Author: Laura Wilkinson

Advice on AIP spectrum fees for broadcasting

01/10/2016
Project
Client: Free TV, Australia
Author(s): Tim Miller, Yi Shen Chan, Phillipa Marks
Broadcasting Spectrum management

Free TV is an industry body in Australia which represents terrestrial television broadcasters.  Against the possibility of the regulator introducing AIP fees to broadcasting spectrum in Australia, Plum was commissioned to compile a report into the use of AIP for broadcasting in the UK, examining the arguments that had been presented for and against AIP[…]

Measurement of vegetation loss at 3.6 GHz

01/01/2016
Project
Author(s): Richard Rudd
Spectrum management Radio engineering

On behalf of a UK telecommunications operator, we made measurements of the attenuation due to the woodland surrounding a satellite Earth station. The measurements, at 3.6 GHz, made use of a specially-developed channel sounder. Measurements were made in both summer and winter, and the results have been incorporated in ITU-R Recommendation P.833.