[Ground-station] Fwd: FCC news flash - special edition newsletter

[Michelle Thompson]

Draft comment in progress. Will need help from the list!

-Michelle W5NYV




On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 7:23 AM Howie DeFelice via Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> I wouldn't count on it. They are having no problem kicking the licensed
> primary users of the FSS C band satellite spectrum off. I doubt they will
> even consider the implications to ham radio. For the most part, Congress is
> not our friend here. Less than a million ham operators don't comprise a
> significant voting block or source of campaign donations.
>
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> I already knew that the earth-based ISM band would be taken by the
> cellular companies. They were already using it to boost their data speeds
> to customers even though they were not paying anything to use that band.
>
> What concerns me the most is whether the FCC will keep commercial signals
> off of our satellite up and downlink frequencies in the 5GHz band.
>
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