FCC proposal to update satellite TX power limt which is 30 years old.

[N5XZS]

The FCC is looking into Ku and Ka bands for a changes on TX power levels since 30 years ago.

From Space News

Interesting story to read through!

Here's the link...

FCC moves to update satellite power limits amid push for adaptive regulations

The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to update decades-old satellite power limits amid broader efforts to modernize and streamline regulations, the new head of the U.S. agency’s space…

spacenews.com

 

[FTA4PA]

I found this comment in the article interesting:

"Our licensing system is a classic gatekeeper system," he told the conference, "and it was a system that was designed for an industry that maybe used to exist, and could tolerate it, but it's not tuned to the system or the industry that we have today."

Maybe used to exist!?

 

[Keith Brannen]

"NGSO operators want the caps adjusted for more flexibility to innovate" LOL!
In other words, "we want to blast our signal, who cares if it interferes with other in the same or adjacent bands, and we call it innovation! Let us do the same thing that 5G interference has done to C Band!"

 

[N5XZS]

Basically, means man up time!!