Protection ratios for ATSC digital TV receivers

Author

Rhodes, C.W. ; Gumm, L.F. ; Knight, S.P.

Volume

59

Issue

2

fYear

2013

fDate

May-13

Firstpage

303

Lastpage

309

Abstract

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) planned the DTV Service for the United States in 1996 based upon laboratory measurements of the prototype ATSC receiver, establishing Protection Ratios for Co-Channel Interference (CCI) and Adjacent Channel Interference (ACI). Based on the available data it concluded that the UHF Taboos for analog TV were not applicable to ATSC receivers. Charles Rhodes has previously reported on laboratory tests of ATSC commercially available receiving devices against multiple strong radio broadcast signals in the FM Band, 88- 108 MHz. The results of laboratory tests of ATSC receiver´s ability to reject interference from unwanted ATSC signals are reported.

Keywords

adjacent channel interference; cochannel interference; digital television; television receivers; ACI; ATSC digital TV receivers; ATSC receiving devices; CCI; DTV service; FCC; Federal Communications Commission; United States; adjacent channel interference; cochannel interference; frequency 88 MHz to 108 MHz; protection ratio; radio broadcast signals; Digital TV; Distortion; FCC; Interference; Radio frequency; Receivers; Tuners; ATSC Interference; ATSC ReceiverRobustness; DoubleConversion Tuners; RF Selectivity; Second and Third Order Non-LinearityDistortion Products; Single Conversion Tuners;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCE.2013.6531110

Filename

6531110