• AAI/Textron Systems Corporation filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for experimental license. The company wants to test its Shadow 200, Aerosonde, Orbiter and other unmanned aircraft systems. This is related to work for the United States Marine Corp. Operation is to be on 310-390 MHz, 902-928 MHz, 1090 MHz, 1350-1390 MHz, 1700-1859 MHz, and 4400-4999 MHz. Transmitting equipment is manufactured by Microhard Systems Corporation, Free Wave Technologies, Advanced Microwave Products, Global Microwave Systems, and Microair Avionics.

FCC staff has asked for several items of information before approving the application. The FAA operates in the frequency bands 328.6-335.4 MHz, 1090 MHz, and 1215-1390 MHz; FCC staff asks for coordination of these bands with the FAA Regional Office. In addition, the frequency bands 225-328.6 MHz and 335.4-399.9 MHz are used for military purposes, and the applicant was asked to coordinate with NTIA’s Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee (IRAC).

• AAI/Textron Systems Corporation also filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for special temporary authority to operate on 420-450 MHz and 2000-2400 MHz for a government project apparently involving the Orbiter miniature unmanned aircraft system. There is not much information about the proposed operation, and FCC staff has asked for more details.

In correspondence to the applicant, FCC staff notes that the “Aerospace & Flight Test Radio Coordinating Council (AFTRCC) oversees the frequency bands; 1435-1525 MHz, 2310-2320 MHz, and 2345-2390 MHz. These frequency bands need to be removed or need to be prior coordinated.”

• Sportvision filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for special temporary authority for testing of an automobile race track wireless data system that is to provide data communications between vehicles in a race track and one or more fixed base stations installed along a track. Operation is to be on 2395-2400 MHz.

One application seen for this system is video image enhancement for television broadcasting of automobile racing events. The would allow television viewers to see, displayed on screen, the real-time location of cars during a racing event.

The vehicles would be equipped with GPS receivers and other sensors that generate a data packet every 200 milliseconds. The wireless system would collect those packets and deliver them to a control station in real time. “The radio itself is a direct sequence spread spectrum unit, using production radios for 2.4 GHz. The system may ultimately be deployed on an unlicensed basis in the 2.4 GHz band or elsewhere, but the high noise levels in that band in the test locations (commercial automobile race tracks) are unsuitable for development and testing of the product.”

“An Intersil baseband processor performs the Direct Sequence modulation and demodulation. It is part of a five-chipset developed for the 802.11b standard. It uses 1/4th of the standard 802.11 speed resulting in a narrow occupied RF bandwidth.”

The frequency band requested is allocated on a primary basis to the Amateur Radio Service, and coordination is to be performed with the ARRL. This application was granted on June 4.

• Motorola filed an application (with supporting exhibit (as amended)) for special temporary authority to “test, evaluate and demonstrate a prototype radio communications system designed to support the internal communications requirements, including public safety-related communications, of an electric power generation and transmission cooperative in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.”

According to Motorola, “[o]peration under this experimental STA will be conducted on a non-interference basis on a limited number of 12.5 kHz channel pairs in the 151.4725-154.5675 MHz band and the 157.1875-162.9625 MHz band.”

• Raytheon Network Centric Systems filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for experimental license. Raytheon says it is working to build a “NetWarrior Communications System” using GSM technology. The primary use for this experimental license would be to test and evaluate this system while in development and conduct demonstrations for military and government officials.

The system is called GSMnet and is described as a unique communication solution that provides the ability to create a self-contained, privately managed mobile network based on GSM cellular standards. The enabling technology of GSMnet is said to allow military personnel to manage mobile phone access on the GSMnet communications infrastructure, delivering seamless cellular communications coverage to deployed military personnel and critical incident responders in remote or hazardous environments or when conditions have rendered existing GSM cellular networks inaccessible.

Operation is to be on 1922.6, 1927.4, 2112.6, and 2117.4 MHz. This application was granted on June 15.

• Sierra Nevada Corporation filed an application for special temporary authority to conduct flight testing of X-NET Air WiMax transceiver radio devices. The flight tests will determine the range of the data communications that can be achieved and the data throughput that can be achieved at different ranges.

