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The success story of radio and television was originally based on terrestrial transmission. At a suitable location a transmitter was erected that would broadcast radio and TV signals using corresponding equipment and antennas. The listener or viewer was expected to make a certain reception effort. In the case of television, he or she was to erect an antenna on top of the roof of the house with a sufficiently high directivity. Most of the stationary receivers were fed by correspondingly adopted antenna systems.
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DQPSK means Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying.
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There are different definitions of the term open standard. However, publication of all details of the standard accessible to anybody free of royalty fees are common elements of all definitions.
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DVB-T has been adopted by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as well. In the ITU world it is referred to as system B described in [ITU09].
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QPSK means Quadrature Phase Shift Keying whereas QAM stands for Quadrature Amplitude Modulation.
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ISDB-T has been adopted by the ITU as well. In the ITU world it is referred to as system C described in [ITU09].
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ATSC has been adopted by the ITU as well. In the ITU world, it is referred to as system A described in [ITU09].
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Beutler, R. (2012). Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting Systems. In: The Digital Dividend of Terrestrial Broadcasting. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1569-5_2
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