Special Focus
WRC-12 Day 8 – 30 January 2012 – An allocation or no allocation?
Meetings, followed by meetings, followed by meetings. Starting at 8.30am and, with short breaks for lunch and coffee, the final meeting of the day finished around 7pm. Already, the sub working group dealing with the 500kHz issue has met for an extra session, with yet another scheduled for tomorrow. Iran remains firmly opposed to an […]
WRC-12 Day 7—29 January 2012—Sunday working
After intense discussions during this Sunday meeting, a drafting group produced a document that lays out the positions of those administrations both for an allocation and those against an allocation at 472-479kHz to the amateur service. The document will now be discussed again in sub-working group 4C3 on Monday to try and find a way […]
WRC-12 Day 5—27 January 2012—Progress
Progress was made with a compromise proposal on agenda item 1.23, drafted to take into consideration the views of those for and those against an amateur service allocation around 500kHz. This proposal suggests a 7kHz segment between 472-479kHz, very close to the CEPT position of 472-480kHz. Initial indications are that this could be acceptable to […]
WRC-12 Day 4 – 26th January 2012 – Progress?
The first meeting of the sub working group on agenda item 1.23 took place during the morning session but little formal progress was made. Meanwhile ‘corridor meetings’ took place to try and find a way forward. As a result of these discussions, a small group met to consolidate the 12 input documents reflecting the views […]
WRC-12 Day 3 – An uphill struggle on 500kHz
Colin, G3PSM reports. Continuing on the same theme as yesterday, a sub working group meeting was held in the morning of 25 January. Russia is maintaining its opposition to the various 500kHz proposal, based on “possible” interference to the existing aeronautical radionavigation service. Despite persuasive arguments to the contrary from Australia, Canada, UK, and US […]
WRC-12 Day 2 – 500kHz work commences for Colin, G3PSM
From the amateur service aspect the hard work of the conference started today, Wednesday 25 January. Early discussions in sub working group 4C3 (the 500kHz proposal) focussed on developing a work-plan, however, a minority led by Russia, Iran and China centred around whether an allocation should even be considered and, if it were, how incumbent […]
