[Ground-station] Space Policy Directive 3

[Howie DeFelice]

This seems like a statement of a sound policy to me. I think we can expect increased requirements for amateur radio satellites to include:

  *   attitude determination and control
  *   propulsion or other means to allow orbit modification
  *   standardized remote identification in some form of transponder

Unintentional RF interference is a huge problem in commercial satellite that imposes maximum EIRP uplink density limits on off axis emissions and maximum downlink EIRP density limits. For some reason the FCC seems to think that spectrum sharing in C-band is a good idea in order to placate the 5G donor base. We have already unofficially lost the 3.4 GHz. ham band. If the 5G money can allow the FCC to make billions of dollars worth of satellites obsolete while they still have a decade of life left, they can desimate the entire amateur microwave spectrum in a single pen stroke.  It's time to make the FCC an independent non-government agency, if that's possible.


  *   Howie AB2S

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From: Ground-Station <ground-station-bounces at lists.openresearch.institute> on behalf of Bruce Perens via Ground-Station <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2018 10:36 PM
To: Douglas Quagliana
Cc: Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
Subject: Re: [Ground-station] Space Policy Directive 3

It makes sense to add text about satellite interference to our FCC comment, using this for justification.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018, 19:22 Douglas Quagliana <dquagliana at gmail.com<mailto:dquagliana at gmail.com>> wrote:

> (g)  Prevent Unintentional Radio Frequency Interference.  The
> Secretaries of Commerce and Transportation, in coordination
> with the Secretaries of State and Defense, the NASA
> Administrator, and the Director of National Intelligence,
> and in consultation with the Chairman of the FCC, shall
> coordinate to mitigate the risk of harmful interference
> and promptly address any harmful interference that may occur.

Does mean that somebody is finally going to do something
about those taxi drivers on the FM satellite uplinks?

Just wondering out loud,
Douglas KA2UPW/5


On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 7:03 PM, Bruce Perens via Ground-Station <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute<mailto:ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute>> wrote:
Here is the text the tweeter-in-chief signed today:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/space-policy-directive-3-national-space-traffic-management-policy/<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fpresidential-actions%2Fspace-policy-directive-3-national-space-traffic-management-policy%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C24f981600896445a26e608d5d58d97d3%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636649726461817631&sdata=7ShXwHEZ5R2%2B%2FSxdrGZgJgHIHnWOqvC68mUAhyhUq8k%3D&reserved=0>

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