How do I find License Areas for a new EBS White Space Licenses? Tue, Jul 16, 2024

When the EBS Auction was held, auction participants had to negotiate a maze of licensing contours to determine the license area that they would receive with a successful bid.

This complexity increased when the FCC combined multiple channels (which likely have different contours) to form the wide band auction channels.  As a reminder, the subchannels of the C1 auction channel are pictured below.

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To determine the license areas for your white space channel deployment, you can use the Web Spectrum Viewer to see our understanding of each white space area.  Our white spaces areas have already remove the established 35 mile radius licenses and the Tribal licenses areas that were granted before the white space areas were created.

In the EBS Auction module, the license county is selected first in the EBSBRS Pops menu.  This view displays the population available in the white space area for each C1 auction channel.  Looking at the output for Bibb County, Alabama; we can see that 12, 173 people are in the license area for all of the A channels, and B channels.  The C channels don't have any people in the white space area so the auction winner cannot put towers or allow RF signals to propagate on the C channels in this county.

Clicking on the EBSA1 population cell reveals a white space license area map for the A1 channel.  The yellow white space contour can be saved either as a jpeg map or as a kml file for Google Earth.