Regional Workshop on planning of digital terrestrial broadcasting in relation to RRC-06 for CEE, CIS and Baltic States (Moscow, 21 –24 September 2004) Channel Potential Method The real story! P. N. Hai Radiocommunication Bureau

Regional Workshop on planning of digital terrestrial broadcasting in relation to RRC-06 for CEE, CIS and Baltic States (Moscow, 21 –24 September 2004) Getting to know BRIFIC! P. N. Hai & N. Vassiliev Radiocommunication Bureau

Getting to know BRIFIC (terrestrial services) RRC Workshop for CEE, CIS and Baltic States, Moscow Sept 04 Outline What is BRIFIC (terrestrial services)? Hardware and software requirements Installation tips Software Let ’ s have a go! (try!)

Getting to know BRIFIC (terrestrial services) RRC Workshop for CEE, CIS and Baltic States, Moscow Sept 04 What is BRIFIC? service document in CD ‑ ROM format published once every two weeks by the Radiocommunication Bureau in accordance with provision Nos. RR20.2 to RR20.6 and No. RR20.15 of the Radio Regulations (see publication notice ).

Getting to know BRIFIC (terrestrial services) RRC Workshop for CEE, CIS and Baltic States, Moscow Sept 04 What does BRIFIC contain? The International Frequency List (IFL) (including all the frequencies prescribed for common use); The Terrestrial Plans annexed to the Regional Agreements;

Getting to know BRIFIC (terrestrial services) RRC Workshop for CEE, CIS and Baltic States, Moscow Sept 04 And more… The Special Sections associated with the Plans; Notices under treatment in accordance with Article 11; Notices submitted for modification of a frequency assignment or frequency allotment Plans.

Getting to know BRIFIC (terrestrial services) RRC Workshop for CEE, CIS and Baltic States, Moscow Sept 04 More bonuses… The TerRaQ program; used for query, display, exporting of the data, etc. The TerRaNV program which enables the preliminary validation of the electronic notices before submission to the Bureau; The latest version of the Preface in PDF format. The ITU Digitized World Map (IDWM).

Getting to know BRIFIC (terrestrial services) RRC Workshop for CEE, CIS and Baltic States, Moscow Sept 04 What is TerRaBase? Relational database Ingres format in BR system MSAccess on BRIFIC CD-ROM (terrabaseBeta.mdb)

Getting to know BRIFIC (terrestrial services) RRC Workshop for CEE, CIS and Baltic States, Moscow Sept 04 How TerRaBase organised? Three segments/portions FM/TV – VHF sound and VHF/UHF television LF/MF – sound in LF and MF bands FXM – Fixed and mobile services

Getting to know BRIFIC (terrestrial services) RRC Workshop for CEE, CIS and Baltic States, Moscow Sept 04 FM/TV portion Four (4) fragments ST61 GE84 GE89 NTFD_RR – MIFR Article 11

Getting to know BRIFIC (terrestrial services) RRC Workshop for CEE, CIS and Baltic States, Moscow Sept 04 LF/MF portion Three fragments GE75 RJ81 NTFD_RR

Getting to know BRIFIC (terrestrial services) RRC Workshop for CEE, CIS and Baltic States, Moscow Sept 04 FXM portion Eight (8) fragments AP25 AP26 AP27 Article 11 Article 9 Common frequencies GE85 M GE85 N

Getting to know BRIFIC (terrestrial services) RRC Workshop for CEE, CIS and Baltic States, Moscow Sept 04 System requirements Windows NT4 or higher, Windows 2000, or Windows XP Microsoft Access (Version 2000 or higher). 24 MB of memory (RAM), with 32 MB recommended a minimum of 3.5 GB of disk space

Getting to know BRIFIC (terrestrial services) RRC Workshop for CEE, CIS and Baltic States, Moscow Sept 04 Installation CD ‑ ROM reader configured for "Autorun“ put the BR IFIC CD ‑ ROM in the reader, and installation will begin automatically. not configured for "Autorun": 1. Insert the BR IFIC CD ‑ ROM into the reader. 2. Using Explorer, double-click on setup.exe in the main directory of the CD ‑ ROM. 3. Installation will then begin.

Getting to know BRIFIC (terrestrial services) RRC Workshop for CEE, CIS and Baltic States, Moscow Sept 04 Installation tips reboot before every BR IFIC installation! Not necessary but recommended. You should be logged on with the same Username that will be used with the data and programs to be installed it is not possible to use the installed programs with a different Username than used for the installation.

Getting to know BRIFIC (terrestrial services) RRC Workshop for CEE, CIS and Baltic States, Moscow Sept 04 What are installed? the software will be installed in this order: TerRaQ IDWM TerRaNV

Getting to know BRIFIC (terrestrial services) RRC Workshop for CEE, CIS and Baltic States, Moscow Sept 04 Ready to use! One last tip! Run TerRaQ first before executing TerRaNV because TerRaQ performs some additional initialization the first time that it is run

Getting to know BRIFIC (terrestrial services) RRC Workshop for CEE, CIS and Baltic States, Moscow Sept 04 Have a go…later!