Spectrum requirements for the Amateur Services

Revised requirements for the Amateur and Amateur-satellite Services are now available on the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) website.

Among the requirements are:

- Expansion of the Amateur and Amateur-satellite Services allocation at 18068-18168 kHz to one of 250 kHz bandwidth

- Expansion of the Amateur and Amateur-satellite Services allocation at 24890-24990 kHz to one of 250 kHz bandwidth

- A harmonised allocation at 50 MHz for the Amateur-satellite Service to bridge the gap between 28 MHz and 144 MHz.

- Expansion of the existing band 435-438 MHz which is heavily used by unmanned amateur satellites and Amateurs on manned space stations.

- Deletion of the "Earth-to-space only" restriction for 1260-1270 MHz

- 75 GHz of spectrum in the band 275-1000 GHz for the Amateur Services

- A 15 kHz allocation around 500 kHz

- A 150 kHz allocation near 5 MHz

The document notes that a growing concern is the proliferation of low power devices in the ISM band 433.05-434.79 MHz (centre frequency 433.92 MHz) permitted in some European countries under RR No. 5.280.

Read the full document 'Spectrum Requirements for the Amateur and Amateur-satellite Services' at
http://www.iaru.org/ac-09spec.pdf

International Amateur Radio Union (IARU)
http://www.iaru.org/