Exclusion zones set up to protect federal meteorological-satellite...
Exclusion zones set up to protect federal meteorological-satellite receive sites from interference, if the 1695-1710 MHz block is opened for sharing with industry, cover areas where about 10 percent of Americans live, said a report to be presented to the…
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Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee next week. CSMAC was divided into five working groups to look at spectrum sharing, a major theme of the Obama administration. One block expected to see early sharing is 1695-1710 MHz, the target of CSMAC Working Group 1. The report (http://1.usa.gov/11Ymajv) listed 27 sites requiring protection, where sharing would not be permitted or would be limited within a distance of as much as 98 kilometers. The protection zone around the Suitland, Md., earth station covers the biggest population, more than 3.1 million. Suitland is in Prince George’s County, Md., outside Washington, D.C. Earth stations in Miami and Sacramento, Calif., would require protection zones covering 1.5 million and 900,000 people, respectively, the report said. But the working group also said it’s examining a testing program “to demonstrate the viability and effectiveness of proposed protection/mitigation methods,” which would allow carriers to have some operations within the protection zones.