Attachment STA grant

This document pretains to SES-STA-20071029-01473 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

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E050332 SES—STA—20071029—01473 182007002562 CapRock Communications, Inc. Approved by OMB 3060—0678 APPLICATION FOR EARTH STATION SPECIAL TEMPORARY AUTHORITY APPLICANT INFORMATIONEnter a description of this application to identify it on the main menu: STA to increase EIRP of KerrMcGee Neptune 1. Applicant Name: CapRock Communications, Inc. Phone Number: 832—668—2751 DBA Name: Fax Number: 832—668—2780 Street: 4400 S. Sam Houston Parkway Ea E—Mail: esands@cprk.com City: Houston State: TX Country: USA Zipcode: 77048 — Attention: Ms. ElienAnn Sands 2. Graa "tase continsmeats / [30

2. Contact Name: Raul Magallanes Phone Number: 281 317 1397 Company: The Law Office ofRaul Fax Number: 281 271 8085 Magallanes, PLLC Street: PO Box 1213 E—Mail: info@rmtelecomlaw.com City: Houston State: TX Country: USA Zipcode: 77549 — Attention: Raul Magallanes Relationship: Legal Counsel (If your application is related to an application filed with the Commission, entereither the file numberor the IB Submission ID of the related application. Please enter onlyone.) 3. Reference File Number SESLIC2005111101554 or Submission ID 4a. Is a fee submitted with this application? © If Yes, complete and attach FCC Form 159. If No, indicate reason for fee exemption (see 47 C.ER.Section L.1114). C) Governmental Entity O Noncommercial educational licensee C Other(please explain): 4b. Fee Classification CGX — Fixed Satellite Transmit/Receive Earth Station 5. Type Request @ Use Prior to Grant C Change Station Location O Other 6. Requested Use Prior Date 11/07/2007

7. CityGulf of Mexico 8. Latitude (dd mmss.s h) 29 9 48.4 N 9. State LA 10. Longitude (dd mmss.sh) 87 59 159 W 11. Please supply any need attachments. Attachment 1: Cover Letter Autachment 2: Antenna Patterns Aitachment 3: 12. Description. (If the complete description does not appear in this box, please go to the end ofthe form to view it in its entirety.) STA to increase EIRP of KerrMcGee Neptune 13. By checking Yes, the undersigned certifies that neither applicant nor any other party to the application is Yes subject to a denial of Federal benefits that includes FCC benefits pursuant to Section 5301 ofthe Anti—Drug Act of 1988, 21 U.S.C. Section 862, because ofa conviction for possession or distribution of a controlled substance. See 47 CFR 1.2002(b) for the meaning of "party to the application" for these purposes. 14. Name ofPerson Signing 15. Title of Person Signing Alan Aronowitz VP & General Counsel WILLFUL FALSE STATEMENTS MADE ON THIS FORM ARE PUNISHABLE BY FINE AND / OR IMPRISONMENT (U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 1001), AND/OR REVOCATION OF ANY STATION AUTHORIZATION (U.S. Code, Title 47, Section 312(a)(1)), AND/OR FORFEITURE (U.$. Code, Title 47, Section 503).

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) )) Teuscommunicarions. Law W% The Law Office of 201 atr reoy 1. bri Radl Magallanes . wwre Imtatecamine.nam October 29, 2007 Scott Kotler, Chief System Analysis Branch Satellite Division International Bureau Federal Communications Commission 445 12" Street SW Washington, DC 20554 Re: Request for Special Temporary Authority, E050332 Dear Mr. Kotler, Pursuant to Section 25.120(a) of the Rules and Regulations ("Regulations") of the Federal Communications Commission ("Commission"), CapRock Communications, Inc. ("CapRock"), by way of the underlying application, seeks Commission consideration for a Special Temporary Authority ("STA") to increase the EIRP of an earth station located the Gulf of Mexico. The earth station at issue has an FCC file designation of SES—LIC20051111—01554 and call sign of EO50332. According to Section 25.120(b)(3) of the Regulations, the Commission may grant temporary authority for a period not to exceed 60 days, if the STA request has not been placed on public notice, and the applicant plans to file a request for regular authority for the service. In the instant case, the STA request has not been placed on public notice and CapRock plans to file an application for modification once frequency coordination is concluded. Therefore, CapRock respectfully requests an STA for a period not to exceed 60 days. According to Section 25.120 (b)(1) of the Commission‘s rules, "The Commission may grant a temporary authorization only upon a finding that there are extraordinary circumstances requiring temporary operations in the public interest and that delay in the institution of these temporary operations would seriously prejudice the public interest". In the instant case, CapRock requests an STA to increase the power and power density of an existing earth station installed at an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico ("The Earth Station"). This Earth Station is the primary means of communication for the platform. Due to increased personnel and increased demand for the platform operations, the Earth Station capacity has become insufficient. Therefore, it is necessary that the Earth Station power and power density be increased to accommodate the platform communications growth. The circuit at issue is the customer‘s only means of communication. In orderto insure uninterrupted service, the requested date for prior use is November 7. 2007. In accordance to Section 25.120(a) of the Regulations, this STA is being filed at least 3 working days prior to the date of proposed operation. Because of the nature of operations in this platform and the critical role of the existing Earth Station communications link, it is in the public interest that the Earth Station be upgraded with sufficient capacity to accommodate the critical calls that are placed by platform personnel. In

addition, should there be an emergency in this platform; this Earth Station would be used to place calls to communicate with the appropriate agencies. It is imperative that the communications link not be overloaded or has the potential for blocked calls in these cireumstances. The antenna at issue is a C—band Seatel 9797 (2.4m) ("Antenna"). The Antenna does not strictly comply with Section 25.209 of the Regulations. However, pursuant to Section 25.220 (b— c) of the Regulations, an applicant may request the Commission to consider a non—compliant antenna if it can be shown that the operational power density will be below the requirement of Section 25.212(c)(2). Specifically, the earth station operator must provide the power and power density levels that result by reducing the values stated in Section 25.212(c)(2) by the number of decibels that the non—compliant antenna fails to meet the standards of Section 25.209 of the Regulations. The proposed C—band earth station, as modified, will exhibit a maximum power density at the flange of —22.14 dBW/AKHz which is 19.44 dB below the maximum allowed of —2.7dBW/4KHz. In addition, there has been a preliminary interference study performed on this site with no anticipated harmful interference cases. In this case, the proposed Antenna exceeds the patterns of Section 25.209 by approximately 24B in the 9° to 12° region along the azimuth axis. The Antenna is designed to operate with a maximum EIRP density into the antenna flange of ~22.14 dBW/AKHz. This is 19.44 dB below the —2.7dBW/4KHz limit, Applying the methodology in Section 25.220 (b—e), the maximum EIRP density at Antenna flange is increased by 24B to yield, —22.14 dBW/A4KHz + 2 dB =—20.14 dB W/AAKHz. As calculated, this figure is still below the allowed maximum EIRP density at the Antenna flange of —2.7.0 dBW/4KHz by 17.44 dB. A spectral density study is attached as Appendix A hereto. Sincerely, /s/ Raul Magallanes Attorney


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