As background, the C4N (Command, Control, Computers, Communications, and Networks) Division of the Sierra Nevada Corporation has developed an air-ground data communications link under contract with the USAF Rivet Joint aircraft operations as a part of the Big Safari Program. The Sierra Nevada equipment is called the X-NET Air System. It is a dual channel FDD radio link. Operation is to be on 2675 and 2685 MHz. This application was granted on June 28.

• Raysat Antenna Systems filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for special temporary authority to operate up to five Land Mobile-Satellite Service (LMSS) earth stations with the AMC-5 and AMC-6 satellites at 79° W.L. and 72° W.L., respectively. The company seeks to test and demonstrate the new SR70 earth terminal, a single-panel, Ku-band array antenna in connection with Department of Defense/Logistics Innovation Agency (DOD/LIA). Operation is requested at 14.0-14.5 MHz.

“The SR-70 antenna technology builds upon RAS’s proven antenna technology for mobile applications. The major enhancement is in the antenna panel which is capable of simultaneous Ku-band transmission and reception within the 14.0-14.5 GHz and 11.7- 12.7 GHz bands, respectively. The antenna allows tracking in three axes, azimuth, elevation and polarization.”

“The antenna consists of a single 6 inch by 6 inch panel array which is mounted on a rotatable platform. The platform rotates in azimuth to orient the panel towards the satellite. The panel also tilts to set the elevation angle. Finally, the antenna has a polarization control mechanism which sets the correct polarization angle for both transmit and receive.”

“During operation, the antenna uses a built-in GPS receiver to determine its position on the earth. It then uses the geographical position and the longitudinal position of the satellite to determine the appropriate elevation angle. Once the elevation angle is set, the antenna rotates in azimuth. During the scanning process the antenna receives Eb/No information from the modem to verify that the target satellite has been acquired. Once the satellite is acquired, the antenna dithers in both azimuth and elevation by ±2.0° to maintain peaking on the satellite and the transmission is enabled. The antenna also has internal 3-axis gyroscopes and 2-axis inclinometers to help with the tracking while the antenna is in motion.”

This application was granted on June 16.

• Lockheed Martin filed an application (with supporting exhibits) to experiment with a swept-frequency radar system operating at various frequencies between 1.0 and 15.4 GHz. The radar transmit-and-receive system will be coherently frequency step-chirped from the start frequency to the final frequency, with a pulse width of 95 ns. Other details are said to be classified; Lockheed Martin has requested confidential treatment of this application, and FCC staff has responded to the company asking for justification.

• Aircell, a provider of Wi-Fi service aboard aircraft (under the GoGo brand) filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for experimental license to conduct FAA-required tests to determine the susceptibility of aircraft avionics to interference from radio frequency emissions from consumer devices operating in Wi-Fi bands. Aircell says it must demonstrate conformance to those standards to receive FAA Supplemental Type Certificates necessary for the deployment of its service aboard commercial airliners. Testing is to be on 2400.0-2483.5 MHz, 5250-5350 MHz, and 5725-5825 MHz.

Aircell says that “[p]ursuant to Documents DO-294B and DO-160 of the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RCTA), and the FAA, standards for testing the susceptibility of avionics to interference have been set. To comply with these standards, tests within an aircraft must radiate at the legal maximum power authorized for the radiating device, plus the link budget of the highest gain antenna permitted, times the number of simultaneous radiating devices. For the purpose of Aircell’s tests, the math computes a 1 watt signal into a 6 db gain antenna times three wireless access points (WAP). That comes to 30 dBm + 6 dB = 4 watts X 3 WAPs = 12 watts. Since the 12 watt signal exceeds the allowed limits for unlicensed devices, an Experimental License is required.”

• Clearwire Spectrum Holdings III filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for experimental license to test WiMAX IEEE 802.16m technology in the Phoenix, Arizona market. (The 802.16m standard is now being finalized in IEEE 802.) Clearwire says it is evaluating 802.16m and other 4G technologies “as a potential technology evolutionary strategy.” Clearwire is planning to test overlay 802.16e WiMAX using 10 MHz channels, Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) using 20 MHz channels, and Time Division Duplex (TDD) using 20 MHz channels. Operation is to be on 2496-2690 MHz.

