In Mexico, the adopted standard for Digital Terrestrial Television is ATSC (A/53), which uses
8-VSB modulation. In addition, ATSC M/H (A/153) is the standard for Mobile and Handheld
Television, which also uses 8-VSB but with several improvements in channel coding. Mexico
recently lived the analog to digital television transition, for this reason the performance of
some ATSC M/H commercial receivers was studied in this work. The objective of these
laboratory tests was to evaluate the performance of the receivers for different FEC�…

The Single Frequency Networks (SFN) are widely used in Digital Television transmission
networks due to the high spectral efficiency achieved by them. Digital modulation techniques
with a cyclic prefix, like OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) are adequate to
define and use SFN networks due to their ability to deal with the artificial multipath produced
in a SFN network. Nevertheless, the ATSC 1.0 and ATSC M/H standards use the VSB-8
modulation technique, which has no cyclic prefix, so it is very sensitive to multipath. The�…