Spectrum Engineering

Abstract: Man-made radio noise measurements were conducted in a 1.16-MHz bandwidth at 112.5, 221.5, and 401 MHz at two residential and two business locations in the Boulder/Denver, Colorado, area. The measurement frequencies and bandwidth were selected using the results of a spectrum survey performed over the 104– 1060-MHz frequency range. The noise measurement data were collected as a complex baseband noise data record (consisting of six million in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) samples) every 10 minutes over a 24-hour period for each frequency and location.

Abstract: Reliable public safety communications between system repeaters outside a building and portable radios inside a building is often not possible due to building attenuation. To circumvent this problem, increasing numbers of municipalities are requiring building owners to provide in-building radio enhancement systems (IBRESs) for public safety communications. This report is intended to be used by public safety communications professionals who are tasked with assisting building owners to fulfill this requirement.

Abstract: NTIA/ITS has developed an improved electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) analysis method that can be applied to more accurately model real scenarios for evaluating interference. The methodology described in this report can be used to conduct EMC analyses for base stations that use a variety of antennas. The model can be used to determine the received power in the proximity of the base station at both the fundamental and harmonic frequencies. It uses accurate radio-wave propagation models and antenna models.