https://www.rabbitears.info/kb/ 2026-04-30T18:17:23+00:00 https://www.rabbitears.info/kb/ https://www.rabbitears.info/kb/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2023-09-20T19:02:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rabbitears.info/kb/adjacent-channel_interference?rev=1695236539&do=diff Adjacent-Channel Interference When considering adjacent-channel interference with respect to station facilities and channel assignments, there isn't a distance requirement with respect to other stations, there's a population impacted requirement, which makes it hard to generalize. To understand it, it's worth taking a step back to understand how adjacent-channel interference works with digital TV. text/html 2025-07-20T11:18:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rabbitears.info/kb/atsc_3.0_receiver_specifications?rev=1753010298&do=diff ATSC 3.0 Receiver Specifications ---------- ADTH NextGen TV Box SOC: Amlogic S905Y4-B CPU: ARM Cortex-A35 (4-cores; 64-bit; max core speed 2 GHz (?)) GPU: Mali-G31 MP2 RAM: 2GB DDR(?) Storage: 8GB EMMC OS: Android 11 (32-bit) Sources: * text/html 2026-04-19T11:20:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rabbitears.info/kb/building_permit_links?rev=1776597613&do=diff Building Permit Links This is a list of links I've found in the course of attempting to locate permits for cell towers. These links could change without notice. Note that not all available counties on this site are listed here: <https://www.mygovernmentonline.org/permits/> Alabama Alaska text/html 2026-03-11T09:44:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rabbitears.info/kb/capturing_3.0_data?rev=1773222258&do=diff Capturing 3.0 Data To capture 3.0 data for RabbitEars, follow these steps. 1) On Windows, open HDHomeRun Config GUI and tune to your 3.0 station(s). On Linux, tune to the 3.0 station, then open a command line and run this command for the appropriate tuner number: hdhomerun_config <device_id> get /tuner0/plpinfo text/html 2024-02-17T20:18:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rabbitears.info/kb/channel_changes_for_full-service_stations?rev=1708201100&do=diff Channel Changes for Full-Service Stations Please note that it is advised to consult with a communications attorney and consulting engineer to verify your filings are all complete and meet all requirements, though people have done it in the past without such support. Additionally, the FCC sometimes freezes acceptance of such requests, though as of this writing in September 2023, it is accepting them at this time. text/html 2024-02-17T20:26:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rabbitears.info/kb/distributed_transmission_systems?rev=1708201569&do=diff Distributed Transmission Systems A Distributed Transmission System, or DTS, is a system where synchronized transmitters at multiple locations are used to transmit TV service. Another term for this type of operation is Single Frequency Network, or SFN, but the term found in the FCC's rules is DTS, so that is the term that will be used here. text/html 2025-10-10T14:47:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rabbitears.info/kb/hdhomerun_tui?rev=1760107671&do=diff HDHomeRun TUI The HDHomeRun Terminal User Interface is software written with the goal of providing an updated interface for Mac and Linux platforms that supports the latest ATSC 3.0 features the way the Windows HDHomeRun Config GUI does, and also include some additional functions that may be useful. text/html 2024-05-26T11:41:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rabbitears.info/kb/identifying_cellular_equipment?rev=1716723667&do=diff Identifying Cellular Equipment Not TV-related, but it turns out that identifying cellular equipment on a tower--to determine which carrier or carriers are present--is easier than one would think. Modern cellular equipment generally has a distinctive appearance such that it's generally pretty easy to tell carriers apart. text/html 2024-02-17T20:20:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rabbitears.info/kb/new_full-service_allotments?rev=1708201250&do=diff New Full-Service Allotments Please note that it is advised to consult with a communications attorney and consulting engineer to verify your filings are all complete and meet all requirements, though people have done it in the past without such support. Additionally, the FCC sometimes freezes acceptance of such requests, though as of this writing in September 2023, it is accepting them at this time. text/html 2026-03-07T13:12:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rabbitears.info/kb/render?rev=1772889179&do=diff RENDER RENDER, short for RabbitEars NextGen Data Evaluator and Reporter, is GPLv3 open-source software written to evaluate ATSC 3.0 signals and produce HTML Export files about them. To download the latest version of RENDER, see here: <https://www.rabbitears.info/dl/render/> To see output from RENDER as I'm working on it, see here: text/html 2025-07-11T17:55:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rabbitears.info/kb/tvstudy?rev=1752256506&do=diff TVStudy TVStudy is the software published by the FCC to both determine station coverage areas and populations served, and whether a proposed application is accessible. It is open-source software that runs on both Mac OS and Linux operating systems. text/html 2024-08-01T18:30:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rabbitears.info/kb/use_of_advanced_codecs_avc_or_hevc?rev=1722537009&do=diff Use of Advanced Codecs (AVC or HEVC) A frequent question on message boards these days is about what broadcasters can and cannot do with advanced codecs such as AVC (MPEG-4) or HEVC.