FCC OET Updates TVStudy

V.1.27 adds capability to do pair-wise studies other than U.S.

Author:: Doug Lung
Publish date:: Aug 22, 2013

Less than a month after the FCC's Incentive Auction Task force released Version 1.2.6 of the TVStudy software for performing OET Bulletin 69 based coverage and interference studies, the software was updated to Version 1.27. The new version adds the capability to do pair-wise studies in countries other than the U.S., including cross-border studies of interference between U.S. and Canadian or Mexican stations on proxy channels. It also improves sorting of stations' records in the user interface. Bug fixes include fixing a potential issue that could cause spurious out-of-memory and SQL key errors.

New source code and Mac and 64-bit Linux executable files are included as well as an updated instruction manual, change long, and upgrade guide.

None of the many GB of data files are changed and need not be replaced. The new source code and executable files are available here.

Last Friday the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology released an update to the “TVStudy” software that it is considering for use in the incentive auction repacking to do the OET-69 coverage and interference analysis required by Congress's Spectrum Act

The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology has released a new version of TVStudy, Version 1.31

Robert Weller Leaves FCC, Joins NAB promo image

The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology’s latest version of its TVStudy software now includes an option to calculate distances to DTS stations as the shortest distance to any individual transmitter

The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology released TVStudy 1.30

Robert Weller Leaves FCC, Joins NAB promo image

TVStudy is the software the FCC proposes to use in connection with the planned repacking following the incentive auction.

The software will be used to perform interference analysis based on OET Bulletin No. 69.

Installing the FCC’s ‘TVStudy’ in 24 Easy Steps promo image

In early February, the FCC released “TVStudy” as a compiled program for Mac OS-X and as source code for other operating systems to illustrate how coverage and interference could be calculated for TV stations before and after Incentive Auction repacking.

Using TVStudy to Map Coverage, Interference promo image

In late April the FCC released an update that fixed a bug in the cell calculation routines that caused the program to crash on some stations discovered by David Fort. (WYDN using the “Global” cell option is one example.)