Field tests found that increasing power levels for digital radio ...
Field tests found that increasing power levels for digital radio “would establish parity between digital and analog indoor and outdoor coverage,” a maker of HD Radio equipment told aides to FCC Commissioners Meredith Baker and Mignon Clyburn last week.…
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Class A stations would gain a greater benefit, increasing coverage as much as half, a handout from iBiquity said. A group of 18 broadcasters sought FCC approval to increase digital FM power to 10 times the current level. The area of “potential impact” to analog stations is outside the protected contour, the handout said. “Compromise proposals” would allow stations in the nonreserved band to raise power immediately but would maintain current limits in the reserved band until public radio completes additional tests. National Public Radio has been running tests, and it has asked the commission to wait until they ended before acting on the power-increase request (CD July 8 p11). Another compromise would set maximum levels at 6 dB “pending further consideration of a full 10 dB increase,” iBiquity said.