New Narrow Band Regulations for below 500 MHZ

F1118 · Post by **F1118** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 12:35 am

The Fire Dept in with got a letter about some sort of new fcc regulation pertaining to narrow band. can anyone give me some more info on this. the letter was an invitation to a meeting but didnt really go into any detail on what the new regulations are.

nmfire10 · Post by **nmfire10** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 3:49 am

Reference this thread: Narrow Band Ruling

I don't know what the letter or the meeting is about. But if I had to guess, it is probably an informational thing on what is to come in the future.

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 1:11 pm

Here are some links that might help:

http://www.apco911.org/frequency/narrowbandmandate.htm

http://www.ashevillecom.com/fccreport.htm

F1118 · Post by **F1118** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 3:28 pm

Thanks Guys...I have a better understanding of the regulations now.

Anthony

jp450 · Post by **jp450** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 6:24 pm

I read the article. It looked to be excerpts of the regulation. Is the VHF low band going to be effected by this too? Or is it just the VHF hi and UHF?

Cowthief · Post by **Cowthief** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 6:50 pm

Hello.

Not an issue, the FCC is going to reassign VHF low.
If you have a system on low band, it will stay, however at some point the government is going to take most of it.
The plan is to migrate all non government to 700MHz/900MHz, with band to expand as digital TV moves entirely to UHF.
This will free 54MHz to 72MHz, 76MHz to 88MHz and 174MHz to 216MHz.
As time allows, refarming of spectrum will occur.
Federal funds will not be available for legacy systems, so as time goes on, everyone will migrate to whatever is cooked up.

New Narrow Band Regulations for below 500 MHZ

New Narrow Band Regulations for below 500 MHZ

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