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Consulting Services
The NPR Labs staff is ready to put its extensive broadcast technical knowledge – 100 years of combined experience – to work for you. NPR Labs offerings include:
- Engineering and research studies
NPR Labs provides engineering consulting services, including coverage and interference studies, FCC regulatory analysis, measurements of receivers and broadcast equipment, and field measurements of station facilities. We specialize in:
- Field-validated coverage studies and interference prediction models for FM radio and digital television
- FCC rule compliance test reports
- Lab measurements of consumer receivers
- Technical design of station facilities including STLs, translators, and boosters Drive-test measurements of FM and HD Radio® signals
- RF spectral analysis and emissions measurements
- Consumer perceptual testing
NPR Labs offers consumer perception studies that provide authoritative research in:
- Audio quality (MOS, dMOS, cMOS)
- Intelligibility, comprehension and memory retention
- Digital audio quality and codec performance
- Mobile and analog interference
- Surround sound performance
- Accessible interface design and analysis
- Tailored mapping projects and population counts
NPR Labs uses mapping software custom-developed by the Institute for Telecommunications Sciences, Boulder, Colorado, running on the ESRI ArcMap® GIS platform. This provides state-of-the-art signal propagation tools along with a highly flexible geographic information system.
- Customized technology assessments and testing
- Broadcast and audio exhibits
- Consulting engagements
NPR Labs was established on October 1, 2005 as America's only not-for-profit broadcast technology research and development center. Located in the heart of Washington, DC, at NPR headquarters, the Lab works daily on technical research projects supporting the interests of public radio stations across the country.
If you have a project that you'd like NPR Labs to work on, please contact us.
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