News
WRC-15 – Day-11 – start of Week-3
Progress is slow but steady… 5MHz: The 5 MHz item has cleared another hurdle and hopefully it will be tabled at a Plenary meeting scheduled for Wednesday, when it will receive two readings. The approval of the last reading is a key milestone, subject of course to the final signing and national administration processes. 50MHz: […]
WRC-15 – Day-10 – end of Week-2
A quiet day in comparison to recent days saw progress for a number of amateur service associated agenda items. Future Proposals (AI-10): The 50 MHz proposal that was approved at drafting group level suffered a minor setback when presented to working group 6B. Iran insisted that a footnote concerning their usage of frequencies at 50 […]
RadCom December 2015, Vol. 91, No. 12
THIS EDITION IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE ONLINE We apologise for any disappointment This edition is currently being converted to our HTML5 online viewer, which will bring enhanced readability, download speed and picture quality News and Reports 6 RSGB Matters Inspiring clubs, subscriptions unchanged, Construction Competition winners, G5RP and ROTAB trophy winners, Ofcom licence guidance, recognising and […]
WRC-15 News
Lengthy negotiations are ongoing at World Radio Conference in Geneva on a wide range of agenda items. Regarding 5MHz, a compromise position based on a 15kHz wide contiguous secondary allocation for all three ITU regions has been provisionally reached. However, this still faces opposition in its path to formal approval. Even if it happens, the […]
Changes to PMR
Ofcom has decided to amend the existing Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 licence exemption criteria for some wireless devices including Personal Mobile Radio, or PMR 446. Ofcom has expanded the frequency band and technology choice slightly but also introduced restrictions on abuse and enforcement as well as better receiver standards. You can read the statement on […]
ISS update
A 3.8m dish is being loaned to the ARISS project by Satellite Catapult at Goonhilly and it will be used to track the ISS and provide real time video during the schools contacts scheduled for early next year. Last week, G8GTZ, M0AEU and G3VZV installed a PC with Minitioune software and a DB6NT downconverter to […]
