Amateur Radio featured in ITU news magazine
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) news
magazine features an article on Amateur Radio.
The article written by Larry Price W4RA President of
the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) points out that:
"Thousands of telecommunication professionals trace the beginnings
of their careers to the exploration of the radio spectrum that was made
possible by their early involvement in amateur radio."
Larry highlights the four key issues of interest to the Amateur Radio
and Amateur Satellite Services:
- Harmonization of frequency allocations
• reduction and avoidance of country footnotes that reduce the availability
of bands that are allocated internationally to radio amateurs.
- Maintaining and extending allocations
• maintain the allocation of 7200–7300 kHz in Region 2 and to extend
this allocation to Regions 1 and 3
• in support of disaster mitigation and relief, a worldwide secondary
allocation of 150 kHz is sought in the frequency range just above 5 MHz
- Secondary allocation in the low-frequency range
• a secondary allocation to the amateur service in the frequency band
135.7–137.8 kHz
- Proposals for the WRC in 2011
• an allocation to the amateur service in the range 50–54 MHz in
Region 1, in order to harmonize this allocation among the three Regions;
• allocation of the band 495–510 kHz to the amateur service on a
secondary or primary basis; permitting the development of reliable groundwave
systems for disaster relief and providing spectrum for digital signal
processing experimentation;
• continued access for amateurs to frequencies at regular intervals above
275 GHz as allocations and protections for other services. (One option
is to provide specific allocations to the amateur services of relatively
narrow, primary bands adjacent to wider, secondary bands);
• in any review of HF allocations, consideration of the expansion of the
amateur bands near 10, 14 and 18 MHz, in order to better accommodate increased
activity.
The full article can be seen in the ITU News Magazine at
http://www.itu.int/itunews/
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