Wireless Bureau OKs Dropping Positive Train Control Recon
The FCC Wireless Bureau tied up a loose end Monday, approving the 2016 docket 13-59 request by Cornerstone SMR and Comtran Associates to withdraw a petition seeking reconsideration of the 2015 order granting PTC-220 a waiver so it could provide…
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positive train control (see 1503130071). PTC-220 represents the nation’s seven Class I freight railroads and required a waiver of coordination requirements and power and antenna height limits for the 220-222 MHz band. The bureau's decision “does not make clear what technical criteria will guide a PTC-220 operator in the deployment of mobile units and what notification requirements are necessary to assure that mobile units do not produce spurious or out-of-band or adjacent channel interference to non-PTC-220 Operations,” Cornerstone and Comtran said in a 2015 petition.