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FCC 27.1134
Revised as of December 4, 2012
Goto Year:2011 |
2013
§ 27.1134 Protection of Federal Government operations.
(a) Protection of Department of Defense operations in the 1710-1755 MHz
band. The Department of Defense (DoD) operates communications systems
in the 1710-1755 MHz band at 16 protected facilities, nationwide. AWS
licensees must accept any interference received from these facilities
and must protect the facilities from interference. AWS licensees shall
protect the facilities from interference by restricting the operation
of their base and fixed stations from any locations that could
potentially permit AWS mobile, fixed, and portable stations
transmitting in the 1710-1755 MHz band to cause interference to
government operations within the radii of operation of the 16
facilities (the radii of operation of each facility is indicated in the
third column of Table 1 immediately following paragraph (a)(3) of this
section). In addition, AWS licensees shall be required to coordinate
any operations that could permit mobile, fixed, and portable stations
to operate in the specified areas of the 16 facilities, as defined in
paragraph (a)(3) of this section. Protection of these facilities in
this manner shall take place under the following conditions:
(1) At the Yuma, Arizona and Cherry Point, North Carolina facilities,
all operations shall be protected indefinitely.
(2) At the remaining 14 facilities, airborne and military test range
operations shall be protected until such time as these systems are
relocated to other spectrum, and precision guided munitions (PGM)
operations shall be protected until such time as these systems are
relocated to other spectrum or until PGM inventory at each facility is
exhausted, whichever occurs first.
(3) AWS licensees whose transmit operations in the 1710-1755 MHz band
consist of fixed or mobile operations with nominal transmit EIRP values
of 100 mW or less and antenna heights of 1.6 meters above ground or
less shall coordinate their services around the 16 sites at the
distance specified in row a. of Table 2. AWS licensees whose transmit
operations in the 1710-1755 MHz band consist of fixed or mobile
operations with nominal transmit EIRP values of 1 W or less and antenna
heights of 10 meters above ground or less shall coordinate their
services around the 16 sites at the distance specified in row b. of
Table 2. These coordination distances shall be measured from the edge
of the operational distances indicated in the third column of Table 1,
and coordination with each affected DoD facility shall be accomplished
through the Commander of the facility.
Table 1—Protected Department of Defense Facilities
Location Coordinates Radius of
operation
(km)
Cherry Point, NC34°58′ N, 076°56′ W 100
Yuma, AZ32°32′ N, 113°58′ W 120
China Lake, CA35°41′ N, 117°41′ W 120
Eglin AFB, FL30°29′ N, 086°31′ W 120
Pacific Missile Test Range/Point Mugu, CA 34°07′ N, 119°30′ W 80
Nellis AFB, NV36°14′ N, 115°02′ W 160
Hill AFB, UT41°07′ N, 111°58′ W 160
Patuxent River, MD38°17′ N, 076°25′ W 80
White Sands Missile Range, NM33°00′ N, 106°30′ W 80
Fort Irwin, CA35°16′ N, 116°41′ W 50
Fort Rucker, AL31°13′ N, 085°49′ W 50
Fort Bragg, NC35°09′ N, 079°01′ W 50
Fort Campbell, KY36°41′ N, 087°28′ W 50
Fort Lewis, WA47°05′ N, 122°36′ W 50
Fort Benning, GA32°22′ N, 084°56′ W 50
Fort Stewart, GA31°52′ N, 081°37′ W 50
Table 2—Coordination Distances for the Protected Department Of Defense
Facilities
1710-1755 MHz transmit operations Coordination
distance
(km)
a. EIRP <=100 mW, antenna height <=1.6 m AG 35
b. EIRP <=1 W, antenna height <=10 m AG 55
(b) Protection of non-DoD operations in the 1710-1755 MHz and 1755-1761
MHz bands. Until such time as non-DoD systems operating in the
1710-1755 MHz and 1755-1761 MHz bands are relocated to other spectrum,
AWS licensees shall protect such systems by satisfying the appropriate
provisions of TIA Telecommunications Systems Bulletin 10-F,
“Interference Criteria for Microwave Systems,” May, 1994 (TSB 10-F).
(c) Protection of Federal Government operations below 1710 MHz. AWS
licensees operating fixed stations in the 1710-1755 MHz band, if
notified that such stations are causing interference to radiosonde
receivers operating in the Meteorological Aids Service in the 1675-1700
MHz band or a meteorological-satellite earth receiver operating in the
Meteorological-Satellite Service in the 1675-1710 MHz band, shall be
required to modify the stations' location and/or technical parameters
as necessary to eliminate the interference.
(d) Recognition of NASA Goldstone facility operations in the 2110-2120
MHz band. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
operates the Deep Space Network (DSN) in the 2110-2120 MHz band at
Goldstone, California ( see Table 3). NASA will continue its operations
of high power transmitters (nominal EIRP of 105.5 dBW with EIRP up to
119.5 dBW used under emergency conditions) in this band at this
location. AWS licensees must accept any interference received from the
Goldstone DSN facility in this band.
Table 3—Location of the NASA Goldstone Deep Space Facility
Location Coordinates Maximum
transmitter
output power
Goldstone, California 35°18′ N 116°54′ W 500 kW
[ 69 FR 5716 , Feb. 6, 2004, as amended at 73 FR 50571 , Aug. 27, 2008]
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