The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology and...
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology and the Media Bureau created a website where TV translators, low-power TV stations and Class As can update their input channel data in the Consolidated Database System (CDBS), said a public notice Wednesday…
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(http://bit.ly/17tUNqn). The site is https://apps.fcc.gov/oet/translator. Input channels for low-power stations can be properly protected from interference by TV white space devices only if they are correctly recorded in the CDBS, the notice said. “This facility is especially important for low power stations that are located outside of the service contours of the station(s) that they re-transmit.” Many full-power stations changed channels during the digital transition, and low-power stations re-transmitting them had to change their equipment, said the notice. “A significant number of those low power stations have not updated their input channels in the CDBS.”