Equipment from “many vendors” will be evaluated. Many tests are to be performed, including those for end-to-end system performance, mobility management, MIMO, scheduler and QoS, base-station RF characteristics, self-organizing networks, and VoIP. This application was granted on June 29.

• Flight Research, Inc. filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for experimental license to operate on 2.4 GHz to send NTSC video from a small aircraft to ground. A Strain Security transmitter is to be installed in a Cessna 150 aircraft operating as a surrogate UAV. (SUAV). The SUAV is to fly locally as an academic exercise for students in a UAV flight test short course that is part of the National Test Pilot School. Students will execute tests in remotely-piloted and command-directed modes from a ground control element, collecting data employing typical flight test techniques and evaluating the system. Part of that training involves sending video from the aircraft to the ground. (Much of this information was not in the original application but was supplied by e-mail to FCC staff later.)

• Global Technical Systems filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for special temporary authority to test an aircraft-mounted ground-penetrating radar. In the test, a metal target will be buried 6 feet underground and illuminated by the radar for 60 seconds on each pass of the aircraft, which will be flying at 10,000 feet above ground. Data will be collected for ground processing.

Correspondence between the applicant and FCC staff reveals some confusion as to the frequency of operation. It seems it will be in the 1250-1400 MHz range.

• InterDigital filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for experimental license to conduct research using vacant spectrum in the television broadcast bands (the “white spaces”) for indoor testing of fixed and portable white-space devices. InterDigital says its “goal is to develop technology and enable products for efficient use of bandwidth by combining the advantages of multiple radio access technologies and frequency bands.” “InterDigital plans to test technology that provides cost effective options for wireless distribution of various data types including, for example, broadband content (video) and machine-to-machine packets.” “Another goal of the experimentation is to develop and validate cognitive radio technology.”

In correspondence to the applicant, FCC staff asks for details on how InterDigital plans to prevent interference to TV licensees. The links above are for an application for operation in Melville, New York. An essentially-identical application was also filed for operation in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

• Panasonic Avionics Corporation filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for experimental license for ground and flight testing of up to twenty aircraft earth stations (AESs) of two AES types – ten MELCO reflector terminals and ten Aura LE terminals – to further test and demonstrate the functionality of its eXConnect Ku-band Aeronautical Mobile-Satellite Service (“AMSS”) system. The company says eXConnect is to provide broadband internet access, real-time video content, voice and other services aboard commercial aircraft.

The company does not envision formal launch of the eXConnect system onboard U.S. commercial airlines in the near term. It is, however, preparing an FCC blanket license application for authority to operate eXConnect AESs on a full commercial basis. In the meantime, the company wants to conduct limited market studies. Operation is to be on 14.000-14.470 GHz.

• Virginia Tech Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG) filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for special temporary authority to perform experiments related to new TV band (white space) devices.

The Group intends to test prototype TV white space devices to determine how their operation will affect other co-channel and adjacent-channel users, such as wireless microphones and other professional audio equipment that is commonly operated in the television bands. Frequencies will be coordinated prior to operation by the local SBE frequency coordinator. Operation is to be on 512-608 MHz and 614-698 MHz.

• Lockheed Martin filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for special temporary authority to test a Harris model RF-7800S-TR radio as a potential weapon data link to provide in-flight moving target location updates to a weapon to facilitate engaging moving surface targets. The objective of the test is to evaluate the affects of message rate, latency and bit-error-rate on target engagement and determine a realistic target engagement envelope. A larger goal is to demonstrate this class of radio as a viable option to improving moving target strike effectiveness and support the development of low cost, low collateral damage weapons. Operation will be on 350-450 MHz.

• GlySens Incorporated filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for experimental license to test implantable electronic medical devices on 433.92 MHz. The company has requested confidential processing of its application, so few other details are publicly available from the FCC. This application was granted on June 28.

