The FCC today released an order permitting significant power increases for the digital signals of FM broadcast stations:
…the Media Bureau … adopts changes in our digital audio broadcasting … rules to permit FM stations to voluntarily increase FM … digital … ERP … from the current maximum permissible level of one percent of authorized analog ERP … up to a maximum of ten percent of authorized FM analog ERP. In addition, we are implementing interference mitigation and remediation procedures to resolve promptly allegations of digital interference to an authorized full-service FM analog facility resulting from … this Order. …
Not all stations will be able to get the full 10-fold power increase. Text of the full Order is available here. --Dennis
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