ITU-R Study Group 1 Working Parties meet in Munich

Volunteer IARU Technical Representative Ken Pulfer, VE3PU represented the IARU at meetings of the ITU Radiocommunication Sector's Working Parties (WP) 1A and 1B in Munich, Germany October 9-13. (WP 1C also met, but its agenda did not require IARU participation.)

WP 1A dealt with two topics of direct interest to the Amateur Radio Service:
Interference from Power Line Telecommunication Systems (variously known as BPL, PLC or PLT) and a study of possible allocations above 275 GHz. Topics considered by WP 1B included Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio.

All of these topics may be described as "works in progress" within Study Group 1.

With regard to BPL, Ken reports: "The updated Working Document towards a Preliminary Draft New Recommendation is a definite improvement over what was produced last year, but still requires more work. It attempts to provide guidance to administrations dealing with domestic BPL installations that may cause interference to radiocommunications services, and at the same time notes the Report that gives examples of such interference. The current (still very rough) version of the Draft Report is a compendium of input documents, or extracts from input documents, including examples of interference measurements provided by Brazil, the North American Broadcasters Association, and CBS."

Work on the Draft Report will continue in a Correspondence Group, which has been asked to produce an updated version of the report for the next meeting of WP 1A next June.

The IARU will be participating actively in the Correspondence Group in order to ensure that the document includes the protection requirements for the Amateur Radio Service.

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