions from the World Radiocommunications Conference in Geneva in 2003 (WRC-03). The most noticeable correction removed the 450.00 MHz to 450.25 MHz band from language regarding amateur r

TV station engineers should check the entries in the FCC's TV engineering database and if they find any errors notify Nai Tam at the FCC by this Friday, October 1. See RF Report for September 14 for a listing of the deadlines specified in the FCC's Second Report and Order on the DTV transition. NAB's TV TechCheck adv

At the recent Open Commission Meeting, the FCC adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing a new satellite broadcasting service for the United States using 17.3 GHz to 17.7 GHz for space-to-Earth and 24.75 GHz to 25.25 GHz for Earth-to-space communications. The FCC said , "The 17/24 GHz BSS service holds

Fremont, Calif.-based Digital Fountain said its patented DF Raptor technology has been made part of the DVB-H standard for content delivery services. The Digital Fountain press release said the technology "is an advanced and highly flexible type of FEC (forward error correction) that enables the efficient and error

The FCC has released the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NRPM) to maximize the use of the 3.65-3.70 GHz band and foster the introduction of new and advanced services. As reported in last week's RF Report , the NPRM proposes allowing the use of unlicensed fixed and mobile devices in the 3.65 GHz band. The NPRM address