[opendtv] FCC Chairman Announces 'Engineers Forum' to Address NBP Technical Issues
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:21:35 -0500
Seems to me that the FCC's job includes knowing the answers to these questions.
Nice to convene a forum, I suppose, but it's not nice to be moving out on
initiatives, and issuing orders, without having the answers first.
Doug Lung mentions something rather worrisome about TV going more to VHF,
including low VHF. I hope they take into consideration the noise level down
there, and it's relationship to 15.x dB or C/N margin, before repeating the
fiasco of 12 June 2009.
Bert
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http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/99444
FCC Chairman Announces 'Engineers Forum' to Address NBP Technical Issues
by Doug Lung, 04.16.2010.
In his keynote at the NAB Show this week, FCC Chairman Juluis Genachowski said
it is a misconception that the National Broadband Plan will prevent
broadcasters from deploying mobile DTV. "Under the incentive plan, broadcasters
will be able to provide mobile DTV, both licensees that choose to retain all 6
megahertz and those that choose to share."
He made it clear that the incentive auctions are voluntary. "Participation is
up to the licensee and no one else." He said that "for the plan to work, we
don't need all, most, or even very many licensees to participate." He
anticipates mechanisms such as a setting a reserve price to lock in a minimum
payment for broadcasters.
In his remarks, Genachowski also announced that the FCC will convene an
"Engineers Forum" that will enlist broadcast, mobile and other engineers "to
address concrete technical issues raised by the plan and help develop the best
path forward." Similar efforts will involve business executives.
One of the first tasks for the Engineers Forum is likely to be reviewing plans
for a new DTV Allotment Table. From what I heard in discussions around NAB, the
FCC has, or will soon, start work on developing alternative DTV allotment
tables to determine the cost of clearing spectrum for wireless broadband and
the impact on broadcast coverage. Some, perhaps most, of the scenarios are
likely to involve moving DTV broadcasting to VHF channels, including low-band
VHF. Is it possible for low-band VHF to work with indoor receive antennas and
portable devices? If so, how much power will be needed to make it work? If not,
why not? I expect there will be a lot of discussion about that in the Engineers
Forum.
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