ADVISORY OF DTV OPERATIONS TO MEDICAL AND HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
January 20, 2009
Station KGTF-DT will begin DTV television service from a site on Mt. Barrigada on or about February 8, 2009. We will be broadcasting on DTV Channel 12. We are notifying you because your facility may use biomedical telemetry devices that operate in the television broadcast band and may be affected when we begin our DTV service.
The rules of the Federal Communications Commission allow certain biomedical telemetry devices to use unoccupied DTV channels in their area on a secondary basis. This means that the medical facility or operator of the device is responsible for resolving any interference problems that may arise with the DTV service or, alternatively, must cease its operation on that channel.
The purpose of this notice is to provide you information and a reasonable opportunity to resolve problems. You may want to discuss this with your technology supplier if you believe that biomedical devices used in your facility are likely to malfunction when we begin our DTV operations. Our station’s new technical operating details are as follows:
TV Station: PBS Guam (KGTF)
DTV Channel: 12
Targeted on-air date: February 8, 2009
Effective Radiated Power: 54.7 kW
Antenna location: Mt. Barrigada (Barrigada Heights, Guam)
Antenna height: 47.9 m (157 feet)
If you want to report anticipated or actual interference problems to PBS Guam, please contact Mesengei Diaz, TV Engineer, at 734-3718 or via email at mdiaz@pbsguam.org . |