Row 44 - 5-06-2011 L

COMMENT submitted by Row 44 Inc.

Row 44 - Letter Comments 5-06-2011

2011-05-06

This document pretains to SES-LIC-20100805-00992 for License on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESLIC2010080500992_888384

BEFORE THE Federal Communications Commission WASHINGTON, DC 20554 In re: Application of ) ) Panasonic Avionics Corporation File Nos. SES-LIC-20100805-00992 ) SES-AMD-20100914-01163 For Authority to Construct and Operate an ) SES-AMD-20101115-01432 Aeronautical-Mobile Satellite Service Earth Station Network Operating in the Ku-Band ) Call Sign E100089 To: Chief, International Bureau CONSOLIDATED REPLY OF ROW 44, INC. TO PANASONIC AVIONICS’ RESPONSE AND PANASONIC AVIONICS’ NOVEMBER 15 AMENDMENT David S. Keir Lerman Senter PLLC 2000 K Street, NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20006 Tel. (202) 429-8970 December 1, 2010 Counsel to Row 44, Inc.

- ii - TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................... iii I. Introduction. ........................................................................................................................ 2 II. Panasonic Avionics Application Remains Incomplete in Several Key Respects. ............................................................................................................................. 4 A. Panasonic Avionics’ Effort to Incorporate by Reference the Prior Boeing Application for the MELCO Antenna is Faulty. ........................................ 4 1. Panasonic Avionics’ Application Fails to Comply With FCC Requirements. ............................................................................................. 4 2. Panasonic Avionics Ignores the Considerable Differences Between Boeing’s Licensed System and Its Own Proposal. ...................... 5 B. Panasonic Avionics’ Showing with Respect to Off-Axis EIRP Spectral Density along the GSO Arc is Incomplete................................................ 7 1. A Complete Set of Measured EIRP Spectral Density Patterns Is Required. ................................................................................................. 7 2. Measured EIRP Spectral Density Patterns Will Properly Take Into Account the Aging of the Antenna Equipment. .................................. 9 C. Panasonic Avionics’ Has Not Provided Antenna Gain Information Relative to Maximum Geographic Skew Conditions. .......................................... 10 D. Panasonic Avionics’ Application Contains Insufficient Information Concerning the Manner in Which It Maintains Pointing Accuracy to Avoid Interference to Adjacent Satellites. ............................................................ 11 1. Because Panasonic Avionics States That It Will Not Comply with the 0.2° Antenna Pointing Accuracy Requirement, It Must Demonstrate That It Will Not Exceed the Applicable Off-Axis EIRP Limits. .............................................................................. 11 2. The Applicant Must Describe How It Will Control Off-Axis EIRP To Prevent Harmful Interference When Antenna Mispoint Exceeds 0.2° Or When Harmful Interference Would Otherwise By Caused. ............................................................................... 14 E. It Remains Unclear Precisely What the Occupied Transmit Bandwidth Will Be for Panasonic Avionics’ Operating System............................................. 15 F. Panasonic Avionics Continues to Refuse to Provide Required Information Concerning Geographic Coverage of its Service. ............................. 17 III. In Light of the Omissions Outlined Above, The Commission Should Request Additional Information from Panasonic Avionics. ........................................................... 17 IV. Panasonic Avionics Procedural Arguments Are Misplaced and Fundamentally Inaccurate. ................................................................................................ 19 V. Conclusion. ....................................................................................................................... 22


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