TR8 ENGINEERING COMMITTEE PRIVATE RADIO STANDARDS

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TR-8 ENGINEERING COMMITTEEPRIVATE RADIO
STANDARDS

• John Oblak

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TR-8 Engineering Committee

• Longest Standing of All TIA Committees
• Traces Activity to 1944
• Historically Involved in Standards for FM Land
  Mobile Radio Equipment
• Formulates Standards for the Private Radio
  Industry
• 13 Active Subcommittees and 1 Working Group
• Scope Has Expanded in Recent Years
• Newer Modulation Technologies
• Systems Related Standards
• Propagation and Interference

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TR-8 Subcommittees

• TR-8.1 Equipment Measurement Methods
• TR-8.3 Encryption
• TR-8.4 Vocoders
• TR-8.5 Signaling and Data Transmission
• TR-8.6 Equipment Performance Recommendations
• TR-8.10 Trunking and Conventional Control
• TR-8.12 Two-Slot TDMA Systems
• TR-8.14 Four-Slot TDMA Systems

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TR-8 Subcommittees (cont.)

• TR-8.11 Antennas
• TR-8.15 Common Air Interface
• TR-8.17 RF Exposure
• TR-8.18 Wireless Systems Interference and
  Coverage
• TR-8.19 Wireline Systems Interface
• TR-8.20 International Activities

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TR-8 Standards Activity

• FM Radio Equipment
• ANSI/EIA/TIA-603
• Standard for Analog FM or PM Radio Systems
• Linear Analog Modulation
• TSB-78
• Methods of Measurement and Performance
  Recommendations for Linear Modulation (ACSSB)
  Equipment

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TR-8 Standards Activity

• Antennas
• Revising Old Standards For
• Base Station Antennas
• Mobile Antennas
• Drafting New Standards For
• Digitized Antenna Pattern Presentation

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TR-8 Standards Activity

• Propagation and Interference
• TSB-88-A
• Radio Propagation
• Interference Analysis
• Frequency Coordination
• RF Exposure
• TSB-92
• RF Cabinet Emissions
• Drafting Mobile Installation Guidelines

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TR-8 Standards Activity

• Project 25
• TIA-102 Series
• Suite of Standards for Digital FDMA Systems
• 12 ANSI/TIA Standards
• 4 TIA Interim Standards
• 17 Telecommunications Systems Bulletins (TSB)
• Continuing Work in
• Upgrading from IS and TSB to ANSI Standards
• Phase II
• Additional Systems Interfaces
• 6.25 kHz Bandwidth

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TR-8 Standards Activity

• EDACS Standards
• TIA-69 Series
• Suite of Standards for EDACS Digital Radio
  Systems
• 4 Telecommunications Systems Bulletins
• 1 Interim Standard
• Continuing Work In
• Transceiver Methods of Measurement

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TR-8 Standards Activity

• Two-Slot TDMA Systems
• New Activity to Draft Standards for Project 25
  Phase II Two-Slot TDMA Systems
• Four-Slot TDMA Systems
• New Activity to Draft Standards for Project 25
  Phase II Four-Slot TDMA Systems
• Wideband Data
• New Activity to Draft Wideband Data Standards for
  700 MHz Public Safety Systems (Not PSPP)