Deere Seeks Tempory Authority for StarFire Earth Stations

While it waits for permanent approval to operate its StarFire precision farming system mobile earth stations at 1545.9675 and 1545.9775 MHz, Deere is asking the FCC International Bureau for special temporary authority to operate them on a receive-only, non-common carrier basis at those frequencies with a pair of Inmarsat satellites. In a pair of IB filings Thursday (see here and here), Deere said the STA would be in conjunction with downlinks from other Inmarsat geostationary satellites already authorized.