In a February report to Congress, the FCC recommended the elimination of the third-adjacent distance requirements that are currently holding back hundreds of low power FM (LPFM) applications. If ...

WASHINGTON—The Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC) and the FCC met on Oct. 22 to initiate discussions on what LMCC describes as “multiple incidents” of co-channel and adjacent channel ...

One of the hallmark missions of the FCC is to promote the use of the radio spectrum; the corollary is that it ends up being a traffic cop in order to eliminate interference, or perhaps reducing ...

WASHINGTON—Broadcasters have scored a victory in the debate with Microsoft over how the FCC should allow for more unlicensed broadband in the so-called white spaces between TV channels. The FCC had ...

Designing a radio system requires knowledge of some fundamental parameters to understand what will influence link performance and reliability. In Part 1, I have already discussed perhaps the most ...

Editor's Note: To view a PDF version of this article, click here. Wireless local-area network planners and consumers now have the option to choose between 2.4-GHz (802.11b) and 5-GHz (802.11a) ...