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NPR Labs PAD Applications incompatible with iBiquity v3 Importer software
NPR Labs has learned that the PAD applications provided free-of-charge to NPR Members are incompatible with iBiquity's version 3 Importer Software. NPR Labs is working with iBiquity to resolve the incompatibility and will publish revised PAD applications as soon as practicable.
 
NPR Labs Online Viewing Application
Announced at the 2008 Public Radio Engineering Conference, the NPR Labs Online Viewing Application (or NOVA) is a Google Maps mashup that lets users dynamically explore mapping and demographic data for PTFP-qualified transmitters.
The tool is now freely available for viewing, and is intended for anyone affiliated with a PTFP-qualified transmitter.
 
New Accessible Radio Publications
Click here To browse Radio Text Display Final Report: 3 Studies, Best Manufacturing Recommendations For Blind and Low Vision Users, Results from NPR Election Night '08 Captioned Radio Event, and see the NPR Labs' CONSOLIDATED REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION (RFI)
 
IBOC DAB Interference Maps and Population Reports for 49 Public Radio Stations
Click here to see the maps and learn more about them.
 
Digital Radio Coverage and Interference Analysis Study Now Available
NPR Labs has completed their DRCIA project - a monumental 18-month study projecting the consequences of interference between HD Radio and station analog broadcast signals, as well as HD Radio’s overall success in meeting coverage expectations and needs. Visit http://www.nprlabs.org/research/drcia to download the final report.
 
Research heading DRCIA PTFP PAD ACCESSIBLE RADIO

In July 2008, NPR Labs completed a monumental 18-month study projecting the consequences of interference between HD Radio and station analog broadcast signals, as well as HD Radio’s overall success in meeting coverage expectations and needs.

The CPB-funded study, “Digital Radio Coverage and Interference Analysis” (or “DR. CIA” for James Bond fans), produced the first field-validated HD Radio FM coverage prediction model, which allowed us to create – for the first time – maps showing what each station’s interference-limited coverage area would be if it were broadcasting in both analog and digital. The study also reached important conclusions about the effects of raising HD Radio’s current 1% power level to the 10% power level, a proposal that several commercial broadcast groups, the NAB and others have recommended to the FCC.

Download the executive summary
Download the full report

See the IBOC DAB Interference Maps and Population Reports for 49 Public Radio Stations here.


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