This is likely related to the company’s announced development of a long-term continuous glucose monitoring system that is designed to provide an unobtrusive means to continuously track glucose levels in people with diabetes. The system is has two parts: a long-lived fully-implanted sensor and an external monitor with a display. The sensor continuously monitors glucose levels in subcutaneous tissue, which are correlated to blood glucose levels. The sensor transmits the glucose measurements wirelessly to the  external display device. This device indicates the current blood glucose level, shows a historical chart of the previous blood glucose values, provides adjustable automatic warnings of high and low blood glucose readings, and stores information for analysis.

• Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) filed an application for special temporary authority to use telemetry, ranging, and video transmitters for the second launch campaign of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The vehicle will be launched for NASA from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, under launch authorities granted by the U.S. Air Force and Federal Aviation Administration. SpaceX is under an active STA for this, but due to delays the STA will expire before launch. This application is to continue that authority, as the FCC does not grant extensions for experimental STAs.

SpaceX will utilize a telemetry and video transmitter on both the first and second stages of the vehicle, plus a C-band ranging transmitter on the vehicles second stage. The first stage will begin transmitting 15 minutes prior to launch and remain active for 2.9 minutes after launch. The second stage will continue transmitting for up to 2 hours after launch. Operation will be on 2213.5, 2221.5, 2251.5, 2273.5, and 5765.0 MHz.

In correspondence to the applicant, FCC staff says that the applicant will have to obtain an orbital debris statement from Space Exploration Technologies, Inc., in accordance with 47 CFR, Part 5.63(e) which states, in part, that “Applicants for an experimental authorization involving a satellite system must submit a description of the design and operational strategies the satellite system will use to mitigate orbital debris.”)

• Professor David Miller from MIT filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for experimental license to transmit spacecraft telemetry on 2.4000-2.4836 GHz. This is in support of testing of the CASTOR (Cathode/Anode Satellite Thruster for Orbital Repositioning) satellite. Testing is to validate the performance and application of Diverging Cusped Field Thruster (DCFT) technology. This will be achieved by taking on-orbit state data to compare the degradation experienced by the DCFT to that of similar technologies such as Hall thrusters.

• RLM Communications filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for experimental license. Operation is to be on various broadcast bands from 540 kHz to 806 MHz. The company says it is “providing the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) research and development support in the areas of Joint Integration and Compatibility Development System (JCIDS) and Special Operations Forces Integration Development System (SOFCIDS) requirements development, product evaluation and systems testing and training. RLM will be providing training documentation, technical writers, training specialists, electronic technicians and other media support professionals in the upcoming Design Testing (DT), Operational Testing (OT) and new equipment training (NET) for a family of electronic broadcast systems which encompass broadcast radio in AM, FM, SW and television in UHF and VHF analog television and digital television. The nature of the activity will include erecting the antenna system several times, startup up the transmitter and increasing ERP into a dummy load and into the radiating” antennas.

• Clearwire filed an application for special temporary authority (with supporting exhibits) to test WiMAX equipment at various locations in California on 2502-2568 MHz. The purpose of the test is to validate the ability of equipment to operate satisfactorily in the presence of collocated equipment licensed to Sprint in the 800 and 1900 MHz bands.
• DataSoft Corporation filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for experimental license. The company says it is developing a Software Defined Radio platform featuring a configurable 400 MHz to 4000 MHz transceiver intended for markets requiring an adaptable, programmable, or cognitive radio such as TV white space, smart grid, and home networking. The experimental license is to support testing of the transceiver in a TV white space application. Due to lack of available white-space client devices, the applicant proposes using re-banded Wi-Fi equipment in the experiment. Operation is to be in Scottsdale, Arizona on 500-540 MHz.

• BAE Systems filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for experimental license to test a wireless link for use by the US Army between a soldier’s night weapon sight and night vision goggles. The wireless link will utilize WiMedia MB-OFDM Ultra-wideband technology. Operation is to be on 3.168-4.752 GHz.

• Honeywell filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for experimental license to test integration of a direct digital radio link into small unmanned aerial vehicles. This is in support of two US Army programs and one US Navy program. The radio is manufactured by AeroVironment, Inc. Both command and control, as well as video downlink, utilize the same radio. Frequency bands requested are 1711.5-1721.5 MHz and 1755-1848 MHz. Operation will be in Albuquerque and Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

• Texas Tech University Wind Science and Engineering Research Center filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for special temporary authority to operate a Ka-band mobile radar systems in support of tornado research. Operation is to be at 34.86 GHz.

