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 Federal  Communications  Commission  Washington,  D.  C.  20554 
 DA  06-  1396  July  6,  2006 
 Mr.  Michael  J.  Beattie  Datapath,  Inc. 
 2450  Satellite  Blvd  Duluth,  GA  30096-  5801 
 Re:  Call  Sign:  E060075  File  No.  SES-  MOD-  20060605-  00924 


 Dear  Mr.  Beattie: 
 On  June  5,  2006,  Datapath,  Inc.  (Datapath)  filed  the  above-  captioned  application  to  modify  its  license  for  an  earth  station  in  Duluth,  Georgia  to  add  antennas,  add  Ka-  band  1  frequencies,  and  add 
 the  AMC-  15  satellite  at  105  o  W.  L.,  AMC-  16  satellite  at  85  o  W.  L.,  and  WGS  GapFiller  satellite  at  123  o  W.  L.  as  points  of  communication.  For  the  reason  explained  below,  we  dismiss  the 
 application  as  defective  without  prejudice  to  refiling. 
 Section  25.115(  e)  of  the  Commission’s  rules  provides  that  “Applications  to  license  individual  earth  stations  operating  in  the  20/  30  GHz  band  shall  be  filed  on  FCC  Form  312,  Main  Form  and 
 Schedule  B,  and  shall  also  include  the  information  describe  in  Section  25.138.”  Datapath  did  not  submit  antenna  radiation  patterns  required  by  Section  25.138(  d).  Thus,  the  application  is 
 incomplete. 
 Additionally,  the  WGS  GapFiller  satellite  is  a  U.  S.  Government  satellite  authorized  by  the  National  Telecommunications  and  Information  Administration  (NTIA).  Nothing  in  the 
 Commission’s  rules  requires  earth  station  operators  seeking  Commission  authority  to  communicate  with  a  U.  S.  Government  satellite  to  provide  technical  information  regarding  the 
 satellite.  Without  this  information,  however,  we  cannot  determine  whether  the  proposed  operations  are  likely  to  cause  harmful  interference  to  any  other  Commission-  licensed  operations.  2 
 Therefore,  in  any  refiling  we  request  Datapath  to  include  the  following  information  with  respect  to  the  WGS  GapFiller  satellite: 


 (1)  All  the  information  specified  in  Section  25.  114(  d)  of  the  Commission's  rules,  47  C.  F.  R.  §  25.  114(  d). 
 (2)  A  Schedule  S,  as  required  by  Section  25.114(  a)  of  the  Commission's  rules,  47  C.  F.  R.  §  25.114(  a). 
 1  18.  6-  18.  8,  19.  7-  20.  2,  28.  4-  28.6,  and  29.  5-  30.0  GHz  bands. 
 2  See  Letter  from  Scott  A.  Kotler,  Chief,  Systems  Analysis  Branch,  FCC  to  Otis  B.  Brown,  Dean, 
 Rosenstiel  School  of  Marine  &  Atmospheric  Sciences,  University  of  Miami  (dated  September  27,  2005). 
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 Accordingly,  pursuant  to  Section  25.112(  a)(  1)  3  of  the  Commission’s  rules,  47  C.  F.  R.  §  25.112(  a)(  1),  and  Section  0.  261  of  the  Commission’s  rules  on  delegations  of  authority,  47  C.  F.  R. 
 §  0.261,  we  dismiss  the  application  as  defective  without  prejudice  to  refiling.  4 


 Sincerely, 


 Scott  A.  Kotler  Chief,  Systems  Analysis  Branch 
 Satellite  Division  International  Bureau 


 3  47  C.  F.  R.  §  25.  112(  a)(  1).  See  also  Echostar  Satellite  LLC,  Order  on  Reconsideration,  DA  04-  4056 
 (released  December  27,  2004). 
 4  If  Datapath  refiles  an  application  identical  to  the  one  dismissed,  with  the  exception  of  supplying  the 
 requested  information,  it  need  not  pay  an  application  fee.  See  47  C.  F.  R.  §  1.1109(  d). 
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