{"id":49874,"date":"2026-08-10T22:54:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=49874"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:55:23","slug":"fcc-satellite-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/spectrum-forum-posts-overview\/spectrum-forum-papers-consultations\/2026\/08\/10\/fcc-satellite-spectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Satellite Spectrum Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 16th July 2026, the FCC opened an initial call for input on &#8216;<em>Unleashing Unlicensed Spectrum for Direct-to-Device&#8217;<\/em> that unfortunately includes three amateur allocations at &#8211; at 920MHz, 2.4GHz and 5.7GHz &#8211; where a new class of commercial satellites would operate.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>FCC Proposal: <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/08\/FCC_NPRM_Docket-26-169.pdf\">Docket No. 26-169<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>ARRL: <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/08\/ARRL-26-169-reply.pdf\">Response Letter<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>FCC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/ecfs\/search\/search-filings\/results?q=(proceedings.name:(%2226-169%22))\">Electronic Comment Filing System for 26-169<\/a> <\/strong>(ECFS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Note: This follows FCC &#8216;authorising&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/spectrum-forum-posts-overview\/spectrum-forum-papers-consultations\/2025\/07\/10\/ast-spacemobile-and-430-440mhz\/\">70cm usage by AST Space Mobile<\/a> for a constellation of 248 satellites.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 16th July 2026, the FCC opened an initial call for input on &#8216;Unleashing Unlicensed Spectrum for Direct-to-Device&#8217; that unfortunately includes three amateur allocations at &#8211; at 920MHz, 2.4GHz and 5.7GHz &#8211; where a new class of commercial satellites would operate. FCC Proposal: Docket No. 26-169 ARRL: Response Letter\u00a0\u00a0 FCC: Electronic Comment Filing System for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spectrum-forum-papers-consultations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49874"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49893,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49874\/revisions\/49893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}