• Kestrel Signal Processing filed an application for special temporary authority to allow “testing of a novel cellular network technology that is compatible with standard GSM cellular handsets.” The operation will be on the grounds of, and overlap in time with, the Burning Man event held near Gerlach, Nevada Aug. 30 – Sept. 6, 2010. Operation will be on 869-894 MHz and 1930-1945 MHz.

• CenturyTel Broadband Wireless filed an application for special temporary authority to assess the performance of equipment manufactured by IPWireless (but not yet FCC type accepted) for providing 700 MHz rural broadband service. Operation is to be at Monroe, Louisiana on 736-746 MHz.

• Inmarsat Hawaii filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for special temporary authority to initiate a program of experimentation designed to facilitate the introduction of a new Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) user terminal type. The testing would attempt to gain knowledge with respect to link quality and to validate Inmarsat’s theoretical approach. Testing also would evaluate the interaction of the new terminal type with Inmarsat’s ground infrastructure. Inmarsat  proposes to test the terminal type in the 1626.5- 1660.5 MHz transmit band and 1525.0-1559.0 MHz receive band.

• Cobham Defense Electronic Systems filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for experimental license to operate in Lowell, Massachusetts on various frequencies between 902 and 5925 MHz. Apparently, this is to be experimentation in support of the DARPA program Wireless Network after Next (WNaN). As the exhibit explains, the WNaN “program goal is to develop and demonstrate technologies and system concepts enabling densely deployed networks in which distributed and adaptive network operations compensate for limitations of the physical layer of the low-cost wireless nodes that comprise these networks. WNaN networks will manage node configurations and the topology of the network to reduce the demands on the physical and link layers of the nodes. The technology created by the WNaN effort will provide reliable and highly- available battlefield communications at low system cost.”

• Radio Design Group filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for experimental license to test a wireless intercom system that will utilize an Amplitude Companded Side Band (ACSB) RF platform. The applicant expects this to provide a stable and robust signal that is efficient in terms of transmission bandwidth and power. The applicant also expects this system to allow for an occupied bandwidth of 15 kHz per audio path including guard band. The system will be tested on 174-216 MHz and 470-512 MHz in the vicinity of Grants Pass, Oregon.

• Sensus Spectrum filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for special temporary authority to test European Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) equipment on 412-424 MHz.

• The University of Colorado filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for special temporary authority to test the feasibility of synthetic aperture radar in an end-fire configuration. This configuration will output short (50ns) bursts of approximately 10W at 500-530 MHz in order to construct an image of objects in an adjacent parking lot. This is an attempt to prove the feasibility of a new radar configuration for a proposal to NASA.

• Oceanit filed an application for special temporary authority for a Ku-band SATCOM transmission test with an experimental ground-based phased-array antenna. Operation is to be on 13.75-14.50 GHz.

• Northrop Grumman filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for special temporary authority to test an electronically-scanned-array radar system intended to act as part of a missile interceptor system to protect against rocket, artillery and mortar threats. Operation is to be on 16.2-17.3 GHz.

• Modulation Sciences filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for an experimental license to develop equipment and techniques for Data Return Link (DRL) use in conjunction with Electronic News Gathering (ENG). The company will test a variety of formats and equipment configurations in various propagation conditions including areas with significant urban clutter. Operation is to be on 2025 and 2109.5-2110 MHz.

• Goodrich Corporation ISR Systems filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for special temporary authority (STA) for testing and demonstration of a new high data rate microwave RF data link. The STA will enable Goodrich ISR Systems to conduct limited low-power free-space testing of integrated system to ensure proper RF systems interoperation, including of the antennas and their control systems. Operation is to be on 14.700-14.825 GHz and 15.15-15.35 GHz.

This data link is in support of a reconnaissance system including both an airborne imaging sensor and a ground data exploitation station, which are connected via a high-rate line-of-sight Ku-band microwave data link. This testing will validate the design for systems under development for delivery under several programs, one of which is the Royal Moroccan Air Force F-16 Airborne Reconnaissance System.

