Charles W. Rhodes

Last month, this column introduced a scheme for allocating UHF band channels by analyzing a set of contiguous channels for a given community.

Last month we discussed the restrictions that the FCC must work under in repacking UHF broadcast spectrum.

The most amazing finding from the FCC tests of converter boxes is the number of such toxic channel pairs there are.

His trouble started suddenly one evening when he discovered interference across the high VHF band that he had never had before.

The FCC recently released details of how it will repack remaining TV spectrum in the UHF band.

The saga of the FCC Laboratories Report, “Interference Rejection Thresholds of Consumer Digital Television Receivers Available in 2005 and 2006” continues.

Our friend reminded us that the day we came was warm and sunny, and when it rains, that channel simply vanishes.

Since my article in the Oct. 19, 2005 issue of TV Technology, ("Developing a 24/7 Digital EAS System"), some real progress has been made by the FCC in the matter of the Emergency Alert System.

The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society celebrated its 75th anniversary at the International Conference on Consumer Electronics in January, along with the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The future is digital, 16:9 and gigantic. And I believe the future is now.

Now that the FCC has established its timetable for broadcasters to elect which channel to return, I believe these same broadcasters will seek to maximize their DTV facilities.

My previous column introduced readers to a new parameter, third-order intermodulation (IM3), which is the sideband splatter from a DTV transmitter into both adjacent channels.