Spectrum Five continued to urge the FCC International Bureau to review...
Spectrum Five continued to urge the FCC International Bureau to review an order denying the satellite manufacturer’s application for serving the U.S. market from a 17/24 GHz broadcasting satellite service at 103 degrees west. DirecTV filed an opposition to the…
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review last month (CD July 23 p22). The DBS company claimed Spectrum Five’s application for a satellite operating in the same band and from the same frequencies as a DirecTV satellite would cause interference to the DirecTV satellite. Nothing in DirecTV’s oppositions “masks the reversible errors in the bureau’s order or the fundamental failure by DirecTV to comply with clearly delineated application requirements and unambiguous power levels,” Spectrum Five said in a reply (http://xrl.us/bnja99). DirecTV had an express obligation “to provide a technical showing to demonstrate that operation of its satellite at an offset location would cause no greater interference than operation at an on-grid location,” it said. But DirecTV’s “technical showings regarding compliance with off-set power levels literally consisted of no showing at all,” Spectrum Five added.