CONTENTS

Policy on Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
 1     Introduction
 2     Characteristics of EESS SAR used in the studies
 3     Analysis of the impact of unwanted emissions of EESS SAR operating around 9 600 MHz on radio astronomy stations operating in the band 10.6-10.7 GHz
        3.1     Introduction
        3.2     Characteristics of stations operating in RAS
        3.3     Methodology
                  3.3.1     Static analysis
                  3.3.2     Dynamic analysis
        3.4     Simulation results and discussion
        3.5     Additional potential impairments of RAS operations
                  3.5.1     Basic assumptions
                  3.5.2     Detection and blocking by strong ambient signals from outside the receiver IF bandwidth
                  3.5.3     Non-linear response of RAS receivers to strong signals
                  3.5.4     Risk of damage to the RAS receiver
 4     Compatibility between EESS (active) around 9 600 MHz and EESS (passive) in the frequency band 10.6-10.7 GHz
        4.1     Introduction
        4.2     Characteristics of EESS (passive)
                  4.2.1     Provisions of the EESS (passive) allocation
                  4.2.2     Required protection criteria
                  4.2.3     Operational characteristics
        4.3     Static analysis of the impact of SAR-4 on EESS (passive)
        4.4     Dynamic analysis of the impact of SAR-4 on EESS (passive)
 5     Compatibility between EESS (active) and SRS in the frequency band  8 400-8 500 MHz
        5.1     Introduction
        5.2     Characteristics of stations operating in the space research service
        5.3     Static analysis with SRS deep-space earth stations
        5.4     Dynamic analysis with both deep-space and near-Earth SRS
        5.5     Proposed interference mitigation techniques
                  5.5.1     Pulse shaping
                  5.5.2     Antenna pointing
                  5.5.3     Filtering
                  5.5.4     Selection of frequency sweep and pulse duration
                  5.5.5     Location of the 600 MHz extension
                  5.5.6     Geographic separation
        5.6     Potential saturation and damage of the SRS earth station front end
 6     Summary and conclusions
        6.1     Conclusions regarding the radioastronomy service (RAS)
        6.2     Conclusions regarding the EESS (passive)
        6.3     Conclusions regarding the space research service (SRS)
 7     Supporting documents
Annex A  Pulse shaping methods and their performance
Annex B  Abbreviations