IARU-R1 VHF/UHF/uW Newsletter

Edition 53 of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 1 VHF/UHF/uW newsletter is now available on the web, and it highlights the need to adhere to band plans.

With regards to D-STAR repeaters it says:

In the last conference, the transmission of digital voice was implemented into the bandplans. As pointed out in previous newsletters, in some countries, D-Star repeaters are set up without co-ordination. This is aggravated by the fact that some of these use arbitrary set-offs and thus create interference in the satellite sub-band.

Will, therefore, all VHF Managers take appropriate action to ask the repeater operators to adhere to the IARU frequency plans. Whenever a new 2m D-Star repeater is set up, existing analogue repeaters must be switched off. I do recognize the need to support further developments in the field of digital voice communication.

The newsletter also contains the VHF/UHF/Microwave papers that will be submitted to the Region 1 Vienna conference February 20-21.

Read Edition 53 at
http://www.oevsv.at/export/oevsv/download/UKW/
Newsletter_53.pdf

IARU-R1 VHF/UHF/Microwave newsletters can be downloaded from
http://www.iaru-r1.org/index.php?option=com_remository
&Itemid=173&func=select&id=6

IARU Region 1
http://www.iaru-r1.org/