• Syniverse Technologies filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for special temporary authority to experiment with wireless roaming solutions and fraud services associated with GSM SIM Cards. Operation is to be on 1900 MHz.

• Geo-Marine filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for experimental license to test bird-detection radar systems associated with aviation. Geo-Marine is doing this as a subcontractor to the University of Illinois. The work is part of a Federal Aviation Administration R&D program related to development of a National Bird Strike Hazard Advisory System. The proposed research will involve the deployment of two Furuno marine radar units. These units are authorized by the Commission for use on navigable waterways, but currently are not approved for use in land-based applications. Operation is to be on 3050 and 9410 MHz.

• Lockheed Martin filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for experimental license to develop Maritime Traffic Management systems and demonstrate capabilities to customers. The company intends to use the license for development testing, evaluation, and demonstration of commercially-available mobile VHF FM maritime voice communication radios and AIS international-standard maritime transponders, used in maritime surveillance systems. Operation is to be on various frequencies from 156.025 to 161.525 MHz.

• Lockheed Martin also filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for experimental license to test a system transmitting NTSC analog video signals from a small unmanned aerial vehicle to a ground station. Operation is to be on various frequencies from 910 to 2510 MHz.

• The University of Maryland MAXWell Laboratory filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for an experimental license to test applications for 4G WiMAX mobile broadband networks. The proposed experiment supports deliverables in several government contracts, including for the study of 4G applications, self-diagnostic network protocols, and a National Science Foundation project, “NeTS: Small: Greed‐Resistant Protocols,” that is studying techniques for striping individual Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections over multiple 3G and 4G wireless networks. Operation is to be on 2498.5-2687.5 MHz.

The MAXWell Lab is a partnership among the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), the Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences (LTS), and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)).

• Clearwire filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for special temporary authority. Clearwire wants to validate the features and quantitatively measure performance of a 4G Radio Access Network infrastructure in a field and lab environment. It also intends to study performance of WiMAX and 4G technology under various interference conditions, as well as varying channel and loading conditions. Operation is to be in the Kansas City, Kansas area on 2502.0-2568.0 MHz.

• Raytheon filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for experimental license for testing of multi-function radio frequency system (MFRFS) compact high-gain active-phase-array radar. In the testing, a Moving Target Simulator (MTS) is to be used to transmit updated targeting information (an event timing table) to the Active Protection System (APS) Counter Measure (CM) via the MTS horn antenna and CM-mounted Down Converter Communication Module (DCCM) (the receiving data link). The MTS is used to emulate, in controlled test conditions, the function provided by the MRFRS Radar in a tactical environment. Operation is to be on 34-38 GHz.

• Lamba Consulting filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for experimental license to test the concept of translating a Low Probability of Intercept (LPI) Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) burst signal to another frequency. This translation (reradiation on a different frequency) is done to extend the range of the signal. (The translator hardware does not demodulate the signal as it contains classified information.) The testing will verify that frequency translation can be made linear enough to maintain the quality of the original signal. Operation is to be on 800.5-803.5 MHz

• Insitu, Inc. filed an experimental application for which confidential treatment was requested, so few details are publicly available. The company coordinated several frequencies with the FAA, including 1030, 1090, and 1365-1390 MHz.

• The Maryland Department of the Environment filed an application (with supporting exhibits) to operate a wind-profiling radar on 915 MHz. The equipment was developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and fabricated by Radian International. The antenna is to consist of one steerable four-panel micro-patch phased array.

• DTV Norwich filed an application (with supporting exhibit) for special temporary authority to conduct propagation tests prior to potential full-scale deployment of Multichannel Video and Data Distribution Service (“MVDDS”) at 12.2 to 12.7 GHz in the Miami area. This is to determine the suitability of potential transmitter sites for full-scale operation, for which DTV Norwich has a license.

• Lockheed Martin filed an application for special temporary authority to test and demonstrate a military airborne communications system. It is a 3G cellular-like voice and data system that will be provided by a tactical airborne radio base station and modified Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) mobile ground terminals. The equipment is manufactured by IP Wireless and will operate on 758-763 and 788-793 MHz.

