FCC Should Set Aside More Spectrum for Drones, Small UAV Coalition Says
The Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Coalition asked the FCC to allocate more spectrum for unmanned aerial systems (UAS), said a filing in the FCC docket on implementing decisions made at the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference. The commission should “support…
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innovation and technology leadership in the United States by moving quickly in this proceeding, and others, to ensure that spectrum is available to support the wide range of communications functions that are critical to UAS,” the coalition said. “These functions include but are not limited to aircraft-to-ground, ground-to-aircraft, and aircraft-to-aircraft communications needed for both line-of-sight and beyond line-of-sight control links, diagnostics, tracking, collision avoidance and payload communications.” The filing was posted Friday in docket 14-177.