INTERNATIONAL IARU
Important Amateur Radio issues being discussed at meetings in Geneva.
The long journey to the next World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC
07) has started with a meeting of the Working Party 8A of the Radiocommunications
Study Groups of the ITU from September 6th to 15th, with two important
amateur radio questions under discussion.
The first is an IARU proposal for a new amateur band from
135.7-137.8 kHz. This proposal is moving forward well, and
it appears that there will be support for a new world wide
allocation at the next World Radio Conference in 2007.
The second is a proposal from the short wave broadcasting community
for up to 850 kHz more spectrum between 4 and 10 MHz. If approved, the
spectrum would have to be given up by other users, namely the fixed, mobile,
the amateur radio service and the radio navigation service. None of these
are interested in giving up spectrum. The discussions are well along,
but there is no solution in sight.
For both of the above items, amateurs from Canada, the USA, the UK,
and Japan are actively participating. Amateurs from many other countries
are also present but active in other areas.
Later in September, and during much of October, these same issues, as
well as matters related to BPL, will be discussed by other groups with
different points of view.
In all of these meetings, Ken Pulfer VE3PU will be attending on behalf
of the IARU, and will also be a member of the Canadian delegation. He
has agreed to provide the RAC web site with news reports as the meetings
progress.
Source: Wireless
Institute of Australia
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