• Lockheed Martin also filed an application (and supporting exhibits) for experimental license to test the countermeasure capabilities of the TPS-77 tactical transportable radar system. This activity is in support of a contract with the National Armed Forces of the Republic of Latvia. Operation is to be on 1275 and 1372 MHz.

• Lockheed Martin also requested special temporary authority for testing involving the transmission of video imagery and tactical data. Transmission will be ground-to-ground and air-to-ground using a helicopter. Operation is to be on 2.428 and 4.700 GHz.

• Battelle filed an application (and supporting exhibit) for special temporary authority to test a millimeter-wave communications link with a data rate of 10 Gbps over a distance of 1 km. Operation is to be on 95-105 GHz.

• The City of Memphis requested special temporary authority on behalf of its Memphis Light Gas and Water (MLGW) utility. This is to test a high-speed private point-to-multipoint mobile broadband wireless system to support its existing and planned mission-critical data applications. The intent is to improve on an existing, obsolete, narrowband, private mobile radio data system for its 500 utility vehicles. Operation will be on 775-805 MHz.

• Rockwell Collins requested special temporary authority  to test high-speed data waveforms over high-frequencies using bandwidths wider than the traditional 3 kHz (specifically, up to 12 KHz). Rockwell Collins is currently designing these new waveforms and testing them in the laboratory. Testing will occur on various frequencies from 3.171 to 14.550 MHz.

• Universal Avionics Systems filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for experimental license to operate on 131.55, 136.85, and 136.975 MHz. This is to test a two-way digital data link that allows an aircraft to exchange data with a ground host computer.

• Aviat Networks requested special temporary authority to test and demonstrate new WiMAX equipment and system design including a base station, customer-premise equipment, and mobile equipment. Operation is to be on 2502.0-2507.5 MHz.

• The University of Iowa filed an application (and associated exhibits) for experimental license to test a flight simulation system that involves ground-based and airborne simulators. Under this system, a video downlink allows a group of subject matter experts to witness the performance of the technology from the ground, while the flight is underway. This testing supports a project focusing on the development and commercialization of a physiologically-based training system that supports the goals of the US military. Operation will be at 2410.275-2415.725 MHz.

• TV Microwaves Company filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for special temporary authority to test COFDM video transmitters aboard a non-government rocket at elevations up to 100,000 feet, above Tillamook, Oregon (the receive site). Testing will be on various frequencies between 450.65 and 2483.5 MHz.

• Rincon Research filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for experimental license to conduct tests in support of a research project is to develop and improve radiolocation technology. The proposed system is to consist of “simple” equipment on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using omnidirectional antennas communicating with a base station with directional antennas tracking the UAVs. Part of the communications includes a wideband link from the UAV to the ground processing station containing signals-of-interest and precision tracking and timing information. There are also control signals from the ground processing station to the UAV signal processing hardware. Requested frequencies include 902-928, 5470-5600, and 9300-9500 MHz.

Applications were also filed by the following, but there is little information publicly available due to requests for confidentiality:

• SpiderCloud Wireless
• Boeing
• Deterministic Time Solutions
• Digital Receiver Technology

The following two companies filed applications that appear incomplete at the time of this post. An FCC staffer has requested additional information. This post will be updated as details are received.

• Intel
• International Totalizing Systems

• Skyport Global Communications filed an application (with supporting exhibits) to test a 55cm slot-array X-band antenna manufactured by EMS Technologies on 8218-8400 MHz. The test will be done using a satellite link between the 55cm antenna in Atlanta, Georgia and a hub in Houston, Texas using the XTAR LANT X-band satellite.

• Ingegneria Dei Sistemi S.p.a. filed an application for special temporary authority to operate on 17.1-17.3 GHz in support of a landslide monitoring system to be tested in Bingham Canyon, Utah. This testing is in conjunction with Rio Tinto, an international mining group.

• Columbia University filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for an experimental license to operate WiMAX equipment on 2590-2596 MHz as part of the GENI project.

