Narrative Statement

0793-EX-CN-2019 Text Documents

StormQuant

2019-09-19ELS_238138

                                      StormQuant

                       Application for Experimental Authority
                     to Undertake Testing and Demonstrations

                                  Narrative Statement

Purpose of Experiment

StormQuant is developing commercial “fine grain” Doppler radar technology to provide
real-time monitoring of local weather conditions. StormQuant is dedicated to providing
access to real time, local HD weather information for underserved areas of the United
States including rural municipalities, small regional airports, ports, power companies,
energy companies, shipping and transportation companies, and first responders.

After obtaining the requisite FCC authorizations, including equipment authorization and
Part 90 licenses, StormQuant plans to build a private network using its Doppler IoT
radar sensors. StormQuant will own and operate each of the radar units, and deliver a
cost-effective subscription service using its big data platform.

Grant of experimental authority will allow StormQuant to test and demonstrate its
technology. StormQuant will test and demonstrate its weather radar to identify both
meteorological events (fog, drizzle, rain, hail, sleet, snow, tornados) and non-
meteorological events (wildfire smoke plumes, volcanic smoke plumes, bird/insect
migration).

Additional Technical Information

StormQuant has designed its weather radar to maximize compatibility with other radar
devices operating in the band, and to ensure that no harmful interference will occur to
operations in adjacent bands, by incorporating the following technical design elements:

 Pulsed: the duty cycle will be 0.02%, which is a 4 microsecond pulse. This low duty
  cycle will result in a very low average power level.

 Narrow bandwidth: the radar will use 3 MHz or less of bandwidth.

 Tunable: the radar is continuously tunable across the entire 9.3 – 9.5 GHz band.

 Filtering: the radar incorporates filtering components to suppress harmonics.

 Solid state transmitters: the radar uses solid state transmitters, which are inherently
   more stable and less noisy than traditional magnetron-based systems. Unlike
   current magnetron systems, solid state system do not “chirp” or use a significant
   amount of bandwidth due to magnetron instability.


StormQuant
Application for Experimental Authority
Testing and Demonstration of Weather Radar
Narrative Statement
September 2019
Page 2

 StormQuant will own and operate all of the radars in its network. This will ensure
  coordinated control over all nodes and enable a single point of contact.

 Beam Width: the transmit and receive antennas will operate with a beam width (at
  the half-power point) of 2.1 degrees.

Stop Buzzer POC

Kevin O. Shoemaker
Chief Science Officer
1431 Chaffee Drive, Suite 1
Titusville, FL 32780
Phone: 321-446-2961
E-mail: kevin@stormquant.com



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Document Modified: 2019-09-19 11:40:01

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