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FCC 73.616
Revised as of December 4, 2012
Goto Year:2011 |
2013
§ 73.616 Post-transition DTV station interference protection.
(a) Applications seeking facilities that will operate prior to the end
of the DTV transition must also comply with § 73.623.
(b) A petition to add a new channel to the post-transition DTV Table of
Allotments contained in § 73.622(i) of this subpart will not be
accepted unless it meets: the DTV-to-DTV geographic spacing
requirements of § 73.623(d) with respect to all existing DTV allotments
in the post-transition DTV Table; the principle community coverage
requirements of § 73.625(a); the Class A TV and digital Class A TV
protection requirements in paragraph (f) of this section; the land
mobile protection requirements of § 73.623(e); and the FM radio
protection requirement of § 73.623(f).
(c) The reference coordinates of a post-transition DTV allotment shall
be the authorized transmitter site, or, where such a transmitter site
is not available for use as a reference point, the coordinates as
designated in the FCC order creating or modifying the post-transition
DTV Table of Allotments.
(d) The protected facilities of a post-transition DTV allotment shall
be the facilities (effective radiated power, antenna height and antenna
directional radiation pattern, if any) authorized by a construction
permit or license, or, where such an authorization is not available for
establishing reference facilities, the facilities designated in the FCC
order creating or modifying the post-transition DTV Table of
Allotments.
(e) An application will not be accepted if it is predicted to cause
interference to more than an additional 0.5 percent of the population
served by another post-transition DTV station. For this purpose, the
population served by the station receiving additional interference does
not include portions of the population within the noise-limited service
contour of that station that are predicted to receive interference from
the post-transition DTV allotment facilities of the applicant or
portions of that population receiving masking interference from any
other station.
(1) For evaluating compliance with the requirements of this paragraph,
interference to populations served is to be predicted based on the 2000
census population data and otherwise according to the procedure set
forth in OET Bulletin No. 69: “Longley-Rice Methodology for Evaluating
TV Coverage and Interference” (February 6, 2004) (incorporated by
reference, see § 73.8000), including population served within service
areas determined in accordance with § 73.622(e), consideration of
whether F(50,10) undesired signals will exceed the following
desired-to-undesired (D/U) signal ratios, assumed use of a directional
receiving antenna, and use of the terrain dependent Longley-Rice
point-to-point propagation model. Applicants may request the use of a
cell size other than the default of 2.0 km per side, but only requests
for cell sizes of 1.0 km per side or 0.5 km per side will be
considered. The threshold levels at which interference is considered to
occur are:
(i) For co-channel stations, the D/U ratio is +15 dB. This value is
only valid at locations where the signal-to-noise ratio is 28 dB or
greater. At the edge of the noise-limited service area, where the
signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio is 16 dB, this value is +23 dB. At
locations where the S/N ratio is greater than 16 dB but less than 28
dB, D/U values are computed from the following formula:
D/U = 15+10log10 [1.0/(1.0−10−x/10 )]
Where x = S/N-15.19 (minimum signal to noise ratio)
(ii) For interference from a lower first-adjacent channel, the D/U
ratio is −28 dB.
(iii) For interference from an upper first-adjacent channel, the D/U
ratio is −26 dB.
(2) Due to the frequency spacing that exists between Channels 4 and 5,
between Channels 6 and 7, and between Channels 13 and 14, the minimum
adjacent channel technical criteria specified in this section shall not
be applicable to these pairs of channels (see § 73.603(a)).
(f) A petition to add a new channel to the post-transition DTV Table or
a post-transition DTV station application that proposes to expand its
allotted or authorized coverage area in any direction will not be
accepted if it is predicted to cause interference to a Class A TV
station or to a digital Class A TV station authorized pursuant to
subpart J of this part, within the protected contour defined in
§ 73.6010.
(1) Interference is predicted to occur if the ratio in dB of the field
strength of a Class A TV station at its protected contour to the field
strength resulting from the facilities proposed in the DTV application
(calculated using the appropriate F(50,10) chart from Figure 9a, 10a,
or 10c of § 73.699) fails to meet the D/U signal ratios for
“DTV-into-analog TV” specified in § 73.623(c)(2).
(2) Interference is predicted to occur if the ratio in dB of the field
strength of a digital Class A TV station at its protected contour to
the field strength resulting from the facilities proposed in the DTV
application (calculated using the appropriate F(50,10) chart from
Figure 9a, 10a, or 10c of § 73.699) fails to meet the D/U signal ratios
specified in paragraph (e) of this section.
(3) In support of a request for waiver of the interference protection
requirements of this section, an applicant for a post-transition DTV
broadcast station may make full use of terrain shielding and
Longley-Rice terrain dependent propagation methods to demonstrate that
the proposed facility would not be likely to cause interference to
Class A TV stations. Guidance on using the Longley-Rice methodology is
provided in OET Bulletin No. 69, which is available through the
Internet at http://www.fcc.gov/oet/info/documents/bulletins/#69 .
Note to § 73.616: When this rule was adopted, the filing freeze
announced in an August 2004 public notice (19 FCC Rcd 14810 (MB 2004))
remained in effect. For a short period of time after the filing freeze
is lifted, until a date to be announced by a Media Bureau public
notice, applicants must protect Appendix B facilities in addition to
any authorized facilities required to be protected pursuant to this
rule section.
[ 73 FR 5682 , Jan. 30, 2008]
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