LightSquared Plans Remote Earth Station in California

LightSquared plans to set up an earth station in Carlsbad, California. In an FCC International Bureau filing Wednesday, the satellite company requested the Carlsbad station be added to its satellite carrier monitoring system license, alongside its already licensed hub earth station in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; its six stations scattered across North America; and a U.S.-based station authorized under a separate FCC license. The California earth station, like its others, would be used to monitor signal levels from such satellites as MSAT-1, MSAT-2 and SkyTerra 1, and the link between the earth station and hub station. LightSquared also requested approval for increasing the maximum equivalent isotropically radiated power density at its Cedar Hill, Texas, earth station.