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IARU gears up for the WRC-15
Date : 29 / 10 / 2015
Author : Jim Linton - VK3PC
Delegations are heading to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
World Radiocommunications Conference, and there will be a strong team from
the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU).
The ITU conference is in Geneva, Switzerland on November 2 to 27.
In a book the ITU describes WRC-15 as a new landmark for the radiocommunication
world and the use of satellites.
The ITU has acknowledged the close cooperation it has with the International
Amateur Radio Union (IARU) - founded in Paris 1925, and the recognised
spokesman for the Amateur Radio community. Delegates will consider several
items of interest to the Amateur Service and the Amateur Satellite Service.
The WRC-15 agenda includes Item 1.4, which has the possibility of
allocating an appropriate amount of spectrum to the Amateur Service on
a secondary basis within the band 5250-5450 kHz.
The IARU describes the potential new band as being “a high priority for
the amateur serviceö, but is not over-confident of getting the new
secondary allocation, as there is some opposition. The IARU-team has
18 members and includes Dale Hughes VK1DSH, partly funded by the WIA and IARU.
About 10 of them are with their WRC-15 country-based delegation.
As co-lead are the IARU President Tim Ellam VE6SH and Vice-President
Ole Garpestad LA2RR.
Tim VE6SH said there had been enormous preparation by the IARU,
and its member societies, which includes being active at numerous preparatory
meetings held throughout the world.
He said the IARU team will make their best effort for a possible allocation
to Amateur Service near 5 MHz, and watch other developments that may
impinge on the Amateur Service and Amateur Satellite Service.
On the 5 MHz band proposal, before the WRC-15 several major countries,
including Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America,
view a wide allocation as too generous.
Tim VE6SH said there had been enormous preparation by the IARU, and its
member societies, which includes being active at numerous preparatory
meetings held throughout the world.
The IARU will host a function on November 10 with all at the WRC-15 being
invited to attend. It will also have an emergency communications display
trailer on November 8-14, with IARU International Coordinator for Emergency
Communications, Hans Zimmermann HB9AQS.
The trailer-mounted display will have equipment showing the voice,
text and image mode capabilities for emergency communications,
plus a mobile antenna.
Specialist German club 'Notfunk Deutschland' (Emergency Radio Germany),
in agreement with the IARU Member Society, Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
(DARC), will have posters and other material provided by it and several
IARU member societies.
Hans HB9AQS, with help of the three IARU regional emergency communication
coordinators, has produced a single page in various languages as a
hand-out at the display.
(Sourced from the WIA Website)
http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2015/20151029-1/index.php
(Posted to the Packet Radio Network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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