DIGITAL TV SWITCHOVER
The Government has decided that all analogue-modulated TV transmissions in the VHF and UHF broadcast bands, which include Channel 39, will close down in March 2015, or at some earlier date, and that the upper end of the UHF television band will be cleared of television, so that the vacated spectrum can be used for next-generation mobile communications.
One consequence of these decisions is that the existing television transmissions will need to convert to digital and be fitted into about half of the present spectrum, requiring that their transmission parameters need to be more closely defined than at present.
For the Amateur Television service this means that each Radio Licence for analogue-modulated TV, engineered to the standards specified in MED Public Information Brochure Number 38 (also known as PIB38 on the MED web site) needs to be replaced by a Spectrum Licence for analogue-modulated TV, expiring in March 2015, engineered to the much higher standards specified in MED Public Information Brochure Number 39 (also known as PIB39 on the MED web site).
As part of the process, the MED has cancelled all of the existing Radio Licences for Channel 39 TV Repeaters. Operators of Channel 39 TV Repeaters need to close them down to avoid receiving an Infringement Notice from the MED.
Operators wishing to operate their analogue-modulated Channel 39 TV repeaters, between now and the 2015 Digital TV Switch-Over, need to apply for a Spectrum Licence.
http://www.nzart.org.nz/infoline/2010/infoline-212.html
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