TETRA  |  2013-10-24

Comment Dates Set in 800 MHz TETRA Emission Mask NPRM

Source: The Critical Communications Review | Gert Jan Wolf editor

The NPRM also proposed to require equipment to have analog FM capability when operating on 800 MHz, VHF and UHF public-safety mutual-aid and interoperability channels.

Comments on the FCC’s notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on TETRA and other technologies complying with emission mask H when operating in the 800 MHz National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee (NPSPAC) band are due Nov. 14. Reply comments are due Nov. 29.


On Aug. 27, the commission released an NPRM in PS Docket No. 13-209 proposing to require digital technologies, including but not limited to TETRA-based technologies, to comply with emission mask H when operated at 806 - 809/851 - 854 MHz.

The NPRM also proposed to require equipment to have analog FM capability when operating on 800 MHz, VHF and UHF public-safety mutual-aid and interoperability channels. The NPRM set deadlines for filing comments and reply comments at 45 and 60 days after publication in the Federal Register. On Sept. 30, the noticed was published in the Federal Register.


Source: MCCresources