WRC-07 IARU Region 1 final report now available

The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) report on WRC-07 can now be downloaded from the Region 1 website.

The report had this to say regarding 7 and 5 MHz:

Agenda item 1.13: It came as no surprise that the IARU objective of expansion of the existing amateur band at 7 MHz to achieve a worldwide primary allocation of 300 kHz had no support from administrations. Importantly, the Region 2 allocation of 7200-7300 kHz could have been in jeopardy. During preparations for the conference we had managed to avoid proposals for its reallocation to another service, and this favorable situation was maintained throughout the conference.

A 5 MHz secondary allocation was not achieved at WRC-07, nor was the issue placed on the agenda of a future conference. There was strong opposition from most regional groups to protect their fixed and mobile (government / military) services in the band 5260-5410 kHz. Besides the opponents’ fears of losing access to fixed and mobile spectrum because of amateur operation, there was particular concern that there is incompatibility between automatic link establishment (ALE) systems and amateur operations not using ALE. This concern could not be satisfied simply by making the amateur service secondary; at the current state of ALE technology the occupancy of a channel by any user – primary, secondary or unauthorized – denies its use to stations using ALE.

The full report can be downloaded from

http://www.iaru-r1.org/WRC-07%20Meeting%20Report%20final.doc

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

IARU Website
http://www.iaru.org/