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- From: andy@cbrown.claremont.edu
- Subject: Errata: CATV channel frequencies USA
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.183626.1@cbrown.claremont.edu>
- Lines: 71
- Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
- Organization: Harvey Mudd College
- Date: 29 Jul 92 18:36:26 PDT
-
- Alert reader eric@napa.Telebit.COM (Eric Smith) inquires:
-
- > Are the HRC and IRC frequencies you listed for 95 through 99
- > reversed? For all others, the IRC frequency is 1.25 MHz higher than
- > the HRC frequency.
- >
- > Cheers,
- > Eric
- >
- >> Common EIA STD IRC HRC Band
- >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > ...
- >> CATV A-7 5 05 79.25 78.00 LO
- >> CATV A-6 6 06 85.25 84.00 LO
- >> CATV A-5 95 91.25 90.00 91.25 MID
- >> CATV A-4 96 97.25 96.00 97.25 MID
- >> CATV A-3 97 103.25 102.00 103.25 MID
- >> CATV A-2 98 109.25 108.00 109.25 MID
- >> CATV A-1 99 115.25 114.00 115.25 MID
- >> CATV 7 07 175.25 175.25 174.00 HI
- >> CATV 8 08 181.25 181.25 180.00 HI
-
- Eric,
-
- Yup, you are right. Swap the IRC and HRC freqs for 95 through 99.
-
-
- Alert reader schmidt@auvax1.adelphi.edu (John H. Schmidt, P.E.) observes:
-
- > The FM Channels start at 200, in the FCC's numbering scheme. The bottom
- > Non-Commercial channel is channel 200, 87.9, allocated only for 10 watt
- > "secondary" stations who can find no other NCE frequency, and only on a
- > noninterference basis with channel 6 and other NCE stations, and finally, not
- > within 250 miles of the Canadian or Mexican borders. 88.1 is channel 201, not
- > 1, 88.3 202, etc. 87.9 (200) to 91.9 (219) are reserved for Non Commercial
- > Educational stations. Alaska also has some special rules due to grandfathered
- > "point-to-point" relay stations operating in part of the FM band
- >
- > This chart is generally very good, and should be made part of the FAQ for
- > either this group or rec.radio.shortwave.
- >>
- >> FM 1 88.10 FM
- >> FM 2 88.30 FM
- >> FM 3 88.50 FM
- >> FM 4 88.70 FM
- >> FM 5 88.90 FM
- >> FM 6 89.10 FM
- >> FM 7 89.30 FM
- [tedium omitted]
-
- Yup, right again. I also ran across this fact while looking up stuff for the
- previous erratum. Please note that the correction itself probably needs a small
- correction in that 91.9 is actually channel 220 not 219. John's message also
- adds data that was missing from mine, to wit: apparently there are 101 FM
- channels not just 100. Neither of the charts from which I cribbed this made
- mention of channel 200.
-
- John's comments bring up another point which is that "your milage may vary",
- and there are probably a lot of obscure facts about FCC regulations and
- matters of practice in the industry that are not represented here (of which
- John's illumination is but one good example). The apparently haphazard
- assignment of chunks of bandspace to TV channels is testament both to the
- evolution in fits and starts of spectrum usage and to many other arcane facts
- of engineering that might, for example, have caused a small bit of bandspace
- to be eschewed to avoid risk of interference with some other essential service.
-
- I will mail the corrected list to those who post corrections, and then in a few
- days either repost or post an anonymous FTP location.
-
- Andy Davenport
- Harvey Mudd College
-