 WRC-07
- ERO report on second week
The European Radiocommunications Office (ERO) has published
a report on the second week of the World Radiocommunications Conference
(WRC-07).
Agenda Item 1.13 deals with the HF bands between 4 MHz and 10 MHz, the
ERO report says:
During the second week of the Conference the detailed discussions on
agenda item 1.13 started.
CEPT has given a detailed introduction of the European
common proposals and this led into an enormous amount of opposition from
all the other regional organisations.
It could be noted that the opposition was well organised, however speaking
to individual countries seems to lead to more understanding of our proposals
and even support.
As there was no progress, the chairman of the sub-working group on 1.13
proposed a compromise to the meeting, which was not accepted.
After that, CEPT has offered a compromise to the meeting in going back
from 350 kHz additional spectrum for HF broadcasting to 200 kHz and even
this offer was not acceptable for the other regions as they do not want
additional spectrum for HFBC.
Due to the deadlock in the discussions, at the end of the week there
were two informal meetings to investigate the possibility of a compromise.
The chairman Committee 4 made an attempt to make progress. As by many
regional organisations, the CEPT proposals on Resolution 351 (review Appendix
17 for the maritime service) were connected to the additional spectrum
for broadcasting, it was only agreed that an informal working group should
start the work on Appendix 17 as this is a very detailed and time consuming
work. This informal work was immediately started to avoid that the meeting
would get in time constraints once the decision is taken on the additional
spectrum for broadcasting.
Also on the highest level of the Conference, during an informal meeting,
chaired by the chairman of the Conference, no further divergence of opinions
was possible.
In the sub-working group on 1.13, it was decided to provide two options
to the higher level of the Conference as the group itself was not able
to resolve the issue.
The coming week will be of major importance on deciding “go or
no go” on additional spectrum for broadcasting in the HF band.
Agenda item 1.15 relates to a proposed secondary allocation to the Amateur
Service in the frequency band 135.7-137.8 kHz, ERO say
A revised document on frequency allocation table of Article 5 for the
130-160 kHz band was approved by WG4C and submitted to COM4. To satisfy
the Arab countries, who argued for NOC, a footnote with their country
names has also been agreed.
The full report can be downloaded from
http://www.ero.dk/28871CD8-040C-4B97-B3E0-2A7D0E96BD17?frames=no&
For other WRC-07 related documents on the ERO website follow these steps:
1. Go to the ERO home page http://www.ero.dk/
2. Under “ECC Activities” select “Meeting Documents”
3. In “Select Group:” choose “Conference Preparatory
Group”
4. In “Select Year:” choose “CPG-2007”
Related URL’s
WRC-07 - ERO report on first week
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/november2007/wrc07_first_week.htm
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