ComReg Document

Ireland's regulator Comreg has published a document entitled 'Proposed Strategy for Managing the Radio Spectrum: 2008 - 2010'.

There is a short section on Amateur Radio Experimenters at pages 63 and 64 of the document. ComReg's strategy for the period concerned includes - implementing the life-time license - updating the guidelines document and facilitating short term authorizations for radio amateurs visiting Ireland - modifying the format of repeater callsigns, and - considering the allocation of spectrum around 500 kHz on the basis of a common European position.

Issues of concern to experimenters which are not mentioned in the strategy are the four 3 kHz channels in the 5 MHz region agreed some time back and the general release of the 70 MHz band which was also agreed. We are hopeful that these matters will be brought to a conclusion in the near future.

The Irish Radio Transmitters Society will be preparing a response to the document and it is also of course open to individual experimenters or clubs to submit views. Responses must be sent by 11 April to “sinead dot devey at comreg dot ie”.

The document is available on the ComReg website at
www.comreg.ie as Document ComReg 08/20.

Source: IRTS