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News from Geneva 4 November
Date : 04 / 11 / 2015
Author : Dale Hughes - VK1DSH
The 2015 World Radiocommunications Conference commenced on Monday morning at 11 AM.
Over 3800 delegates from 162 ITU member countries and 136 ITU sector members are
meeting for the next four weeks to discuss a wide range of radio communications
issues including several of direct relevance to amateurs.
The outcome of these discussions is a revision of the ITU Radio Regulations
which in an international treaty covering most aspects of communications between
8.3 kHz and 275 GHz.
The amateur service is represented at WRC-15 by amateurs who are members of
national delegations as well as representatives of the International Amateur
Radio Union.
Topics of interest to amateurs include agenda item 1.4 which is a proposal
to allocate a new secondary allocation to the amateur service around
5300 kHz as well as agenda item 1.18 which covers a proposed new allocation
for vehicle radar systems between 77.5 and 78 GHz that is an existing primary
amateur allocation.
There are also other issues which require some consideration by the amateur
delegates and it is important that amateurs are able to contribute and be
part of these discussions.
Progress on the various agenda items starts with the formalities of
approval of chairman of the working and sub-working groups, creation of
working groups assigned to each agenda item and document introduction by
contributing delegates.
These are important steps in beginning the sometimes difficult or delicate
negotiations that are required before most changes to the radio regulations
can be made.
The actual work of studying each of the input contributions and developing
consensus positions is done by sub-working groups who deal with individual
agenda items.
For amateurs, the most challenging issue will be AI 1.4 where there is
strong opposition to a new secondary HF allocation.
Work has begun on this issue and will continue over the coming days and weeks.
For most agenda items it will take some time before any firm conclusions
are reached as the issues are complex.
(Sourced from the WIA Website)
http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2015/20151104-1/index.php
(Posted to the Packet Radio Network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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