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GVF 105 “Performance and Test Guidelines for Type Approval of ‘Comms on the Move’ Mobile Satellite”  

This document presents an outline of test procedures that are acceptable to the satellite operator and hardware manufacturers for type approving mobile VSAT terminals.  Any demonstration of performance has to be accomplished via live measurements rather than analysis.  The GVF type approval process had progressed for stationary VSAT systems to encompass auto deploy antenna systems.  The next focus for mobile VSAT terminals communicating with satellites while the terminal is in motion, introduces an entire new complexity in to the terminal design.  A primary concern is that the terminal can operate, while in motion over various terrains, without causing interference to adjacent satellites.