Special Focus
WRC-15 – Day-5, End of Week-1
Agenda Item 1.4 (5 MHz): Some progress was made during the course of the Friday morning session. The various African organisations agreed to merge their proposal resulting in a proposal of 100 Watts between 5350-5400 kHz which will be considered alongside other proposals. Unfortunately other administrations are refusing to move from their position for a […]
WRC-15 – Day-4
Agenda Item 1.4 (5 MHz) continues to occupy the time of the IARU and national society delegates attending. Intensive debate centred around the amount of spectrum required and power limitations, with a very wide divergence of views – the former ranging from 15 to 100 kHz, the latter between 0.1W and 200 Watts (as well […]
WRC-15 – Day-3
Mainly a day of frustrations for all concerned, but slow progress was made with Agenda Item 1.4 (5 MHz). The proposal from CITEL, representing a number of American States, was reduced to align with the CEPT proposal for 100 kHz, while the Arab Spectrum Management Group also agreed Group also agreed to increase their proposal […]
WRC-15 – Initial Sessions, inc. 5 MHz
As expected Agenda Item 1.4 (5 MHz) provoked much discussion and little progress was made. A total of 16 proposals and one information paper were introduced and every paper not containing a No Change (NOC) proposal was objected to by a certain administration. At the end of the second meeting session it was decided that […]
WRC-15 Day 1+2 – Colin sets the Scene…
WRC-15 has started. Colin Thomas G3PSM is attending as part of the UK Delegation. IARU observers are also present and are under no illusions regarding the challenge ahead. The conference opened on Monday Nov-2 and will run until Nov-27. Overall 3,800 delegates, an increase of 1,000 over WRC-12, representing 162 administrations and 136 organisations are registered […]
Preparation for WRC-15
IARU Region 1 reports good progress was made at the final European preparation meeting for the World Radio Conference that will be held in November. For 5MHz, CEPT have agreed that the overall range should be 5350-5450kHz, though opposition at the conference is still expected. However, this is not likely to result in any changes […]
