The FCC Wireless Bureau is seeking comments on a waiver request b...
The FCC Wireless Bureau is seeking comments on a waiver request by Access Spectrum to deploy a land mobile base station in the Grade B contour of an analog broadcast station. Comments are due May 17, replies May 27.…
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Access Spectrum, which owns guard band spectrum at 700 MHz, sought a waiver for Sec. 27.60 of the FCC’s rules, which provide protection criteria for base, fixed, control and mobile transmitters operating at 698-764 MHz and 776-794 MHz to reduce potential interference to public reception of signals of existing TV and DTV stations on Channels 51-68. The rule also outlines protection criteria and methods for determining the minimum separation distance between a co-channel or adjacent channel land mobile station and a TV and DTV broadcast station. Access Spectrum submitted an application to the FCC in which it seeks to deploy a trunked land mobile base station in the Grade B contour of analog broadcast station KZJL, which operates on adjacent channel 61 in Houston. Access Spectrum submitted an engineering study that it said demonstrates that any possibility of interference to the off-air reception of KZJL is virtually non-existent. The FCC’s notice said the transmitting frequencies for Access Spectrum’s proposed base station are about 5.5 MHz removed from the lower channel edge of KZJL. Access Spectrum has argued this separation distance will result in sufficient protection to the reception of KZJL.