CEPT meetings in Istanbul

International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 members will take part in two CEPT meetings in Istanbul on March 30-31 and April 6-9.

From IARU Region 1 website:
CEPT Meetings in Istanbul by Colin Thomas, G3PSM, External Relations Committee Chairman

Members of the IARU Region 1 ERC will take part in two separate CEPT European Communications Office meetings that will take place in Istanbul over the coming weeks.

Panayot Danev LZ1US will represent IARU Region 1 at the annual Civil/Military meeting of the Frequency Management Working Group (FMWG) that takes place over the 30th and 31st March 2010 and this will be closely followed by a meeting of the WRC-12 Conference Preparatory Group Project Team C which takes place between the 6th and 9th April 2010.

While there are no immediate matters to concern the amateur services during the Civil/Military meeting it is always a good opportunity to have a presence in case matters arise that could affect our interests.

The fact that the meeting Chairman is Russian and Panayot speaks the language is an added bonus.

The Project Team C (PT-C) meeting will discuss, amongst other things, WRC-12 Agenda Item 1.23 which is the IARU proposal for a secondary frequency allocation around 500 kHz. Ulrich Mueller DK4VW the Region 1 HF Manager will represent DARC in the German delegation while John Gould G3WKL will be in the UK delegation as the RSGB representative.

The CEPT Coordinator for this agenda item is Colin Thomas G3PSM. There will also be a number of other licensed radio amateurs within their respective delegations representing either their administrations or organisations.

Perhaps this is a good opportunity to remind readers who are members of their national societies and have an interest in this agenda item that a 500 kHz discussion forum does exist within the IARU-R1 website.

If you are interested in taking part in these discussions and can provide a technical input to prepare for WRC-12 please contact us via
http://www.iaru-r1.org/index.php?option=com_qcontacts&
view=category&catid=35&Itemid=82

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

CEPT
http://www.cept.org/

European Communications Office
http://www.ero.dk/