• SET Corporation filed an application (and supporting exhibits) for special temporary authority to operate on 35.75 GHz in Denver, Colorado and vicinity. There are not many technical details in the filing; the company has requested confidential treatment of the information describing the proposed operation. The company is using equipment from Norden Millimeter, a vendor of millimeter wave amplifier products for what is apparently a radar project.

• DRS Tactical Systems filed an application (and supporting exhibit) requesting special temporary authority to operate in Melbourne, Florida on 4.94-4.99 GHz. This is to be in support of a test of three data nodes – two fixed, and one mobile. In the test, a Harris Broadband Ethernet Radio system will be attached to a DRS Gateway System The testing is intended to develop complex gateway functionality for military and commercial users in a mobile environment.

• Sierra Nevada Corporation filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for experimental license to operate near Sparks, Nevada on 9.30-9.32 and 33.0-33.4 GHz. This is to support design and development of a receiver that is to be part of an Automated Carrier Landing System, an all-weather automatic landing system used on some ships to land high-performance fighter aircraft.

• Oklahoma State University-University Multispectral Laboratories, LLC filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for experimental license to operate  on 495.25 609.25, and 753.25 at Chilocco, Oklahoma. Those frequencies correspond to the visual carrier frequencies for analog television channels 18, 37, and 61, respectively. The modulating signal may be NTSC television.

The purpose of the proposed operation is to fulfill a government contract, but there is little additional detail. Part of the application says the operation is “to provide various sensor test and evaluation services.” Another part says operation is for “testing of the Psyops transmitting equipment.”

Harris files an application and supporting exhibits for Special Temporary Authority to test a wideband waveform operating at either 12 kHz bandwidth or 24 kHz bandwidth to allow faster data transfer at high frequencies (3171 to 14550 kHz). The FCC objects to some of the proposed frequencies.

The City of Chicago files an application and supporting exhibits requesting Special Temporary Authority to test a new helicopter-based wireless surveillance system using a Chicago Fire Department helicopter. The test would use a FLIR analog video camera, encoder, Firetide wireless mesh router, Troll Systems antenna, and several ground sites with Firetide radios. (4940-4990 MHz)

Skyport Global Communications has requested, and been granted, Special Temporary Authority to test X-band VSAT portable units for use in support of disaster relief by the United States Air Force Rome Air Development Center. The operation includes emergency communications in Haiti using the XTAR LANT satellite, a 4.8m hub in Houston and 1.2m portable VSAT units in upstate New York. The portable units will eventually be shipped to Haiti. (8324-8331 MHz)

Inlustro Tech requests Special Temporary Authority to test cell phone jamming technology in Puerto Rico in the 800-2100 MHz range. The FCC has requested more details.

Innovonix files an application and supporting exhibits for an Experimental Radio license to test radar on 35-36 GHz in sensor systems capable of detecting objects in foliage. The radar uses an agile beam steering deflector. The testing will focus on improving the linearity of the FM sweep used for the modulation of the carrier, address a saturation issue that can occur in the front end when high energy is received, and possibly test a dielectric lens to be used in conjunction with a horn antenna. The FCC requested more details, and Innovonix responded.

Rockwell Collins files an application and supporting exhibits for Experimental Radio license to test the DME-2100, a transponder-based radio navigation technology for air transport that measures distance by timing radio propagation delay. The request is for operation on 1025-1150 MHz, and the FCC has asked Rockwell Collins to coordinate some frequencies with the FAA.

Ducommun Technologies requests Special Temporary Authority to test a low power doppler vehicle speed radar to be used at the side of the road to measure vehicle speed in different lanes. (34.5-34.9 GHz)

Operation will be at 2590-2600 MHz and use NEC’s WiMAX base-station hardware supporting a maximum of three sectors, a coverage radius of 3-5 km, and peak data rates of 15-30 Mbps. The base station uses an external PC controller that interfaces the base station to other parts of the GENI infrastructure.

GENI plans to support experimentation on shared heterogeneous infrastucture with programmability throughout the network, including wireless aspects. It is intended to promote innovations in network science, security, technologies, services, and applications. At this time, GENI plans to use WiMAX at 8 universities. Some sites will also use the OpenFlow standard, which allows researchers to run experimental protocols on production networks.